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Bill: Smokers' Rights Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Unified Communist Labor 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: May 2058
Description[?]:
| To loosen restrictions on public smoking in the interest of personal freedom. |
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 all places of employment.
Proposed: Smoking is legal everywhere, at the discretion of the property owner, but is illegal in government-owned buildings.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 02:29:35, May 26, 2005 CET | From |  Democratic Socialists of Endralon | To | Debating the Smokers' Rights Act |
| Message | We oppose this bill due to the evidence that passive smoking can be harmful to other members of the public who are non smokers themselves and we believe all people should be free to enter public locations without facing the dangers of lung cancer. |
| Date | 02:37:33, May 26, 2005 CET | From | Unified Communist Labor Party | To | Debating the Smokers' Rights Act |
| Message | I agree, but the members of our party took a vote and decided to support this proposal. |
| Date | 05:45:35, May 26, 2005 CET | From | MLC Old Endralonian Resistance | To | Debating the Smokers' Rights Act |
| Message | even without the risk of lung cancer the anti social qualities of smoking cause pain and suffering although temporary to those in the public domain, The MLC considers this passive assault and will not accept it in public areas. |
| Date | 12:05:27, May 26, 2005 CET | From | Delete This Party!!! | To | Debating the Smokers' Rights Act |
| Message | Define public area's though - a park is a public area but thanks to being open-air is ventilated enough to diminish the risks of passive smoking. It should be allowed in some public places. By voting yes, I am voting to give public places the choice of whether smoking is allowed. |
| Date | 16:23:41, May 26, 2005 CET | From | MLC Old Endralonian Resistance | To | Debating the Smokers' Rights Act |
| Message | I think to truly understand the effects of this bill you have to look at how it will be implemented. Are police likely to be scouring every park corner and back alley for smokers ? I doubt it . This law is merely a means to force smokers to chose smoking locations which will not cause complaint . |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 217 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 291 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 37 |
| Random fact: It is not allowed to call more than 5 elections in 5 game years in a nation. The default sanction for a player persisting in the early election tactic will be a seat reset. |
| Random quote: "While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State." - Vladimir Lenin |