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Plans to ban smoking outside hospitals and schools in England (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 4 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 51 minutes ago (2 children)

Hard disagree. Fuck off nanny state.

Ban smoking with proven second hand smoke inhalation effects - sure, incredible overreach but at least there's some semblance of logic, but vaping?

Just...Why? After 20 years of being studied every which way still no negative health effects at all have been found, not first-hand, not second-hand, but what has been found is that it's an extremely good smoking cessation device that actually gets people to stop smoking.

Nah fuck off, bus stops were bad enough but good luck enforcing this, everybody still puffing away at every bus stop and more and more just brazenly on trains and not about to stop anytime soon. Bad enough that not allowing vaping in restaurants/cinemas/cafes/bars is going to utterly obliterate the high street.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 minutes ago

Where does it say they want to ban vaping outside schools & hospitals? This is specifically about smoking.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 minutes ago

I know quite a few people who started vaping, but then smoking as well. Their logic seems really backwards to me, but what do I know...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I smoked cigarettes for 30 years. I say this is a good thing to do and far overdue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 minutes ago

Ditto and ditto

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 hours ago

Typical nanny state

My house isn't inside a school or a hospital, therefore I can't even smoke in my own home. Absolutely raging.