Over here as well, unfortunately!
By Mike Cunningham On May 31st, 2012We here in these Dis-United British Isles have long been accustomed to ‘experts’ and other busy-bodies telling us what do eat, to drink, to wear, to drive etc., etc., because they, and they alone, seem to know what is going to be ‘good for us’.
We cannot smoke in bars, restaurants, offices, even bus-shelters because a bunch of well-funded clowns got a law passed which stops us from doing so because of the ‘perils’ of ‘second-hand smoke’! Don’t get me wrong, I used to smoke, heavily. But I stopped, on my own, and without any of the billion-pound anti-smoking products pushed by the NHS. I stopped because I wished to stop, because I benefited from not smoking, and incidentally because I saved a hell of a lot of cash by not buying cigarettes. But I would stress that it was my decision to stop, not because some Government-funded arsehole was insisting that I stop.
We are harried from morning to night by fools telling us what to do, whether it be eating the ‘wrong’ sort of food, or drinking incorrect quantities of alcohol. We already face the threat of the new Gestapo, the totally-politicised and thuggish British Police Service, ever eager to carry out their political masters’ wishes by crushing any dissent, except of course Muslim dissent. We face the days when the huge raft of anti-democratic Laws passed and active within the last fifteen years are already stifling free speech, in what is spoken, or written; and the day is fast approaching when what we think will probably be monitored as well!
And now of course the epidemic has reached the streets of New York, with yet another man who thinks he, and he alone, has the answer to the ‘Obesity’ problem apparently raging through the streets and homes of that wonderful city. God bless Mayor Bloomberg, because few others will!
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/31/nyregion/bloomberg-plans-a-ban-on-large-sugared-drinks.html?_r=1
Troll,
Haste to ask, but was there anything missed from your comment, such as a ‘comment’?
no just thought the story of Bloomberg making large soda’s and milkshakes illegal went well with the post
I missed that you had already linked to it. sorry hadn’t finished my first pot of coffee yet;)
Troll
Do you support the legalization of pot?
If you don’t, you’re a little Bloomberg Nanny yourself.
The anti-smokign campaigns have saved countless lives and I am glad they were done. I don’t necessarily have a problem with sensible government programs to regulate certain unhealthy habits. We have an obesity problem here in the US and it brings its own costs.
I oppose restrictions on sales of sugary foods, especially when done by the imbeciles at the state and local level. Do it nationally or don’t do it at all.
But I don’t want to hear one word from the Drugs Nannies against the Food Nannies. They’re the same thing when you scratch the surface.
I do NOT oppose the legalization of pot, any thing harder than that cocaine, heroine etc etc, yes I di, but the pot heads are harmless.
Mahons please link to your proof that the smoking bans have saved a single life. I always enjoy a good laugh.
I know that you’re not really interested, and that you will deny all shown here, but in NYC smoking related deaths have drifted downward over the past ten years here. It is estimated that a total of 8000 lives have been saved since smoking started to decline sharply over the past eight years.
For those who are interested, you can look it up here.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/downloads/pdf/vs/vs-highlights-of-2010summary.pdf
Good comment on pot by the way.
Alcohol is way more dangerous than pot.
But that won’t stop the army of nannies here!
your PDF is damaged and will not open, but your right it’s irrelevant. Second hand smoke from cigarettes was never proven to be harmful. It was hyped and theorized but no hard facts could ever be tied to “proof”. The best report I saw was the one done in Europe that was a 20yr study that showed children that were raised in households where one or both parents smoked caught fewer colds than children raised in houses that didn’t.