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Bill: Tobacco quality label
Details
Submitted by[?]: Grand Nationalist Fraction
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: September 3674
Description[?]:
| Tobacco should be accessible to everyone. Our concern is that low-quality products might be sold. Therefore we would like to test tobacco products before allowing them to be sold, and granting these approved products a label. That way our citizens can verify the quality of their tobacco. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Sale of tobacco products.
Old value:: There are no regulations on the sale of tobacco.
Current: There are certain restrictions on the sale of tobacco and only adults may purchase tobacco.
Proposed: There are certain restrictions on the sale of tobacco products but everyone is allowed to buy them.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 10:27:43, May 30, 2014 CET | From | Federalist Party | To | Debating the Tobacco quality label |
| Message | Support |
| Date | 21:02:49, May 30, 2014 CET | From | People's Party for Freedom and Democracy | To | Debating the Tobacco quality label |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, The PPFD believes in individual freedom and responsability, and in the free market economy. If some company sells poor quality tobacco, they will go bankrupt. If someone buys poor quality tobacco, that´s their choice and their business. Making up a rule for everything you can think of will destroy our economy and our society. We will not support this bill. Elisabeth Homan, PPFD-specialist for Health and Social Services |
| Date | 21:43:53, May 30, 2014 CET | From | Grand Nationalist Fraction | To | Debating the Tobacco quality label |
| Message | Miss Homan, if some company sells poor quality tobacco at lower prices, they will not go bankrupt! Instead, our market will be flooded with cheap and dangerous goods. Our goal is, knowing that tobacco is a potential danger, to ensure that the users of tobacco get good, or at least sufficiant, quality. We believe this bill is worth supporting!!! |
| Date | 22:10:32, May 30, 2014 CET | From |  Great National Republican Guard | To | Debating the Tobacco quality label |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, We will have to side with the PPFD on this one. A reputable company can always take up the job of rating tobacco products. A good company would rate high-quality products highly and low-quality products lowly. It's a simple process. tobacco producers would go to tobacco raters to pay them to rate their products. If the tobacco raters rate the tobacco producers fairly, the consumers will trust them and their ratings more. If they rate a high-quality product lowly, the consumers will trust them less. The most successful rating company will be the one with the most trust from the consumers, which they earn by rating tobacco and tobacco products fairly. -- Rolf Orman II, Deputy Chairman of the GNRG, Trade/Industry Minister |
| Date | 04:09:52, May 31, 2014 CET | From | People's Party for Freedom and Democracy | To | Debating the Tobacco quality label |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, The lack of faith in the ability of people to watch over their own health coming from p&a shocks the PPFD. Even with a price difference, people will choose for quality. It also bugs us how in these discussions corporations are consistently portrayed as evil. As if it is the ambition to deliver poor products just for that little extra bit of profit. Also, we believe Mr. Orman of the GNRG has a valid point with the rating companies. Elisabeth Homan, PPFD-specialist for Health and Social Services; backed by Alice Nobleman, PPFD-specialist for Trade and Industry |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 195 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 404 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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