This feels very much like Sunak reaching for a “legacy”, but I hope it does get through. A disgusting and selfish habit.
One day Governments will leave people alone and stop interfering in their lives.
Tobacco-free within ten years feels like quite a tough target to aim for!
Here’s hoping.
Everyone’s in here talking about personal choice.
Whose personal choice? You want to light up after a busy day, I want the millions spent treating lung cancer to be spent on brain tumours, luekemia or genetic illnesses.
When the personal choices of the minority start to conflict with the personal choices of the majority, a democratic society chooses the majority opinion.
And if you feel that your opinions are the majority opinion in Scotland, or that you’d rather not live in a nanny state, you are free to run for office on that platform.
If you’re actually in the majority, you’ll have no problem proving it because we do live in an incredibly free society that gives you that right.
Being told what we can and can’t do to our own bodies has always been such a strange concept to me
I think the selective nature of substance consumption is absolutely baffling to me.
Obesity and the proliferation of ultra-processed foods contribute a higher % of deaths and strain on the NHS than smoking. It’s not to deny the harm smoking has had and continues to have, but just as in people are shamed and denied to opportunity to have a cig, why should people be allowed to have deep-fried, ultra processed everything without question?
The selective outrage concerning the banning of substances smacks of a holier than thou attitude. If people have this selective individualised mentality towards a NATIONAL health service, then that’s prime for private, individualised health.
If people don’t want to deal with the effects of smokers on the NHS, then the obvious logical repercussions, of not wanting to deal with obesity and it’s damaging results, creates a bubble of individual mentality rather than the socialised healthcare we currently have.
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This feels very much like Sunak reaching for a “legacy”, but I hope it does get through. A disgusting and selfish habit.
One day Governments will leave people alone and stop interfering in their lives.
Tobacco-free within ten years feels like quite a tough target to aim for!
Here’s hoping.
Everyone’s in here talking about personal choice.
Whose personal choice? You want to light up after a busy day, I want the millions spent treating lung cancer to be spent on brain tumours, luekemia or genetic illnesses.
When the personal choices of the minority start to conflict with the personal choices of the majority, a democratic society chooses the majority opinion.
And if you feel that your opinions are the majority opinion in Scotland, or that you’d rather not live in a nanny state, you are free to run for office on that platform.
If you’re actually in the majority, you’ll have no problem proving it because we do live in an incredibly free society that gives you that right.
Being told what we can and can’t do to our own bodies has always been such a strange concept to me
I think the selective nature of substance consumption is absolutely baffling to me.
Obesity and the proliferation of ultra-processed foods contribute a higher % of deaths and strain on the NHS than smoking. It’s not to deny the harm smoking has had and continues to have, but just as in people are shamed and denied to opportunity to have a cig, why should people be allowed to have deep-fried, ultra processed everything without question?
The selective outrage concerning the banning of substances smacks of a holier than thou attitude. If people have this selective individualised mentality towards a NATIONAL health service, then that’s prime for private, individualised health.
If people don’t want to deal with the effects of smokers on the NHS, then the obvious logical repercussions, of not wanting to deal with obesity and it’s damaging results, creates a bubble of individual mentality rather than the socialised healthcare we currently have.