icegas
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Post by icegas on Sept 2, 2024 12:19:49 GMT
I suspect they'll do what happens already in the children's play areas I've witnessed, just stand the other side of the fence, not really further away. I'm a non smoker too, I've lost close family to smoking related illnesses and nearly lost a few others. Anything that moves smoke and vapes further away from my family, the better. There is no need to ban, but I'd support further distancing. Banning tobacco would be counter productive. Pricing, education and no advertising is the way. Including vapes These Vapes seem like a different beast tho...People who use them some how class themselves as none smoker's...which I find odd.🥴 I fine someone using them far more annoying then a traditional smoker. In fact, yesterday my friend asked me to buy him a packed of fags from Tescos while I was there.Benson and hedges, the were £14 for twenty..and I saw people vaping in the store. I remember around 2012 buying fags for my ex Girlfriend's mum also, and they were only £5/£6 at the time.
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Post by oldie on Sept 2, 2024 12:40:27 GMT
Banning tobacco would be counter productive. Pricing, education and no advertising is the way. Including vapes These Vapes seem like a different beast tho...People who use them some how class themselves as none smoker's...which I find odd.🥴 I fine someone using them far more annoying then a traditional smoker. In fact, yesterday my friend asked me to buy him a packed of fags from Tescos while I was there.Benson and hedges, the were £14 for twenty..and I saw people vaping in the store. I remember around 2012 buying fags for my ex Girlfriend's mum also, and they were only £5/£6 at the time. "I remember around 2012 buying fags for my ex Girlfriend's mum also, and they were only £5/£6 at the time." It was a right wing plot to raise money🤔😂😂
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Post by baldrick on Sept 2, 2024 12:41:14 GMT
Banning tobacco would be counter productive. Pricing, education and no advertising is the way. Including vapes These Vapes seem like a different beast tho...People who use them some how class themselves as none smoker's...which I find odd.🥴 I fine someone using them far more annoying then a traditional smoker. In fact, yesterday my friend asked me to buy him a packed of fags from Tescos while I was there.Benson and hedges, the were £14 for twenty..and I saw people vaping in the store. I remember around 2012 buying fags for my ex Girlfriend's mum also, and they were only £5/£6 at the time. For all the thoughts behind the pictures being a deterrent, what they should do is have prints of £10 notes on the actual cigarette paper.
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Post by lostinspace on Sept 2, 2024 12:41:46 GMT
Was in a queue of traffic several days ago, I had to check if I wasn't on an old steam railway line...the amount of ' vape smoke/ steam ' coming from some car windows was incredible, certainly wouldn't like to have been in any of those vehicles
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oldie
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Post by oldie on Sept 2, 2024 12:43:33 GMT
Was in a queue of traffic several days ago, I had to check if I wasn't on an old steam railway line...the amount of ' vape smoke/ steam ' coming from some car windows was incredible, certainly wouldn't like to have been in any of those vehicles After 14 years of austerity people cannot afford to fix their exhausts...ðŸ¤
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Post by baselswh on Sept 2, 2024 12:58:00 GMT
Easy Way To Stop Smoking by Allen Carr.
Recommended.
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icegas
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Post by icegas on Sept 2, 2024 13:11:19 GMT
These Vapes seem like a different beast tho...People who use them some how class themselves as none smoker's...which I find odd.🥴 I fine someone using them far more annoying then a traditional smoker. In fact, yesterday my friend asked me to buy him a packed of fags from Tescos while I was there.Benson and hedges, the were £14 for twenty..and I saw people vaping in the store. I remember around 2012 buying fags for my ex Girlfriend's mum also, and they were only £5/£6 at the time. "I remember around 2012 buying fags for my ex Girlfriend's mum also, and they were only £5/£6 at the time." It was a right wing plot to raise money🤔😂😂 Yes, in order to pay for all those illegals coming in...😂😘 🙈😎😂
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trymer
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Post by trymer on Sept 3, 2024 16:05:54 GMT
I can understand people using vapes to stop smoking tobacco but I dont understand anyone taking up vaping who has never smoked,maybe they see it a safer option ? I would support a total ban on tobacco,tell anyone caught selling it on the black market that they will get a £10,000 fine and their shop shut for 6 months for a first offence and watch the habit die overnight. I am sure that most people dying of smoking related issues wish that they had never started smoking,secondary smoking is an issue and smokers take up hospital beds and costs the NHS billions. Would people who support smokers 'rights' like to see the regulations on the use of asbestos dropped ?...after all it should be a 'right' to die of asbestosis.
Surely its a governments duty to protect the public ? all harmful substances should be banned where possible,asbestos,heroin,tobacco,alcohol,junk foods with excessive fat / sugar are all unnecessary and the public would be healthier if they were banned....
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Cheshiregas
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Post by Cheshiregas on Sept 4, 2024 21:47:28 GMT
It is becoming very trendy amongst younger people especially at high school to vape. My grandson is 12 and has been offered vapes by kids of 14 to 16. Luckily enough he hates the idea of smoking or vaping but it is a serious concern to his mum.
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trymer
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Post by trymer on Sept 14, 2024 9:19:37 GMT
Labour to ban junk food advertising...the least they could possibly do whilst getting headlines for it. About time a proper investigation into the nations health was done including finding out much time and money the NHS has to spend on smoking/alcohol/drugs/obesity,all of which are unnecessary. People getting junk food delivered to their doorstep by deliveroo etc,the fatties cant even burn calories going to the chip shop now,so expensive too,but they cant be arsed to cook a cheaper meal with vegetables (which are cheap) living on junk food is an expensive and health damaging lifestyle choice....cheaper to eat healthy and join a gym, my weekly gym memberships (for 2 gyms) is less than cod and chips once a week.
How about copying other countries and banning the sale of alcoholic drinks over 2% or 3% from being sold in supermarkets, stronger drinks would be sold from government run 'alcohol shops' and ID would have to be produced to buy booze ? the incovenience would probably stop some people from drinking so much.
The Simpsons was funny but there seem to be part of our society that think that being a couch potato,eating junk food like Homer is a good idea,boozing/smoking and taking drugs are optional extras.
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trymer
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Post by trymer on Sept 18, 2024 21:15:17 GMT
Radio 4 today,talking about obesity (again) and the possibility of peoples Tesco cards being used to monitor what food you buy so that they can tell you if you are consuming too much junk food or too much salt.
I dont know why they dont introduce taxes on sugar,junk food etc, increase the taxes on alcohol like they did with tobacco, maybe make smokers,boozers and fatties pay a higher rate of national insurance ?
Get MPs to set an example,suspend overweight unfit MPs until they get themselves sorted out.
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Cheshiregas
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Post by Cheshiregas on Sept 18, 2024 21:44:30 GMT
Radio 4 today,talking about obesity (again) and the possibility of peoples Tesco cards being used to monitor what food you buy so that they can tell you if you are consuming too much junk food or too much salt. I dont know why they dont introduce taxes on sugar,junk food etc, increase the taxes on alcohol like they did with tobacco, maybe make smokers,boozers and fatties pay a higher rate of national insurance ? Get MPs to set an example,suspend overweight unfit MPs until they get themselves sorted out. Tesco, like many supermarkets, love their loyalty cards. In fairness, a lot of people being treated for heart issues are significantly overweight so a tax on sugar, junk food, takeaways, etc might not be a bad idea to be honest. As long as it is used on the NHS and not MPs expenses!
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Post by bluetornados on Sept 18, 2024 22:55:55 GMT
Radio 4 today,talking about obesity (again) and the possibility of peoples Tesco cards being used to monitor what food you buy so that they can tell you if you are consuming too much junk food or too much salt. I dont know why they dont introduce taxes on sugar,junk food etc, increase the taxes on alcohol like they did with tobacco, maybe make smokers,boozers and fatties pay a higher rate of national insurance ? Get MPs to set an example,suspend overweight unfit MPs until they get themselves sorted out. OMG, What would that wonderful, upstanding, Rochdale MP Cyril Smith have said about this ?
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