goverment health for the public?

Question

why does the goverment in the u.k want people to stop smoking and drink more by haveing late pub closeing,wich they know there will be trouble in the late hours,..could it be they lost tax duty on ciarettes,and gain more on alcohol,plus extra on late closeing times,and not for there reasons,

Answer 1

The government wants people to stop smoking because smoking kills thousands of people every year. Surely any government must want to improve public health.

Later pub closing does not necessarily mean people drink more - in many cases they drink less because the 'get a couple of pints and a couple of doubles down before they close' doesn't happen any more.

In the first year of relaxed opening hours, there were less incidents in the late hours. The trouble often occurred because all the pubs chucked out at the same time, so lots of people were on the streets, after the same taxis home, queueing for the dodgy kebabs all together.

Relaxed opening hours has staggered this - people now head home when they are ready, not when the law tells them, so there is less conflict.

These two measures were not about revenue generation; one is a public health measure, the other reform of an archaic, restrictive law.

Answer 2

For the late drinking laws, they wanted it to become more like Europe. Where in some countries, establishments are able to get later licences into the early hours. This doesn't mean they are open 24 hours, in most cases people in europe in countries such as spain go out later and therfore it's needed. The problem is, the UK doesn't seem able to cope with the concept of drinking without passing out, and therefore to them, later licences just means more binge drinking. When the idea was originally to take the pressure off people to finish drinks before a certain time.

As for smoking, more and more people including smokers are comming round to the idea that smoking indoors might be a problem. They can still smoke (many people seem to forget this) just not in a closed space, where heath risks are higher for both smokers and non-smokers.

EDIT:

Mr Sceptic. What you said is what was proposed. Unfortunately in many place this has failed. With drinkers becoming more intoxicated than they would have originally. Now we have to have police out on the streets all night long coping with people leaving clubs, costing us the taxpayer. One can only hope time will change this. If not, maybe it'll have to go back to the way it was. Although I do hope Britain can deal with this, as I do like the choice to drink any time I like, be it 12am or 7am! We can only blame the fools for spoiling a good thing.

Answer 3

For some wierd reason the Government believes that extending licensing hours will NOT cause more alcohol consumption. If the pubs didn't expect morte sales would they do it?
Logic seems to have gone out of the window.
Maybe they had all been oiver-consuming when they framed the legislation: you should not ask a man to drink and think.

Answer 4

because more licker and late night licence moneys will go in the black hole while the ban on public smoking will not have that much affect people will still smoke . when you realise the brain washing of the smoking adiction you realise people can go long periods with out smoking yet they are still addicted , either way the government cannot lose . to stop public smoking looks good but does nothing forthe smokers addiction .