Will We Become A Fitter Country If Labour Gets In?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2619655/Labours-nanny-state-plan-drinkers-smokers-unhealthy-eaters-sparks-revolt-party-Red-Ed-says-FORCE-fit.html

What I can't understand is if Miliband’s goal is that children born in 2015 will become the first smoke-free generation for hundreds of years, why is there no mention in his plans to make the sale of tobacco illegal?

[anotheoldgit]

/// To make Britain ‘smoke free’ he would ban smoking in cars with children and introduce plain standardised cigarette packets. And Mr Miliband would treat the tobacco industry as a pariah, refusing to have any contact with it. ///

/// ‘Labour should become the country’s first “tobacco-free” political party, rejecting sponsorship or donations from the tobacco industry or their front organisations,’ says the document. ///

[ummmm]

There shouldn't need to be a ban on smoking in cars. I would have thought that was common sense.

I have two teenage boys and I would guess that 50% of their friends smoke. The only way to stop kids smoking is to ban it.

I know that hasn't stopped drug addicts but the vast majority, imo, won't go out of their way to try a drug that doesn't actually give you a high...

[Svejk]

///Will all men then have to have a haircut like him as well????///
lol

[anotheoldgit]

ummmm

/// There shouldn't need to be a ban on smoking in cars. I would have thought that was common sense. ///

Don't get me started on today's approach at 'common sense'.

[New Judge]

Before introducing any new laws government (of any persuasion) should concentrate on effectively enforcing the ones we already have. As far as behaviour in cars is concerned far better that steps are taken urgently to properly enforce the ban on using phones whilst driving. The contempt for this law is absolutely rife. I travelled as a passenger round a stretch of the M25 last Friday and I would estimate that the proportion of drivers sodding about with phones at 70mph was well in excess of one in three. Personally I would rather that was stopped (because it endangers the safety of many non-phone users who are prepared to obey the law) than any resource put into restricting smoking (which only effects the occupants of the vehicle).

As has been said, the way to attempt to make the UK “tobacco free“ is to prevent its import, processing and sale. It still won’t make the country entirely free of the stuff but messing about with motoring laws is not the answer.

[youngmafbog]

Interesting policy, if it comes about.
So he will attack smokers drinkers and fast food eh? I am sure labour voters will love that.
It will be interesting to see the lefts reactiongiven the protests from the left on the pasty tax.

[Gromit]

Most of the stuff on that list have been proposed by Cameron

- Minimum alcohol pricing
- Plain Cig packets
- Ban on smoking in cars with children present.

Cameron has made U-turns on most of his ideas because he has been nobbled by lobbyists working for the Drinks and Cigarett Industries.

I assume something similar would happen to miliband and the next Government.

[tamborine]

Who is half the population that has the energy & time, TGUnwashed? Will that be free health club membership ?