to think that the government want a smoke free country

[Iliveinalighthousewiththeghost]

Then they should stop selling cigarettes all together.

I have never worked anywhere where smokers do not make up their breaks with unpaid overtime

Oh yes of course non- smokers never do unpaid overtime.

And smokers aren't doing "unpaid overtime" If they bother to make up the time (and in my experience they don't ) all they are doing is are actually working the hours they are paid for but which they spent hanging around the smoking shelter whilst leaving their colleagues to deal with their work.

We now have no staff in my department who take smoking breaks. It is so much better than when we did. The worst offender took her 2 smoking breaks, a full lunch break and was out of the door on the stroke of 5 every night.

if smoking were made illegal would that just mean smoking of tobacco or would it be illegal to smoke anything at all?

Say I wanted to skin up some erm...bay leaves (just a random example, Im not suggesting anyone smoke them) would that be illegal?
would people start growing tobacco plants under lights in the loft?
aren't they related to potatoes and tomatoes, could we smoke potato leaves instead?

I'm sure I heard talk a while ago about banning the sale of tobacco products to anyone born after 2000.

It seemed like quite a sensible idea, but I haven't heard anything more about it.

Fairly sure it was from the Scottish Government, but not 100% sure...

Suzanne
The current laws are specifically about tobacco, including in Amsterdam where you can happily smoke a pure cannabis joint in a cafe, but are breaking the law if you put some tobacco in there as well, which is a law to protect peoples health. Which makes tonnes of sense

well that is just mad, surely the harmful thing about tobacco is the smoking of it, as a nicotine delivery system it leaves a lot to be desired, spose you could say the same thing about cannabis and cannabinoids.
What about tobacco tea, or tobacco baked in cakes

duhgldiuhfdsli It sounds truthy to claim that it costs money.
Please, do you have to? The intensity of my physical reaction to that hideous neologism was very close to literally painful. How about "Claiming that it costs money sounds plausible..."

Mawbroon Do you really think that that could be enforced?

I have no idea or not if it could be enforced. But it's a more sensible suggestion that banning tobacco outright.

I think the government should not be trying to constrain personal liberties any more on this issue. The recent stuff in the news on suggestions about banning smoking in parks ticked me off as it seemed to be more about banning it as seeing people smoking could encourage other people to take it up which I think is an alarming slippery slope to start on.

agree with Ilovepud!