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Originally Posted by Julian
What about babies/young children that live there?  |
Like I said: where it's not going to harm others
I'm assuming it's not the babies/young children that are the ones smoking, mind you
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Originally Posted by Mr Angry
Suffice to say we could argue the legal merits of this for weeks but there is little point.
I too agree with the ban. One interesting analogy I would point to is that since the introduction of the law here in NI several months ago I'm unaware of anyone or any business, whatsoever, having been prosecuted for non-compliance.
Optimists and the health conscious might assume that this is because the entire population of NI are law abiding citizens, however cynics will point out that there is no means of enforcement in place nor does the legislative body have any visable / legally viable plan to establish or delegate any such enforcement.
Plus ca change.
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And pragmatists might say that where the ban is being broken, it's been done in a surreptitious way where no one who's not a smoker is going to be affected, so everyone's happy.
I'm an optimistic pragmatist, see