100% I owned a snooker club during the ban on public smoking, people don't want to be paying per minute for a table light when they are stood out in the freezing cold for a smoke. I played skittles, 4 people smoked, 2 of us didn't. Pre-ban no prob, post ban they'd bugger off outside most of the evening to smoke. Mass civil disobedience is required on so many fronts now.
I'm not a smoker, I dislike smoking and I'm glad that it was stopped inside buildings for several reasons BUT I'm NOT interested in banning it. I'm in favour of crash helmets but I hated when they made it compulsory even though I would never have gone riding without one. I'm in favour of not interfering with our rights. I get sick of politicians talking about banning or taxing things because they think discouraging them will win votes and that's what Sunak is doing. He plainly has a severe shortage of other ideas, apart from taking away more of our rights. I'm glad you got that one out of your system anyway.
Nobody and I mean nobody should feel entitled enough to tell another human being what they can or cannot do within the law. The fact that a person one day older than someone else will have different rights is disgusting.
@@aroundthecoast3334 Are they proposing that you cannot smoke, or cannot buy? Can you imagine a 70yr old being prosecuted for buying a 69yr old cigarettes? Who is going to check the age of an old person? This is a smoke (sorry 🤐) screen for some other news they’re sneaking out, I’m sure.
Freedom of choice is the thing that's being taken away from us ! The Government is becoming more & more DICTATES it's time to make a change in the way we are Governed. My best wishes to you all from the Philippines ❤️💪👍😉😀😁🏁🏍️🛺🐑🇵🇭🏴
when they stopped smoking in pubs that annoyed me for years people likes a pint and a roll up brought in the customers. loosing our freedoms and rights
At the age of 58, I moved from Aberystwyth to Thailand after 40 years of working for a printing company. I will never come back to the UK, owing to the controls the government want to put on its people. So good on you Paul for this rant. AS we used to say, don't let the bastards grind you down. Vote for the people you want! regards Con.
When anything is banned, the interfering busybodies then look at what the next target is to be, because they just cannot leave anyone alone. There is an argument for banning almost everything, but it takes away freedom of choice. Leave me alone!
I'm living in Austria (rather Austrian Democratic Republic), experiencing similiar trends here. Always wonder what will be the next restriction to come when all the vegan, non-smoking, sober people ride with less than 20mph using their muscle-powered tricycles on the former railway tracks ...
@@koarrl5996 We had the “greens”, now we have had a deluge of high rise flats, bins all over the pavements and the cutting down and building on everything green. Predominantly foreign ex-stasi members and taxers who visit at teatime to target the low wage earners who don’t own a garage when they’re getting home from work. Absolutely a shower, and i got a message of how dumb i was for expecting anything different.
Mass disobedience and refusal to obey unjust laws is what needed but only works if the people stand firm together. We must treat Government with the same contempt they treat us.
Ah the golden age for freedom in the uk. 1970 to 2000. I think historians will look back at those years as the "happy decades". I do feel the jackboot of our glorious ugh leaders squeezing the fun out of life in virtually every aspect....
My dad smoked for 70years and died aged 79. He didn't have cancer. My grandma died of cancer aged 53 in 1953 of breast cancer. She didn't smoke, weld, work in a factory or breathe dangerous fumes. I am fed up of all this ban, restrict, control, tax and oppression we are suffering. After WW2, the world was told the fascists were defeated. But hwat happened to those that survived? It seems to me their politics have crept into the modern world of politics and BIG business. They don't want us earning, self employed, smokers, drinkers, meat eaters, farmers, motorists and such like. The want us enslaved in pigeon holes 15minutes from work and the socialist shop chain that supply your daily ration of one slice of insect protein fake bread, one portion of foreign made porridge, one portion of insect protein factory meat, one bottle of drinking water and 2g of salt.
Good on you mate! once a rebel always a rebel!we had that communist nonsense here in new zealand with the communist ardern--lucky some normal people own us now and have scrapped the nanny state crap.I done the same as you
I have been a smoker for 20 years and I stopped when I was 33. Then I played here and there with vapes. But it makes me dizzy and not feel good. But when I turned 49 or what I call 50, as it was living my 50th year on the planet. I tried smoking a pipe. What a life changer. Not sure what the difference it is in taxs there, but what enjoyment it is to smoke a pipe. And being a motorcycle and piping channel, I really do enjoy having my time. As pipe tobacco can be stored for many years and most of us have purchased more then we can smoke for the rest of our lives just incase it's starts here in America. I just watched a channel that states that a ban on tobacco sales on people born after 2009. That is crazy to me. But no one cares as it doesn't effect the majority, it only effects the young that are not of age to fight the ban. But eat all the sugar, and drink all the caffeine you want. Drink till you vomit! I love the leaders that tell you " we do this to protect people" as the rules and laws do not apply to them.
Spot on Paul. I don’t smoke but that’s my choice, it is not the right of the government to decide who can and who can’t smoke. I remember seat belts, crash helmets and many more ‘rights’ that we’ve lost. By the way I always wear a crash helmet and/or seat belt and fully appreciate the safety aspects of both but again it’s a choice that we no longer have. Red meat will be the next one as that’ll be bad for your health and cost the NHS a fortune. Don’t be fooled the underlying drive of the government here is to Privatise the Health Service.
Good on you Paul, I was nodding in agreement all the way through this video, incompetent politicians have ruined this country, I'm old enough to remember when this country was great, people were happy and content, what a sorry state it is in now!!! We've just got to make the best of things, stick two fingers up to the muppets in London and carry on in the best British way.
Tried smoking in my youth didn't like it much. Father and mother both smoked, farther died at 87 and his brother who smoked a pipe died at 99. In Bulgaria everyone smokes, I've no problem with it. I even like the smell especially a pipe or cigar.
TBH I packed in smoking almost 20 years ago, and no longer miss it. But if I thought it would annoy the hell out of our excuse for a government I'd start all over again. You enjoy your roll up Paul and carry on ranting before they ban it!
Exactly the same with horrible old petrol Paul where the hell are they going to make up for the loss of tax money when they have forced electric cars and bikes on the UK public hopefully it will not happen in my lifetime.
I've never been a smoker, so this proposed law doesn't affect me directly. The ridiculous point about it is that, from 2027, when the first batch of people affected reach 18, some adults will be allowed to buy tobacco, and others won't. Apart from the inequality in that, how on earth do the government expect to enforce it? In 20 years time, do they expect retailers to check whether a customer is 38 or 39? It is madness.
I've never smoked and dislike smoking, as its addictive effects killed most of my immediate family. However, when the public are worried about unfettered legal and illegal immigration, the influence of political activism on basic freedoms of choice, and simply paying bills at the end of the month after gross financial mismanagement, to rest your legacy as Prime Minister on cigarette sales to adults who may be asked to go to war for the country, seems deluded.
go to war to fight for what? i told my boys no ! do not join up what are you fighting for? the right to pay bills to a govt that just works for the elite and their war machine? and you're supposed to lay down your life for that? its crap! its the same old class system that its always been the poor used and abused while the rich parasites feed off of the misery. thatchers "victorian values" updated for the 21st century
Ban smoking, then ban alcohol, sugary drinks, high 'carbon' food, camping, driving, etc, etc. Soon you will not be allowed to live in your own house. Governments should be seen but not heard!
Politicians nowadays vote for their party and get a whacking wage and pension and have forgotten to work for our lovely country and their hardworking people,well some of them.
"Under the plan anyone born on or after 1 January 2009 - in effect anyone who is 14 or younger now - will not legally be able to buy cigarettes in England during their lives as the smoking age is raised by one year every year" I think this is fine so the future generations would no longer prolong this life threatening habit in society.
It's all gone way too far. Remember telling my kids teacher about holiday trips sitting on the wheel arches in dad's builders van. We were more scared of his cement mixer falling on us tbh than crashing at the max speed of 50.
From time to time I like a good cigar and a glass or 4 of a fine wine…just sitting outside watching the world go by….I do this MAYBE once every year and a half or 2….no big deal….just a relaxing time of meditation and chatting with the ol’ “ball & chain” who I love very much (god I hope she doesn’t see that!….my “water” will be cut off for a month!)…ban smoking?…naw…I’m glad indoors smoking has been banned but to each his own….we’re adults, not children…
you can vote yourself into tyranny. you can not vote yourself out of tyranny. What makes a politician so much of a genius that they know, the moment they win an election, what's "good" for everyone else? And just what is this so called, "Common Good", anyway? When will the less common get their good? I'm tired of Emperors all around me; minority rule (did I really vote against MY OWN INTERESTS?) uffda.
@@kafkastrial8650 I always do; this is what many of us don't get - things have never been good or bad, they just are, and old people always look back at "the old days" and moan about them
@@stewartellinson8846 In the 80's I worked for an old lady that had been a child just after the 1st World War and she could remember seeing groups of men lining up for bread in the snow, some had no shoes on their feet . No experience has ever come close to that in my life but I have seen the erosion of many freedoms and the demeaning of simple joys !
Stop smoking government says? So where's the government's timetable gone to for removing asbestos from the home or workplace? More slippage time, again, I'm wondering. Just a thought?
Bloody Nora Paul. Do you fancy starting a republic? I'd be passport number 002. A mate who's never smoked said he hated the pub smell after the ban. Would rather tobacco stink than BO stench. I stopped going to the pub after the ban. Too many quisling snitches. It only takes one and the landlord is in bother. Those buggers even complain to the landlord if you're smoking outside now, after we've held the fort all winter.
The Independent Republic of Llanwrda ! We could make it 'virtual' in that you don't need to live there to be in it, just identify as Llanwrdians, very 21st century !!
Walking tax between areas in the same town and city, ID swipe cards to allow entry and exit, facial recognition,,,, this decade is going to be a bad one
If you were born before 2009 you won’t be banned from smoking, the government, unusually supported by the opposition, are trying to stop young people becoming addicted to the toxic poisonous habit of smoking by banning the sale of tobacco to anyone born after 2009. And, having seen the effects of smoking first hand on a cancer ward, cancer of the throat and mouth amongst others with bits of face and tongue removed to prevent the spread of the disease for once, if it stops people from smoking, Rishi Sunak gets my support.
They already are and have been for years , In fact , All private personal transport is on their hit list. Case in point the uk is no longer part of the EU but still follow their rulings eg: Euro5 etc`
Commercial flights and motorcycles, yes. These things both give you a bird's eye view and let you see the bigger picture. Over 88% of land in the UK is not built upon and is unavailable for development. But look around you and it's crowded, right? They want feudalism and nothing else. If your world is in a 15 minute radius, you will never see that. But the luxuries and largesse THEY enjoy is simply incredible. All at our cost.
This is happening across the western world. Dont know about you guys But I'm an adult and I'm sovereign I dont need govt telling me what I can and cant do. If you cause no loss, harm or injury to anyone else there's no crime. Do not give any details away about yourself. Politely tell the copper if he's asking for them be on his way.
It's all about control Paul. Nothing to do with anything else. They certainly don't care about our health. As far as having a pint in concerned, try coming down to Hampshire you need a bank loan to have one down here!
I don't mind folks smoking heavily as long as they and not me pay for any smoking related diseases they may incur. I was never dim enough to start smoking in the first place.
Think about it covid flue cold weather hot weather redmeat vegetables terrorist cars bikes trains boats diets medicine everything's out to get you according to the g men we should all stop listening to the crap we get told and live our life with one rule DO NO HARM and just ay no more often
Dave Alan once said about smoking “I drink, but I don’t piss up your leg.” If you want to smoke, fine. But not in outside seating areas of cafes and pubs. It ruins it for the majority that don’t smoke. Also, when was the last time a smoker actually asked those around them if they minded them smoking? Here’s a heads-up smokers… you stink.
Good on ya mate. i think i'll do the same thing. wonder how many others will do it. cheers Rishi i could do with a nicotine hit😃 oh and Rishi get bent!
You can argue that if less or no one smoked, waiting lists would be shorter, more beds would be free, and the cost to the health service would be a lot lower. You could also argue that having a healthier population would generate more taxes, covering the shortfall from cig taxes, as they would be more active and purchase more services and stuff..... because they are living longer and healthier. My grandfather smoked, died before his time because of it. My dad smoked, got cancer and died before his time. Do yourself a favour, bin the cigs, there's bikes to be fixed 👍
You could argue that we are taxed from the day we are born until the day we die and that the NHS is there to help us regardless of how we injure ourselves. As for fixing Bikes, what happens when the Government determine that injured motorcyclists are costing the NHS too much money? You'll be happy to see motorcycling banned because the injuries are mostly self inflicted?
I don’t understand why a libertarian ( no rules for us plenty for you) government who presumably are well in bed with the tobacco companies would even consider such an idea. Making something illegal clearly doesn’t work otherwise we’d have no smack problem. And it just enables criminal activity. Where do you stop. Biking? Horse riding ( no cos that’s for them by and large) rock climbing? Public education is the way forward, informed choice with people educated in a manner to let them become able to make such choices.
I'm just as p*ssed off as you are Paul but for slightly different reasons.. I do smoke and have spent a good while now talking myself into stopping, I'd just made my mind up and declared a date to stop to my family, but now Sunak says I HAVE to stop I really don't want to.. In effect Sunak's proposed totalitarian legislation has provoked me into not stopping smoking... It's just another step towards living in huge mud hut cities with no heating and intermittent electricity.. (look it up, they're now trialling houses built using compacted MUD as the main constituent of the walls..)
Smoking has been pushed as “cool” for years. How many back handers to film and tv directors to include the hero smoking? Tobacco companies make huge profits but know the health problems. They do not care.
Why are you complaining? It will not affect you. It’s The biggest cause of avoidable deaths. I used to smoke, best thing I ever did was give up forty years ago. It’s great not to suffer the stink in the pub too. Worth noting the cross party support.
he's not banning you it's for kids born after 1st January 2009 which is unenforcible, taxes for ciggerrets is less than nhs cost for smokers being treated
They don’t want to ban you from smoking. They want to ensure your grandchildren never have the option to start smoking, which seems perfectly fair enough to me.
When they eventually get their way and bann smoking our lovely Chancellor is going to have a massive void in his coffers and he's gonna want to need to fill that void. Now just how is he gonna do that?!.. More duty on drink and petrol for starters would probably be right... The joy police are destroying life....
Don't forget the MPs exempted themselves from the pub ban, as the House isn't a 'public place'.
Pass the Rizlas.
Big Rizlas for them 😁
totally agree spot on
100% I owned a snooker club during the ban on public smoking, people don't want to be paying per minute for a table light when they are stood out in the freezing cold for a smoke. I played skittles, 4 people smoked, 2 of us didn't. Pre-ban no prob, post ban they'd bugger off outside most of the evening to smoke. Mass civil disobedience is required on so many fronts now.
Am in total agreement with what you said Keep on biking before they ban that As well. Happy days
I'm not a smoker, I dislike smoking and I'm glad that it was stopped inside buildings for several reasons BUT I'm NOT interested in banning it. I'm in favour of crash helmets but I hated when they made it compulsory even though I would never have gone riding without one. I'm in favour of not interfering with our rights. I get sick of politicians talking about banning or taxing things because they think discouraging them will win votes and that's what Sunak is doing. He plainly has a severe shortage of other ideas, apart from taking away more of our rights. I'm glad you got that one out of your system anyway.
Well said
Oh no, Sunak is both faking figure and seizing on the news that inflation is down to 3.2% …….. snap election coming up?
Nobody and I mean nobody should feel entitled enough to tell another human being what they can or cannot do within the law. The fact that a person one day older than someone else will have different rights is disgusting.
@@aroundthecoast3334 Are they proposing that you cannot smoke, or cannot buy? Can you imagine a 70yr old being prosecuted for buying a 69yr old cigarettes? Who is going to check the age of an old person? This is a smoke (sorry 🤐) screen for some other news they’re sneaking out, I’m sure.
Freedom of choice is the thing that's being taken away from us ! The Government is becoming more & more DICTATES it's time to make a change in the way we are Governed. My best wishes to you all from the Philippines ❤️💪👍😉😀😁🏁🏍️🛺🐑🇵🇭🏴
These Rants keep on getting better and better!
The bloody bastards want our rights! Seems like it has become a full-time job telling them to slag off.
I agree. Paul should give up motorbike repair entirely, and become a full-time youtube ranter.
Never give in to these tyrants. Do everything you can to do the opposite to what the say.
Another good rant "one up the establishment". You carry on being a rebel 😂👍
when they stopped smoking in pubs that annoyed me for years people likes a pint and a roll up brought in the customers. loosing our freedoms and rights
I started going to pubs when they banned smoking. Prior to that I could neither stand the smell nor the smoke making me cough.
I'm right with you there Paul! I gave up smoking "my choice". Not some sniverling little Rolland Rat look alike's choice!
Well said. Good on you.
At the age of 58, I moved from Aberystwyth to Thailand after 40 years of working for a printing company. I will never come back to the UK, owing to the controls the government want to put on its people. So good on you Paul for this rant. AS we used to say, don't let the bastards grind you down. Vote for the people you want! regards Con.
Absolutely with you all the way on all of that Paul!
I feel the emotions you are going through, here in USA, we too have similar issues. Over controlling govts.
When anything is banned, the interfering busybodies then look at what the next target is to be, because they just cannot leave anyone alone. There is an argument for banning almost everything, but it takes away freedom of choice. Leave me alone!
I'm living in Austria (rather Austrian Democratic Republic), experiencing similiar trends here. Always wonder what will be the next restriction to come when all the vegan, non-smoking, sober people ride with less than 20mph using their muscle-powered tricycles on the former railway tracks ...
@@koarrl5996 We had the “greens”, now we have had a deluge of high rise flats, bins all over the pavements and the cutting down and building on everything green. Predominantly foreign ex-stasi members and taxers who visit at teatime to target the low wage earners who don’t own a garage when they’re getting home from work. Absolutely a shower, and i got a message of how dumb i was for expecting anything different.
Point well made Paul. Why cant we just be left tovmake our own decisions about our own lives?!?
Mass disobedience and refusal to obey unjust laws is what needed but only works if the people stand firm together.
We must treat Government with the same contempt they treat us.
Ah the golden age for freedom in the uk. 1970 to 2000. I think historians will look back at those years as the "happy decades". I do feel the jackboot of our glorious ugh leaders squeezing the fun out of life in virtually every aspect....
nope, that's probably just when you were younger.
@stewartellinson your right , things have NEVER been better! 🙄
Oh god don’t remind us.
It's not they ban stuff, its the fact that folk go along with it.
You can't comply your way out of tyranny.
I fully agree with you paul keep it up 👍👍👍👍👍
My dad smoked for 70years and died aged 79. He didn't have cancer. My grandma died of cancer aged 53 in 1953 of breast cancer. She didn't smoke, weld, work in a factory or breathe dangerous fumes. I am fed up of all this ban, restrict, control, tax and oppression we are suffering.
After WW2, the world was told the fascists were defeated. But hwat happened to those that survived? It seems to me their politics have crept into the modern world of politics and BIG business. They don't want us earning, self employed, smokers, drinkers, meat eaters, farmers, motorists and such like. The want us enslaved in pigeon holes 15minutes from work and the socialist shop chain that supply your daily ration of one slice of insect protein fake bread, one portion of foreign made porridge, one portion of insect protein factory meat, one bottle of drinking water and 2g of salt.
It certainly seems to be heading that way.
3 Cheers for this Paul Spot On
Thanks Paul.
Well said!👏👏
Spot on buddy I've just lit up a cigar...lock me up if he wants 😡
Your bloody well right!!
Good on you mate! once a rebel always a rebel!we had that communist nonsense here in new zealand with the communist ardern--lucky some normal people own us now and have scrapped the nanny state crap.I done the same as you
I am 76 this year and have smoked since I was 13 and I enjoy every one
Spot on,they want us to exist not live
I quit a few years ago but will occasionally enjoy a smoke amongst friends. It's crazy how expensive a pack of cigarettes has gotten.
I have been a smoker for 20 years and I stopped when I was 33. Then I played here and there with vapes. But it makes me dizzy and not feel good. But when I turned 49 or what I call 50, as it was living my 50th year on the planet. I tried smoking a pipe. What a life changer. Not sure what the difference it is in taxs there, but what enjoyment it is to smoke a pipe. And being a motorcycle and piping channel, I really do enjoy having my time. As pipe tobacco can be stored for many years and most of us have purchased more then we can smoke for the rest of our lives just incase it's starts here in America. I just watched a channel that states that a ban on tobacco sales on people born after 2009. That is crazy to me. But no one cares as it doesn't effect the majority, it only effects the young that are not of age to fight the ban. But eat all the sugar, and drink all the caffeine you want. Drink till you vomit! I love the leaders that tell you " we do this to protect people" as the rules and laws do not apply to them.
well said Paul, my thoughts exactly
Spot on!
Mr sunak smoke gets in your eyes 😂, love the rant Paul you should be in 10 downing Street 🍺🚬 cheers
I knew they wouldn’t stop with fox hunting, funny they can’t stop dinghies though.
Spot on Paul.
I don’t smoke but that’s my choice, it is not the right of the government to decide who can and who can’t smoke. I remember seat belts, crash helmets and many more ‘rights’ that we’ve lost. By the way I always wear a crash helmet and/or seat belt and fully appreciate the safety aspects of both but again it’s a choice that we no longer have. Red meat will be the next one as that’ll be bad for your health and cost the NHS a fortune. Don’t be fooled the underlying drive of the government here is to Privatise the Health Service.
Nicely put Paul! NOW the rest of the population needs to WAKE the F UP!
True words
I'm a smoker and it would be the best thing that's ever happened ban smoking worldwide 😊😊
I'm relying on Sunaks ban to keep me after Truss crashed my pension. I'll be buying them for the youngsters!
Rishi-washy!!! Used to be a smoker but can't afford now; used to be a bit of a drinker but can't afford now; but still make mi own dresses!!!!!!
Good on you Paul, I was nodding in agreement all the way through this video, incompetent politicians have ruined this country, I'm old enough to remember when this country was great, people were happy and content, what a sorry state it is in now!!! We've just got to make the best of things, stick two fingers up to the muppets in London and carry on in the best British way.
Tried smoking in my youth didn't like it much. Father and mother both smoked, farther died at 87 and his brother who smoked a pipe died at 99.
In Bulgaria everyone smokes, I've no problem with it. I even like the smell especially a pipe or cigar.
Keep the rants coming. They make sense in an ever growing nonsense world.
Nanny knows best 15 minute cities pay by card control remember the Canadian truckers
TBH I packed in smoking almost 20 years ago, and no longer miss it. But if I thought it would annoy the hell out of our excuse for a government I'd start all over again. You enjoy your roll up Paul and carry on ranting before they ban it!
Thanks!
Exactly the same with horrible old petrol Paul where the hell are they going to make up for the loss of tax money when they have forced electric cars and bikes on the UK public hopefully it will not happen in my lifetime.
I've never been a smoker, so this proposed law doesn't affect me directly. The ridiculous point about it is that, from 2027, when the first batch of people affected reach 18, some adults will be allowed to buy tobacco, and others won't. Apart from the inequality in that, how on earth do the government expect to enforce it? In 20 years time, do they expect retailers to check whether a customer is 38 or 39? It is madness.
If they ban smoking where will they recover the lost tax revenue from ??/ take a guess, petrol, beer, food or anything else.
I love it!
I've never smoked and dislike smoking, as its addictive effects killed most of my immediate family. However, when the public are worried about unfettered legal and illegal immigration, the influence of political activism on basic freedoms of choice, and simply paying bills at the end of the month after gross financial mismanagement, to rest your legacy as Prime Minister on cigarette sales to adults who may be asked to go to war for the country, seems deluded.
go to war to fight for what? i told my boys no ! do not join up what are you fighting for? the right to pay bills to a govt that just works for the elite and their war machine? and you're supposed to lay down your life for that? its crap! its the same old class system that its always been the poor used and abused while the rich parasites feed off of the misery. thatchers "victorian values" updated for the 21st century
only witless bigots are worried about "unfettered legal and illegal immigration" because they've been readingt he daily hate.
A great rant, Paul. You really 'smoked' Sunak! Ha ha.
If it brings joy, its a target to be banned. Push lawn mowers and charcoal BBQ grills have been looked at to be banned in some areas of the U.S.
Bang on 👍
Gave up smoking years ago my choice, not Sunaks.
Ban smoking, then ban alcohol, sugary drinks, high 'carbon' food, camping, driving, etc, etc. Soon you will not be allowed to live in your own house. Governments should be seen but not heard!
It's a load of bollocks mate, new subscriber 👍
Thank you - and welcome on board!
Agree with your comment 👍 💯 %
Politicians nowadays vote for their party and get a whacking wage and pension and have forgotten to work for our lovely country and their hardworking people,well some of them.
"Under the plan anyone born on or after 1 January 2009 - in effect anyone who is 14 or younger now - will not legally be able to buy cigarettes in England during their lives as the smoking age is raised by one year every year" I think this is fine so the future generations would no longer prolong this life threatening habit in society.
It's all gone way too far. Remember telling my kids teacher about holiday trips sitting on the wheel arches in dad's builders van. We were more scared of his cement mixer falling on us tbh than crashing at the max speed of 50.
I believe they want to ban it for people born after 2009 paul
Good for you Paul. Rishi Sunk certainly knows how to make voters hate him doesn’t he. Alcohol ban next?
From time to time I like a good cigar and a glass or 4 of a fine wine…just sitting outside watching the world go by….I do this MAYBE once every year and a half or 2….no big deal….just a relaxing time of meditation and chatting with the ol’ “ball & chain” who I love very much (god I hope she doesn’t see that!….my “water” will be cut off for a month!)…ban smoking?…naw…I’m glad indoors smoking has been banned but to each his own….we’re adults, not children…
It'll be alcohol and cakes next
you can vote yourself into tyranny. you can not vote yourself out of tyranny. What makes a politician so much of a genius that they know, the moment they win an election, what's "good" for everyone else? And just what is this so called, "Common Good", anyway? When will the less common get their good? I'm tired of Emperors all around me; minority rule (did I really vote against MY OWN INTERESTS?) uffda.
I always think that it all started when they brought out Decimalization and took the old money away... And we have had the best of it !
ah, nostalgia,... the good old days.... nostalgia certainly isn't what it used to be
@@stewartellinson8846 Just consider that in the future these times will be someone's 'good old days ' !
@@kafkastrial8650 I always do; this is what many of us don't get - things have never been good or bad, they just are, and old people always look back at "the old days" and moan about them
@@stewartellinson8846 In the 80's I worked for an old lady that had been a child just after the 1st World War and she could remember seeing groups of men lining up for bread in the snow, some had no shoes on their feet . No experience has ever come close to that in my life but I have seen the erosion of many freedoms and the demeaning of simple joys !
This is the thin end of the wedge. What's next on the list to ban?
Stop smoking government says? So where's the government's timetable gone to for removing asbestos from the home or workplace? More slippage time, again, I'm wondering. Just a thought?
Ban swearing too. Good luck with both of the Herr Sunak.
Bloody Nora Paul. Do you fancy starting a republic? I'd be passport number 002.
A mate who's never smoked said he hated the pub smell after the ban. Would rather tobacco stink than BO stench.
I stopped going to the pub after the ban. Too many quisling snitches. It only takes one and the landlord is in bother. Those buggers even complain to the landlord if you're smoking outside now, after we've held the fort all winter.
The Independent Republic of Llanwrda ! We could make it 'virtual' in that you don't need to live there to be in it, just identify as Llanwrdians, very 21st century !!
Watch out the oxygen tax is coming.👍
Walking tax between areas in the same town and city, ID swipe cards to allow entry and exit, facial recognition,,,, this decade is going to be a bad one
If you were born before 2009 you won’t be banned from smoking, the government, unusually supported by the opposition, are trying to stop young people becoming addicted to the toxic poisonous habit of smoking by banning the sale of tobacco to anyone born after 2009. And, having seen the effects of smoking first hand on a cancer ward, cancer of the throat and mouth amongst others with bits of face and tongue removed to prevent the spread of the disease for once, if it stops people from smoking, Rishi Sunak gets my support.
Riding motorbikes can be dangerous, will they be next on the nanny state hit list?
They already are and have been for years , In fact , All private personal transport is on their hit list.
Case in point the uk is no longer part of the EU but still follow their rulings eg: Euro5 etc`
Commercial flights and motorcycles, yes. These things both give you a bird's eye view and let you see the bigger picture. Over 88% of land in the UK is not built upon and is unavailable for development. But look around you and it's crowded, right? They want feudalism and nothing else. If your world is in a 15 minute radius, you will never see that. But the luxuries and largesse THEY enjoy is simply incredible. All at our cost.
Is it right that all your trains are still Diesel, because it’s to expensive to change to electric , so they are not worrying about your health !
beer is next for the ban
This is happening across the western world. Dont know about you guys But I'm an adult and I'm sovereign I dont need govt telling me what I can and cant do. If you cause no loss, harm or injury to anyone else there's no crime. Do not give any details away about yourself. Politely tell the copper if he's asking for them be on his way.
addicts don't make choices and children under 15 can't smoke anyway so it won't be anything that they'll miss.
It's all about control Paul. Nothing to do with anything else. They certainly don't care about our health. As far as having a pint in concerned, try coming down to Hampshire you need a bank loan to have one down here!
I don't mind folks smoking heavily as long as they and not me pay for any smoking related diseases they may incur. I was never dim enough to start smoking in the first place.
They are paying up front via the heavy taxes imposed on tobacco products - in the UK at least.
@@paulhenshaw4514 I'm not sure even the heavy tax quite covers it. Having said that prohibition did a lot for drinking in America........
Think about it covid flue cold weather hot weather redmeat vegetables terrorist cars bikes trains boats diets medicine everything's out to get you according to the g men we should all stop listening to the crap we get told and live our life with one rule DO NO HARM and just ay no more often
Dave Alan once said about smoking “I drink, but I don’t piss up your leg.”
If you want to smoke, fine. But not in outside seating areas of cafes and pubs. It ruins it for the majority that don’t smoke. Also, when was the last time a smoker actually asked those around them if they minded them smoking?
Here’s a heads-up smokers… you stink.
Its starting to feel like north korea 🙄
Too many do gooders who think they know better than you and what’s good for you.
Good on ya mate. i think i'll do the same thing. wonder how many others will do it. cheers Rishi i could do with a nicotine hit😃 oh and Rishi get bent!
You can argue that if less or no one smoked, waiting lists would be shorter, more beds would be free, and the cost to the health service would be a lot lower. You could also argue that having a healthier population would generate more taxes, covering the shortfall from cig taxes, as they would be more active and purchase more services and stuff..... because they are living longer and healthier. My grandfather smoked, died before his time because of it. My dad smoked, got cancer and died before his time. Do yourself a favour, bin the cigs, there's bikes to be fixed 👍
You could argue that we are taxed from the day we are born until the day we die and that the NHS is there to help us regardless of how we injure ourselves. As for fixing Bikes, what happens when the Government determine that injured motorcyclists are costing the NHS too much money? You'll be happy to see motorcycling banned because the injuries are mostly self inflicted?
I don’t understand why a libertarian ( no rules for us plenty for you) government who presumably are well in bed with the tobacco companies would even consider such an idea. Making something illegal clearly doesn’t work otherwise we’d have no smack problem. And it just enables criminal activity. Where do you stop. Biking? Horse riding ( no cos that’s for them by and large) rock climbing? Public education is the way forward, informed choice with people educated in a manner to let them become able to make such choices.
PS Isn't Tabacco good for you? Isn't it just the chemicals in the cigarettes that make it burn "better " bad for you?
I'm just as p*ssed off as you are Paul but for slightly different reasons.. I do smoke and have spent a good while now talking myself into stopping, I'd just made my mind up and declared a date to stop to my family, but now Sunak says I HAVE to stop I really don't want to.. In effect Sunak's proposed totalitarian legislation has provoked me into not stopping smoking... It's just another step towards living in huge mud hut cities with no heating and intermittent electricity.. (look it up, they're now trialling houses built using compacted MUD as the main constituent of the walls..)
You don't look old enough to smoke Paul 😂😂
Thank you!
Wishy washy will be gone by Christmas
Who will take his place though? God help us if Starmer takes over!
But smoking meth in public is ok!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Smoking has been pushed as “cool” for years. How many back handers to film and tv directors to include the hero smoking? Tobacco companies make huge profits but know the health problems. They do not care.
The ban is going to be for people born on or after 2009,still wrong though
Aye.. It'll start there but God knows where it ends.
Why are you complaining? It will not affect you. It’s The biggest cause of avoidable deaths. I used to smoke, best thing I ever did was give up forty years ago.
It’s great not to suffer the stink in the pub too.
Worth noting the cross party support.
he's not banning you it's for kids born after 1st January 2009 which is unenforcible, taxes for ciggerrets is less than nhs cost for smokers being treated
They don’t want to ban you from smoking. They want to ensure your grandchildren never have the option to start smoking, which seems perfectly fair enough to me.
Smoking isn't just a lifestyle choice if you expect the rest of us to pay for your health care.
you are looking at it wrong people should pay for their own health care
When they eventually get their way and bann smoking our lovely Chancellor is going to have a massive void in his coffers and he's gonna want to need to fill that void. Now just how is he gonna do that?!.. More duty on drink and petrol for starters would probably be right... The joy police are destroying life....