Licence to smoke' proposed

[JaKaAch]

This is being talked about in England.
How long before it someone in the U.S. proposes this..??
How much would be too much for you. Would you pay $25.00 for a smoking licence.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7247470.stm

[ScottishSmoker]

It sucks that it might have to come to this... What happened to the idea that as human beings we have the right do do certain things as we please? I am totally disgusted that this might ever get proposed.

By the Way, thanks again for the camera JaKaAch

[TripleF]

Great post Jeff.

Gets me riled though.

Smoking is a choice, a decision, a selection and the government should in no way have any effect on that decision. Gets me jacked up

[gamayrouge]

I'd pay it. Be pretty nifty to have a smoking license. Though I'd expect to be able to smoke anywhere I damn please!

[megasolo]

This is insane, I can't beleive someone had the balls to actually propose this. Why should I have to ask permission to smoke?

[Joey Link]

Sadly, this is the direction the world is headed, and not just with smoking...

[stig]

Would love to see them enforce this. The article says that you would only need the license to buy tobacco products, not smoke them. Do you think that guy running the cigar shop in Pennsylvania or Switzerland or Japan who is selling you cigars on line is going to ask you to see a copy of your smoking license? I don't see this one going to far.

[Sergeant Smoky]

Originally Posted by stig

Would love to see them enforce this. The article says that you would only need the license to buy tobacco products, not smoke them. Do you think that guy running the cigar shop in Pennsylvania or Switzerland or Japan who is selling you cigars on line is going to ask you to see a copy of your smoking license? I don't see this one going to far.

Or 1 of your buddies gets the license and pass sticks out to all of his buddies.

[stig]

Originally Posted by Sergeant Smoky

Or 1 of your buddies gets the license and pass sticks out to all of his buddies.

They can't keep cigarettes out of the hands of 15 year olds now because the stores don't card for tobacco products like they should. Do they really think they have a shot at this with adults who are old enough to smoke?

If tey spent as much time worrying about the falling economy, the homeless and keeping jobs in our own countries as they do with tobacco legislation then the world probably wouldn't be such a mess.

[SmokeyJoe]

Man, that really stinks... and you are right, probably not long before it is proposed here.

Well... if we do go to that... I call dibs on the number [SIZE="3"]007 - License to Kill Cigars[/SIZE].

[JaKaAch]

Originally Posted by SmokeyJoe

Man, that really stinks... and you are right, probably not long before it is proposed here.

Well... if we do go to that... I call dibs on the number [SIZE="3"]007 - License to Kill Cigars[/SIZE].

Good one Joe..007
You are always thinking, you cigar Killer..

[SmokeyJoe]

Originally Posted by JaKaAch

Good one Joe..007
You are always thinking, you cigar Killer..

The name is Joe... SMOKEY Joe.

[smokering10]

the day they start that crap is the day apart of America's culture and history dies. i dont want to get political but when you get these maternalistic liberals in power, this is what happens. they control you personally by what you eat, what you drive, what kind of ligh bulbs, and how you live your life. these laws will flood in and basically ban smoking altogether if we get national health care because then the goverment is incharge of your health not we the people.

[TonySmith]

Just another way to make a criminal out of an otherwise law abiding person.

[CCCigar]

What's truly offensive here is the way the guy is going about proposing it. What a snake. He should just come out and say the National Health System needs money and we are going to target smokers specifically to get it. At least then he would be being honest.