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Bill: The Smoking Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Chinkopodian Economic Democrats
Status[?]: defeated
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: August 2087
Description[?]:
| If one is to ban cannabis, one should, by the same principles, also ban smoking. Smoking can be far worse for the health than cannabis - seeing as there's no evidence that cannabis has any lasting malicious effects. I do not propose this bill because cannabis is banned, before you ask, but to avoid the flushing of money down the drain. People cry "My right to smoke!!!!111!!!!11!!!", however, when the right to smoke means that millions and millions of Darnussian Rupans are being wasted due to large numbers of smokers admitted to our already-clogged fully-nationalised health service (no thanks to commie). If smoking was banned it would improve everyone's health, stop money eing wasted, and what's more, you should have no problem with it seeing as you've already banned cannabis! |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards smoking.
Old value:: Smoking is legal outdoors and in private homes and clubs, but illegal indoors in places of employment, with the exception of places that primarily serve liquor.
Current: Smoking is legal everywhere, at the discretion of the property owner, and is legal in government-owned buildings.
Proposed: Smoking is legal outdoors and in private homes and clubs, but illegal indoors in all places of employment.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 19:03:18, July 27, 2005 CET | From | Social Democratic Party | To | Debating the The Smoking Bill |
| Message | Yeeeaaaaaahhhh....but good luck getting on the good side of public opinion if you outlaw cigarettes. I'd like to do so, but it's kinda stupid to do so when we still have a chunky amount of smokers remaining. |
| Date | 20:33:12, July 27, 2005 CET | From | Chinkopodian Economic Democrats | To | Debating the The Smoking Bill |
| Message | Well actually, I don't know whether or not this would badly affect public opinion (regardless, for me it can hardly get worse). In any RL nation, it would be greeted with a reception far from warm, but in Darnussia, judging by the way the game works and the green thing on the nation page, it may not be so bad...... |
| Date | 20:33:54, July 27, 2005 CET | From | Chinkopodian Economic Democrats | To | Debating the The Smoking Bill |
| Message | [the opinion bars] |
| Date | 20:52:40, July 27, 2005 CET | From | Chinkopodian Economic Democrats | To | Debating the The Smoking Bill |
| Message | [the opinion bars] |
| Date | 13:00:51, July 28, 2005 CET | From | Chinkopodian Economic Democrats | To | Debating the The Smoking Bill |
| Message | Well....here we go.... |
| Date | 17:51:09, July 28, 2005 CET | From | Social Democratic Party | To | Debating the The Smoking Bill |
| Message | I'll abstain until I think of something. |
| Date | 19:00:43, July 28, 2005 CET | From | Chinkopodian Economic Democrats | To | Debating the The Smoking Bill |
| Message | Lol. Everyone's voting no....but none of the anti-cannabis bunch are explaining their blatant hypocrisy. |
| Date | 00:29:23, July 29, 2005 CET | From | Social Libertarian party | To | Debating the The Smoking Bill |
| Message | I don't agree with outlawing any drug. |
| Date | 00:30:40, July 29, 2005 CET | From | Social Libertarian party | To | Debating the The Smoking Bill |
| Message | Everyone's like "Let's smoke" but "Oh, let's make a drug that's LESS harmful illegal." |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||||
| yes | Total Seats: 42 | |||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 708 | |||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Don't put "the" as the first word in your party name, because when parties are referred to in news reports, their names are preceded with "the", e.g. the [Socialist Party] has lost. |
| Random quote: "If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose." - Ayn Rand |