A friend in Vancouver tells me that cigarettes are increasingly restricted in Canada, and especially so in Vancouver.
Apparently:
According to a poster on another thread, something very similar is true in Australia.
And it looks likely to be the same in the UK soon as well.
Although I don't smoke anymore, Japan seems to be either one of the last holdouts of liberty, or a backward pre-modern smoke-pit, as here people can smoke in bars, restaurants and on (some) train platforms, on most roads, in cars, at the gym, in football stadiums, in parks and in schools. Also, cigarettes are prominently on display in shops and in ubiquitous vending machines on the streets which also often have ashtrays beside them so that you can smoke by the roadside. There are warnings on the packet, but instead of people with rotten teeth falling out, no hair, holes in their necks, fingers and toes falling off and post-mortem lungs, they tend to warn that smoking may not be entirely beneficial to one's health and it may be a good idea if you did not smoke too many if at all possible.
Of course, in my grandma's day, she would have a fag and a gin-and-tonic while a few days before popping out my dad and it didn't do her any harm. She's 95, you know!
But one thing I have noticed is that whereas the right-wing used to be all religious and high and mighty about people's behaviour, it now seems to be more of a left-wing thing to preach the sins of smoking. So much so that these right-wing publications are now saying that anti-smoking prejudice has become a stigma.
This one from the Revolutionary Communist Party-turned right-wing libertarians sp!ked, calls it a war on smoking in the UK. This one from the New Republic also says there is a "war on smoking" and says that it has gone too far.
What does everyone else think?
Apparently:
Quote:
you cannot display cigarettes in canada. the cannot have anything but company name awful picture of dead people and giant warning on the packet. you cannot smoke in your car in vancouver or in a park or within 10 metres of any building. the last one is crazy cause that puts you in the middle of the road and no one obeys it. |
According to a poster on another thread, something very similar is true in Australia.
And it looks likely to be the same in the UK soon as well.
Although I don't smoke anymore, Japan seems to be either one of the last holdouts of liberty, or a backward pre-modern smoke-pit, as here people can smoke in bars, restaurants and on (some) train platforms, on most roads, in cars, at the gym, in football stadiums, in parks and in schools. Also, cigarettes are prominently on display in shops and in ubiquitous vending machines on the streets which also often have ashtrays beside them so that you can smoke by the roadside. There are warnings on the packet, but instead of people with rotten teeth falling out, no hair, holes in their necks, fingers and toes falling off and post-mortem lungs, they tend to warn that smoking may not be entirely beneficial to one's health and it may be a good idea if you did not smoke too many if at all possible.
Of course, in my grandma's day, she would have a fag and a gin-and-tonic while a few days before popping out my dad and it didn't do her any harm. She's 95, you know!
But one thing I have noticed is that whereas the right-wing used to be all religious and high and mighty about people's behaviour, it now seems to be more of a left-wing thing to preach the sins of smoking. So much so that these right-wing publications are now saying that anti-smoking prejudice has become a stigma.
This one from the Revolutionary Communist Party-turned right-wing libertarians sp!ked, calls it a war on smoking in the UK. This one from the New Republic also says there is a "war on smoking" and says that it has gone too far.
What does everyone else think?
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