After the smoking ban in the UK, what do you think will be/should be banned next?

Question

What about fatty food in all public places - It's very damaging to your health.

What about Cars and the fumes they create - again, very unpleasant for those of us who walk and ride.

Any other ideas for this Nanny government - Beware of giving your freedom of choice away to the few. Before you know there will be very little left.

I hope Sant's sac is being Ironic. Because i am genuinely worried about the erosion of freedom of choice in society.

Oh, and I am a non smoker. I just think that in an adult environment landlords should choose whether to be a smoking or non smoking pub. the choice should not be made centrally.

Besides - many people pick on the fatty food argument - indeed that is not damaging to others - but car fumes are devastating to health and the environment - so please base your arguments on full inclusion of the facts and not just the ones that suit.

Answer 1

You have recognised, rightly in my view, that banning things tends to create a momentum to ban other things. That's how control freaks operate. When people agree with a particular ban, they will support it out of self interest, but in so doing, they fail to realise, that something that they enjoy, may eventually be banned. So, in the interests of all, it is usually better to be more tolerant toward other peoples irritating habits, before you jump aboard the banning bandwagon. Intolerance breeds hatred which breeds persecution.

Answer 2

I hope to hell everyone ignores it. I smoked for years sometimes up to 40 a day whilst driving the length and breadth of Britain. I also ate crap in every place I had to stop including Motorway service areas. I then had a minor heart attack and had to give up driving a lorry when it was found I was also diabetic and had to take insulin. I stopped smoking whilst in hospital. According to all the do-gooders the heart attack was without doubt my own fault and I guess all of the anti-smoking Nazis out there will say the same. However what happened to me has still not prevented me from defending the right of anyone to smoke if they should so wish and I feel like it will be beholden on me to light up a cigarette at the first opportunity after the ban comes into place in my local club where I have been a member for 28 years as a sign of solidarity with smokers everywhere. Smokers have been made social pariahs by the anti-smoking lobby and it would seem the only thing left is to ban tobacco. Do that by all means and we can all pay for the £7 billion in lost revenue and even the smoking Nazis will pay!!!!!!!. I would back the ban if at the same time the use and abuse of all non prescription drugs i.e. cocaine ,heroin, marijuana or whatever other name it goes by were made punishable by death!! But that won't happen because addicts can't help it can they? YES THEY CAN BUT THEY WON'T.

Answer 3

Maybe not a ban but there will deffo be limitations on the 'bad' foods we buy. Maybe on one chocolate bar per customer per purchase etc.
perhaps everytime we go in a shop we have to have our i.d cards scanned to make sure we haven't been to mcdonalds that week so that we can have a bag of crisps.

They seem to have an idea that the whole country is going to be obese in a few years but what cack are they filling our children's head with? They can take things too far and is it any cheaper to treat an underweight person than an overweight person

Answer 4

Don't know what will be next, as for smoking ban in UK, it is not all of the UK that will be banned as from July, Ireland already been banned for 2 years, Scotland for 1 year, so you can be sure that whatever is next on the agenda it will be tried out not in England but in Scotland or Ireland, same as with the poll tax, can't upset the English so we (the government) will try it on Scotland first so as not to upset the majority of the voters if it don't work out

Answer 5

Smoking hasn't been banned in the UK.. and it never will be.

It has been banned in PUBLIC places.

But to answer your question - I think spitting in public should be banned next because it's almost as disgusting and offensive as someone blowing smoke in your face, or even in your general vicinity. And let's face it, all sorts of diseases are contracted through saliva (bodily fluids). Someone with HIV and a vendetta against humanity could just go around spitting on anyone.

Answer 6

I think we (the people) should ban this government. Other things we should ban:

Lawyers who enter politics
any moron who says "hug a hoodie"
fuel duty
road tax ( hardly any of it is spent on the roads anyway)
inheritance tax ( taxing money that's already been taxed is unjust)
tax on pensioners (they're old, and have paid their dues)
trade unions
police who don't have a degree in criminology and ethics
any idiot who thinks humans can change nature
hate pedalars ( no matter religion, ethnic backround)
anyone who says I can't defend myself, family and property, by whatever means available.
current corrupt immigration officals
open immigration
uncertified tradesmen, plumbers, electrians, builders etc.
censorship
any one person who thinks they know whats best for everyone
aid to Africa ( throwing money at them hasn't helped in the past, it's not going to help now)
anyone who tries to convince people theory is fact
repeat offenders
pedophiles

Where should we ban them....space, preferably towards the sun.
500 years ago if we were treated the way we are being treated now, we would revolt and cut the head of our leader off. I think it's time to lop off the head of this undemocratic, self serving, lieing, thieving, corrupt serpent called government.

Answer 7

Why don't they just cage us all up and tell us what we can do? A tax on the air we breathe may be next, if you don't pay your tax you die! This country has had it, it's all rubbish, yes cars cause pollution, but why don't they solve it in other ways rather than taxing everything. How much of that money actually goes back into the environment? Not much I'll bet! They want cars off the road, and yet I read that Gordon Brown wants to put the train fares up substantially to deter people from using them at peak times!!! (When everybody has to work) We can't win, all that wins is the government and these stupid MP's who get bumper salaries and pensions etc!

Answer 8

this is where having a long memory comes in, i think next they will want to ban boozor at least pubs, in the old days there were lots of back street pubs and they all had a mens room they used to call the tap room the men would gather around tables with their pints of bear and talk about everything under the sun even politics. the government dont like places like that where men can meet and plot and share oppinions, so they began to change things, they got rid of the mens room and brought in theme pubs, family pubs,then continuess loud music means you cant have a proper conversation. comradship has to go,Companies dont like it either i have worked for firms if you speak to a work mate, a boss comes a long and splits you up they are paranoid, government will do everything and anything to devide the people in as many ways as they can.Thats why blair gave pp; 24hr drinking because he knew it would fail causing to much bing drinking. now he can proceed to ban it all together. its not the booz its the talking they dont like, because they are paranoid and thin all are plotting against them. i am teatotal myself. many pubs domt like folks talking politics. you cant talk at work and you cant talk after work.so yes they will ban pubs that talk,binging will be the excus , whatever he does it will be bad for your economy as an individual or it will devide the people, turn scots and welsh against the english ect ect.

Answer 9

There's no point in banning anything else, because no-one enforces the bans. Smoking is banned on buses, yet I see it all the time, fireworks are banned at unsociable hours, but there are still fireworks being set off at all hours, sales of knives to under 16's , sales of solvents, spray paint, and cigarettes to minors. I think we should be enforcing the bans we already have before bringing out any more.

Answer 10

I think people smoking while you try to eat is disgusting and rude.

I don't know anyone who enjoys eating out in a smokey pub or restaurant.

I am amazed how slow we are to ban it from public places!

Did you know Ireland had banned smoking in their pubs before England banned it in hospitals?

Bonkers!!!

It isn't anything to do with the so called "Nanny Government". This is more about GOOD MANNERS which seems to have no place in our narrow minded selfish society anymore.