Nanny state or good sense?

As of Thursday, cigarette vending machines will be banned and visible displays banned from supermarkets which will be extended to smaller shops by 2015. They also want to ban smoking in cars.

So is this a step towards a nanny state or just good sense? I'm thinking the former.

 

As a smoker I would like cigerettes to be banned and impossible to get as I am certain to have a slow lingering death due to them. As someone who doesn't think people should be told what to do I wish they would **** off.

 

No **** tells me what I can do in my own car

 

I agree with this up to a point, it should be legal in a car, it's your own property.

 

Let's face it, the government would be ****ed without us smokers, and when we are an outlawed species, they will start picking on the drinkers and drivers of the nation.

Oi, hang on a minute, that's me ****ed, ****ed and ****ed.
****ing bastards.

 

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When I smoked this sort of legislation drove me nuts but now I've quit I couldn't give a ****.

Read the other day that a US state, think it was California, is going to ban smoking outside anywhere, even in your own garden. That would have ****ed me up as I never smoked in the house, always stood outside.

 

You may well laugh young/old (delete non applicable) lady, but my fecking Plymouth only does about 14mpg, and that's pretty much the last bastion of enjoyment i have left.

 

Drivers already get hammered with every new hidden and unhidden tax there is.

 

I don't know what any of that means

 

Ok, i'll try and break it down a little.



This is ma Plymouth, (Yeah i know, i had my midlife crisis early, to get it out of the way) and it only does 14 miles per gallon.

Any better?

 

That's a weapon mate

 

Seriously? That ain't very practical, is it?

 

Why thank you sir, for the compliment.

Now, what ya think of me wheels?

 

Looks a bit like the motor from the film Grease

Go grease lighting you're burning up the quarter mile, grease lightning go grease lightning

 

Nanny. I like that word. It makes me grin.

 

You have a very valid point here, but i thought "**** it, why should the yanks get all the fun", especially as this is the avarage sorta thing we would have drove about in at the time my baby was built.


Oh feck, bit of a fail there.

 

They can get to **** with the supermarket and car rules

 

To be honest User, i have never been able to bring myself to watch Greese, fecking hate musicals.

 

It is a very nice car. I think I had a blue one as a toilet roll holder.

Clearly not a life sized one