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Old 02-04-2006, 14:20   #146
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Re: Blanket Smoking Ban

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Originally Posted by jambutty
This smoking ban is more about controlling the public’s activities than for health reasons. It also puts citizen against citizen and whilst we argue it out the government quietly gets about its business of doing what it wants and in general that is not what we want.

The next step a few years down the line will be the banning of private internal combustion vehicles for the masses on the grounds of passive breathing in of vehicle fumes and global warming.

We are galloping towards the Big Brother scenario or the way that the masses were depicted in Soylent Green and Blade Runner.
I agree with your first paragraph, but your second and third are the result of reading and watching too many sci-fi storys!
Next time you go to your Doctor ask for stronger tablets, (they work for me).

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