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Bill: Decentralizing Smoking and Tobacco Policy
Details
Submitted by[?]: Council on Mordusian Liberalism
Status[?]: passed
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: January 4758
Description[?]:
| Smoking and the use of tobacco is intrinsically localized and differs based on the culture of the area, and therefore the legality of such should be decided by the local authorities. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards smoking.
Old value:: Smoking is prohibited.
Current: Smoking is legal outdoors and in private homes and clubs, but illegal indoors in all places of employment.
Proposed: Smoking regulations are to be determined by local governments.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Sale of tobacco products.
Old value:: The sale of tobacco products is prohibited.
Current: There are certain restrictions on the sale of tobacco and only adults may purchase tobacco.
Proposed: The sale of tobacco products is regulated by local governments
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 15:13:21, May 17, 2020 CET | From | Alliance Party | To | Debating the Decentralizing Smoking and Tobacco Policy |
| Message | The CML will find an ally in one of our parliamentary parties with whom there has been extensive debate in recent years. The Alliance will repeat its previous argument: 1. Smoking is not quite the same as other harmful substances in that the argument that people should have the right and freedom to do what they like with their own bodies has to be balanced with the harm which their habit can do to others in society. In the case of passive smoking, the Alliance believes that the rights of the other (multiple) people affected by one single smoker outweigh the single individual's rights. 2. There is a huge public health cost to all tax-payers inflicted upon them by the argument that smokers have the right to do so - only to develop cancers and other health problems which need to be treated. 3. The argument is clear-cut for the Alliance anyway based on the above. But it is doubly so once the ban has been long established as it has been in Mordusia. Potentially millions of citizens will have given up the habit when they were forced to do so - and the majority may well be happier (and certainly healthier) for doing so. Would the CML now encourage them to take up the habit again? Yet that is what their proposal will effectively end up doing. |
| Date | 15:28:45, May 17, 2020 CET | From | Liberal Democratic Party | To | Debating the Decentralizing Smoking and Tobacco Policy |
| Message | Might we respectively ask the alliance to reconsider the following principle; if local government has the right to decide on the legality of smoking, then there is a mandatory for the prohibition or legalisation directly from the voters of the region. EG; in the LDP held state, we would legalise the sale of tobacco. However understandably in the alliance states, the people have voted overwhelmingly for a party who openly rejects the legalisation and so the mandate is there for that decision. |
| Date | 15:42:34, May 17, 2020 CET | From | Alliance Party | To | Debating the Decentralizing Smoking and Tobacco Policy |
| Message | So the LDP wants citizens' addiction to smoking to be turned on and off with each change of party at each election??? |
| Date | 09:00:52, May 21, 2020 CET | From | Council on Mordusian Liberalism | To | Debating the Decentralizing Smoking and Tobacco Policy |
| Message | It is gross to insinuate the CML encourages anyone to take up a habit that has proven to be detrimental to them. |
| Date | 09:02:32, May 21, 2020 CET | From | Council on Mordusian Liberalism | To | Debating the Decentralizing Smoking and Tobacco Policy |
| Message | It is gross to insinuate the CML encourages anyone to take up a habit that has proven to be detrimental to them. |
| Date | 09:02:33, May 21, 2020 CET | From | Council on Mordusian Liberalism | To | Debating the Decentralizing Smoking and Tobacco Policy |
| Message | It is gross to insinuate the CML encourages anyone to take up a habit that has proven to be detrimental to them. |
| Date | 09:02:33, May 21, 2020 CET | From | Council on Mordusian Liberalism | To | Debating the Decentralizing Smoking and Tobacco Policy |
| Message | It is gross to insinuate the CML encourages anyone to take up a habit that has proven to be detrimental to them. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 217 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 148 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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