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Bill: Smoking
Details
Submitted by[?]: Free Movement of Gaduridos
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: September 2380
Description[?]:
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Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards smoking.
Old value:: Smoking is prohibited.
Current: Smoking is legal outdoors and in private homes and clubs, but illegal indoors in all places of employment.
Proposed: Smoking is legal everywhere, at the discretion of the property owner. However, service/employer property owners that allow smoking must provide a separate non-smoking section.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:36:20, March 22, 2007 CET | From | Free Movement of Gaduridos | To | Debating the Smoking |
| Message | AGain, we believe that this is the right course of action, we acknolodge the 2nd hand smoke threat But we do minimize the risk with the seperate section part of our proposal |
| Date | 14:29:22, March 23, 2007 CET | From | Gaduridos Dictatorship Radical Party | To | Debating the Smoking |
| Message | Better. |
| Date | 18:27:55, March 23, 2007 CET | From | Gaduri Resistencia | To | Debating the Smoking |
| Message | Smoking processed cigarettes is far more harmful than most naturally occurring drugs, and not only to the user, but you are opposed to legalising those. Still, this is probably better than an outright ban, although I'd prefer it to be illegal in places of employment. |
| Date | 21:20:52, March 23, 2007 CET | From | Free Movement of Gaduridos | To | Debating the Smoking |
| Message | This iswhat were sticking with if its the best option In everyones opinion. But before we put it to vote Mollusc I want to know why you think its governments responsibility to make it illegal in places of employment and not leave it up the person who owns/makes desicions in that building. FMG |
| Date | 23:36:59, March 23, 2007 CET | From | Gaduri Resistencia | To | Debating the Smoking |
| Message | Purely because although the separate section part reduces the second-hand smoke risk, it does not eliminate it completely. Therefore, as far as I'm concerned, it is not the right of the individual to poison themselves I'm concerned with, but the right the right of everyone else not to be poisoned by them. As for the responsibility issue: think of it as a health and safety problem. Governments intervene to prevent workers being exposed to plenty of other dangerous chemicals in the workplace, why should those in cigarette smoke be an exception? |
| Date | 05:07:14, March 25, 2007 CET | From | Free Movement of Gaduridos | To | Debating the Smoking |
| Message | I see your point. OTOH, is it our right to tell people they cant do something to themselves. It is a responsibility issue: let the people take responsitibility for there lives. |
| Date | 12:42:07, March 25, 2007 CET | From | Gaduri Resistencia | To | Debating the Smoking |
| Message | That's not the problem. The problem is when their decisions begin to affect others. As a result I don't mind smoking at home, or in private clubs, but when it's in a place of employment where non-smoking customers and employees are going to be exposed to the smoke, then I am more concerned I know it's a slightly over-the-top comparison but I presume you value the right not to be stolen from more than the right to steal from others. In the same way, I place the right not to inhale toxic chemicals higher than the right of others to release those chemicals into the atmosphere. |
| Date | 12:30:27, March 26, 2007 CET | From | (GCCP) H.P. Sauce Committee | To | Debating the Smoking |
| Message | completely agree as long as food isn't served in the immediate vincinity |
| Date | 12:35:49, March 26, 2007 CET | From | Gaduridos Dictatorship Radical Party | To | Debating the Smoking |
| Message | Is this going to go to a vote? |
| Date | 12:36:41, March 26, 2007 CET | From | The Badger Awareness Communist Committee | To | Debating the Smoking |
| Message | Ban Smoking |
| Date | 17:48:43, March 26, 2007 CET | From | Free Movement of Gaduridos | To | Debating the Smoking |
| Message | yes |
| Date | 19:43:34, March 26, 2007 CET | From | Gaduri Resistencia | To | Debating the Smoking |
| Message | Voting yes, because it's better than the current law. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 289 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 146 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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