End Tobacco Smoking by 2025?

[JOHN72]

End tobacco smoking by 2025?

Geoff Riley
9th September 2008
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Could we end the smoking of tobacco in the Uk within a generation. On first glance it looks like one of those utterly grandiose targets that New Labour used to launch (and re-launch) such as abolishing Child Poverty by 2020. But this ultra-ambitious target comes from the Royal College of Physicians who argue that radical measures are needed to curb smoking. They argue that “The primary objective of regulation of smoked tobacco should be to make smoking and smoked tobacco products as unappealing, unattractive, unaffordable and unavailable as possible, as quickly as possible.”
The measures include:
Increase the tax on tobacco by 10% every year
License tobacco retailers and prohibit the sale of smoked tobacco in premises where children are admitted
Crack down on tobacco smuggling, and apply Class A drug penalties for tobacco smuggling and under-age sale
Encourage sale of low cost single day nicotine packs, available from any retail outlet
Permanently exempt medicinal nicotine from VAT
Provide free medicinal nicotine for all smokers on the NHS, not just those on a smoking cessation programme
What do you think?


EDIT: Removed Link from Article.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

Mucho no bueno..

 

[anotherbob]

sounds like the suggestions of doctors. And guess what that's what it is their suggestion. Makes sense from a public health perspective. Totally disagree but not sure there is anything to be angry about.

 

[JOHN72]

Mucho no bueno..

Or more............????

 

[Chasing Embers]

The W.H.O. wants tobacco usage ended by 2030.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

the who?

 

[captainsousie]

the who?

The band right?

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

The band right?

Yea, the band doctor who.

 

[JOHN72]

Guns,tobacco,whisky.........Milk,meat....I think the most toxic is the political circus....A world ruled by useless.....

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

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Absolutley. ?

 

[judcole]

So what? He has a right to his opinion. No point in getting in a stew over it.

 

[frozenchurchwarden]

I can't disagree with the principle behind tobacco prohibition, millions of people are mentally trapped in a state of addiction, those people should be helped.
The flipside is: "The Worst Dictators Are The Ones Who Think They Have Your Best Interests In Mind".

Even if people never kick the habit, making medical Nicotine available at-cost would probably help to kill the Cigarette industry as fast as anything.
Of course that's not what governments want, they'll never seriously talk about prohibition either, no-one wants to give up their slaves.

In a perfect world human civilization would be able to avoid both mass substance addiction and dictatorships.

For everyone not addicted and genuinely just interested in Tobacco for fun, the consequences of Tobacco use should be treated the same as driving a Motorcycle.

 

[Chasing Embers]

the who?

World Health Organization

 

[Casual]

Their names change, but we always have a set of puritans about.

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

Here our Government come up with a plan than Finland has perspective to become a smoke free country in 2035?

 

[condorlover1]

There is always someone trying to ban something. Be it booze in America under the Volstead Act in the 1920s the zealot is never happy until everyone is as unhappy as they themselves are inwardly. Most of them are dependent on these crusades to furnish them with a job and income. In the old days one used to get tracts through the mail from these various group. I too well remember the Greens knocking on our door and selling their paper 'The Good Earth' circa 1977. Strangely their representative was a German women, her husband taught Russian since he thought it was the language of the future! That really worked out well for him and the great Soviet Utopia but it taught me that zealotry and other extreme political beliefs were mere kissing cousins. Anything containing the end 'ism' makes me want to reach for my pipe and light up something really odoriferous!

 

[python]

Because this isn't tobacco legislation and is instead an opinion piece by physicians and also it is from 2008, plus the fact that it has started on the slippery slope to the big "P" discussion, I'm closing it now to save headaches later.