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Old 31-10-2005, 15:20   #567
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Re: smoking and the pub

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Originally Posted by Pierre
If the Government spent money on all of those things then they would save lives.

They could ban cars in town centres to stop the passive intake of car fumes, quite easily just make it so that anyone driving into a citry centre has to have an electric car.

But they target the perceived threat of passive smoking

I don't see where there is a difference, if they were to announce a series of initiatives where they were to address all of the carcinogens in the atmosphere then I would support a total smoking ban. But they're not.

There is even little hard evidence on the effects of "passive smoke" but there is hard evidence on the effects of lead and other heavy elements that are kicked out into the atmospshere every day and little is done.
Raising other issues is just a diversionary tactic. Yes more should be done to reduce air pollution, especially given the major rise in respiratory diseases, but that doesn't mean smokers should be allowed to pollute enclosed public spaces.
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