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Bill: Cigarette Smoking Ban

Details

Submitted by[?]: Radical Conservative Party

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: June 2101

Description[?]:

This bill has been proposed to outlaw the production, sale, use, and transportation of cigarettes in the Republic of Trigunia as it is not only extremely harmful for those who smoke it, but the ones who are near also.

Proposals

Debate

These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:

Date23:00:48, August 11, 2005 CET
From Radical Conservative Party
ToDebating the Cigarette Smoking Ban
MessageThe Radical Conservative party believes that no good comes from smoking cigarettes. A rebuttal might have occurred that alcohol has no positive outcome, but the people who choose to use alcohol are only harming themselves, whereas, as the description states, cigarette smoking harms other people near a person smoking.

Date23:14:56, August 11, 2005 CET
From Liberty Party
ToDebating the Cigarette Smoking Ban
MessageThe Liberty Party agrees that no good comes from smoking cigarettes. However, we must strongly support the argument that provided a smoker is alone or with other consenting adults, he can poison himself and his fellow pro-smoking friends as much as he likes. If someone wants to smoke in their home, they should be allowed to. This would be prohibited by your bill. If someone is walking down the street smoking, the reality is that the only person he's going to poison is himself. As libertarians, we in our party must defend a person's right to do whatever he wants provided it doesn't infringe on the rights of his neighbours.

We will be voting NO to this proposal.

Date10:45:31, August 12, 2005 CET
From Democratic Socialist Party
ToDebating the Cigarette Smoking Ban
MessageWe agree that as long as smokers are not allowed to smoke in public and can only do it in private, alone, or with other smokers or those who do not mind the smoke, it is up to their disgretion wether they want to smoke. We cannot remove people's rights this way.

Date12:12:55, August 12, 2005 CET
From Capitalist Party
ToDebating the Cigarette Smoking Ban
MessageWe agree with both the Liberty Party and the DSP

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Voting

Vote Seats
yes
 

Total Seats: 217

no
     

Total Seats: 337

abstain
  

Total Seats: 0


Random fact: "Treaty-locking", or ratifiying treaties that completely or nearly completely forbid any proposals to change laws, is not allowed. Amongst other possible sanctions, Moderation reserves the discretion to delete treaties and/or subject parties to a seat reset if this is necessary in order to reverse a treaty-lock situation.

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