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Bill: Anti-smoking bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Republican Coalition
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 2541
Description[?]:
| Removing this pestilence. Years of restrictions has led to fewer and fewer addicts to tobacco. These people should be removed from the drug which is killing them and harming others as swiftly as possible. |
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 outdoors and in private homes and clubs, but illegal indoors in places of employment, with the exception of places that primarily serve liquor.
Proposed: Smoking is prohibited.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Sale of tobacco products.
Old value:: Only adults may purchase tobacco.
Current: There are no regulations on the sale of tobacco.
Proposed: The sale of tobacco products is prohibited.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 11:49:17, March 01, 2008 CET | From | Christian Communist Party | To | Debating the Anti-smoking bill |
| Message | We fully support this brave move by the AUP! |
| Date | 12:49:57, March 01, 2008 CET | From | People's Radical Party | To | Debating the Anti-smoking bill |
| Message | While we applaud the intention of the bill, we feel that it is not the prerogative of the government to prevent its citizens from dying in a manner which they consciously choose and from which they - in some perverse manner - seem to derive some sort of enjoyment. |
| Date | 16:10:46, March 01, 2008 CET | From | Conservative Republican Party | To | Debating the Anti-smoking bill |
| Message | Would the GPRP favour the legalisation of euthanasia on the same grounds? |
| Date | 18:19:54, March 01, 2008 CET | From | Republican Coalition | To | Debating the Anti-smoking bill |
| Message | GPRP: They harm others too, thats the problem CRP: Not to the same extent, as it does not harm others |
| Date | 00:32:54, March 02, 2008 CET | From | People's Radical Party | To | Debating the Anti-smoking bill |
| Message | The GPRP would not favour the legalisation of euthanasia on the same grounds, as we find it inconceivable that those who wish to be euthanased would "derive some sort of enjoyment" from it. Some sort of *release* from their suffering or words to that effect, very much so, but not enjoyment. Nonetheless, we are still considering our position on this bill. Our initial statement should not be taken as an indication of wholehearted opposition should this come to a vote. |
| Date | 21:13:14, March 02, 2008 CET | From | Papas Party | To | Debating the Anti-smoking bill |
| Message | It is a fair call to call for the total illegalisation of tobacco. I think though this will not stop people smoking tobacco, and will force this to go underground. The black market will then charge whatever they want. I believe this is a good revenue source for the government and therefore the government should try and keep raps under the tobacco market. At the end of the day if people want to smoke and kill themselves in the process it is there right to. |
| Date | 08:46:55, March 03, 2008 CET | From | Republican Coalition | To | Debating the Anti-smoking bill |
| Message | It is not their right to harm others, which is what they are doing. And you overestimate the capabilities of the black market |
| Date | 15:12:51, March 03, 2008 CET | From | Revolutionary Socialist Front | To | Debating the Anti-smoking bill |
| Message | Buying/selling tobacco is not harming others. |
| Date | 19:10:54, March 03, 2008 CET | From | Republican Coalition | To | Debating the Anti-smoking bill |
| Message | No, but smoking it around others is. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 203 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 495 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 52 |
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