Public Smoking Ban In The UK

Smoking is a major income to the governing body it brings in ab stripeed forbidden(p) 10 billion pounds annually. The government has proceeded to raise the value come in of tobacco above the inflation rate from 1993 to the present day, this was implemented to help reduce consumption further.This policy has resulted that tax on tobacco in the UK is amongst the steepest in the world and far fore of any of those in other EU member states. For example the worth of a typical pack of cigarettes in the UK is latestly 5.54, whilst in Belgium the legal injury is about 2.70 and in Latvia they retail at a mere 42p.The personify to the NHS of take in related illnesses is generally not believed to outweigh the income the government makes out of tobacco sales.The government is being very hypocritical of themselves beca social function a heavy(a) amount of everyday money comes from the tax of cigarettes but at the same time the government is trying to stop great deal form fume by banning plenty to smoke in public places and likewise with adverts on television urging people to stop bullet.There has been a lot of opposition to the heater ban of which the arguments bring in been that the ban ordain be disastrous to small pubs that rely on smokers to keep their transmission line afloat. Small pub landlords brace said that they will loose resilient trade from people who normally go out to the pub to have a smoke and a pint who nowadays will cheque at home instead and smoke and drink there. A knock on effect of the economic down turn is perceived to be a loss of jobs across the industry and rising pub prices as landlords would have no choice but to subsidise their loss of telephone line by increasing prices. The closure of pubs would ultimately result in a lack of choice for the customer.People who are still against the ban point alternative methods of how to reduce the health impact of passive sens.The introduction of the use of ventilation is regar ded by some as an adequate solution on its own. Some respondents are strongly of the opinion that ventilation removes all the harmful effects of take from the air.Designated smoking areas in public places are have previously been used before the smoking ban came into effect in various shopping malls, restaurants and clubs. People did not complain about these smoking areas, of which people who wanted to smoke could do so inside out of the way of other people who did not want to smoke.People against the smoking ban argue that separate designated smoking areas with good ventilation is a better alternative then banning smoking in public places altogether.The government doesnt want to stop there with banning smoking. They have some banned the rights of people to smoke in their own car. The impartiality now states that if the driver is smoking and does not have full control of the fomite the driver can be prosecuted for smoking while driving. This is an extension of the current law wh ich is that the driver must have full control of the fomite at all times. What I do not at a lower placestand is that wherefore the government feels that they now have to have a separate law to cover smoking while driving, does that not as well as come under the law that states that the driver must have full control of the vehicle at all times?There have now also been talks that a law is trying to be passed to stop adults smoking in their own vehicle while a child is present, is this on the button saying to the nation that they cannot look after their own children?Ibi from Birmingham have in minds that banning smoking is a way for the government to take all of our fun away. This seems ok but doesnt anybody else worry about this being a slippery slope. First, no smoking in public places, then no smoking at all, then no drinking, no shouting, no laughing, no talking and no fun. And once this is all done they will find something else to ban. And im a non smoker.Howard prat Dell from Chelmsford watchs that the money made by the government from smokers is too high to ignore the rights of one of its biggest money makers. I do not agree with a pith ban on smoking. It is my right to smoke and the government make a considerable amount of money from my smoking through taxes which easily pays for any health bell tot he NHS.Colin McEwan from Edinburgh agrees that the smoking ban could have bigger economic consequences than we think. The Scottish government is drawing off its own regulations regarding smoking and seems to be bent on a total ban. This, in my view is a step too far at this time. I work in Ireland where such a ban has, I believe, reduced pub sales substantially in some areas and has cost some jobs. I have no issue with the argument that people must not be subjected to passive smoking. But the alternatives, such as designated smoking areas with proper ventilation have not been properly considered. for sure it will be difficult to implement proper ly but the criminalise it everywhere brigade does not seem to be interested in the system of logic only the principle.The smoking ban seams to be supported by many more non-smokers than smokers. I think that because smokers are a minority here, the legal age have won their case outright. There seams to be more qualified alternative methods than the banning of smoking in public places completely.I think that the banning of smoking in public places was a policy desexualise up by the government to try and win the votes of the majority of people because people had lost faith in the current government because of the presently unsuccessful invasion of Iraq.