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Bill: Tabaco Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Paraplu 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: April 2339
Description[?]:
| No more Tabaco. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Sale of tobacco products.
Old value:: Only adults may purchase tobacco.
Current: There are certain restrictions on the sale of tobacco and only adults may purchase tobacco.
Proposed: The sale of tobacco products is prohibited.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 08:54:09, January 02, 2007 CET | From | Paraplu party | To | Debating the Tabaco Act |
| Message | Tabaco is one of the worst things you can put in your body. It can be worse than Marijuana or even Heroine! It has no Medical use, and can even be bad for the mental state of the user. It can lower the life expectancy of users, and people around them; if we the government are to serve our people, then it is a necessary to watch over them and protect them like a parent does their child! We cannot sit back as they slowly kill themselves with something that does nothing for them in return. This terrible drug must be outlawed! |
| Date | 15:22:09, January 02, 2007 CET | From | Baltusian Pantian Alliance | To | Debating the Tabaco Act |
| Message | We have a history of letting people do whatever they want with their own bodies, because if your stupid enough to kill yourself with it the BPA doesent want you alive anyways. |
| Date | 18:50:36, January 02, 2007 CET | From | Paraplu party | To | Debating the Tabaco Act |
| Message | That is terrible. The BPA clearly doesn't care about the people of this country, now let us open the voting! |
| Date | 01:01:04, January 03, 2007 CET | From |  Txurruka/Aperribai/Mayoz's OPX | To | Debating the Tabaco Act |
| Message | Well I think trying to end public healthcare and trying restrict the freedoms of speech and of being able to do whatever you want without hurting anyone else is a horrific crime against humanity but you don't see me decrying your party. Yet. "It can be worse than Marijuana or even Heroine!" Marijuana releases four time more tar into your lungs than cigarettes. Heroin (note the lack of an e) isn't generally smoked, so its hard to make a comparison. I would certainly think the raging addicting, the suppression of appetite, etc would probably make the big H worse than nicotine, which only causes cancer after twenty years of smoking and is easier, relatively, to kick the habit of. "It can lower the life expectancy of users" No shit. So does driving a car but you don't try to ban that. "and people around them" What are they, glued to the ground? Can't walk away? "then it is a necessary to watch over them and protect them like a parent does their child" Actually, that is the opposite of what a government should do. Adults, people, citizens are capable of making their own judgement. Your proposal is a road to a totalitarian hell-hole. Then again, BPA leadership would lead us to a totalitarian hell-hole but at least we'd have porn and drugs. |
| Date | 02:29:00, January 03, 2007 CET | From | Paraplu party | To | Debating the Tabaco Act |
| Message | first of all, yes, i do see you decrying my party. Marijuana does do some things worse than tabaco, but in the long term tabbaco can (note i say can) be worse in the long run. Smoking almost Guarantees a shorter life. Driving does far from that. So people must go somewhere else, even though they might really want to be where they are? It was a metaphor not meant to be taken entirely litaraly. I just meant it's our job to take care of them and make sure they don't hut themselves. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 0 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 100 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Any RP law granting extraordinary "emergency powers" or dictator-like powers to a government must be passed by at least a 2/3rds majority, but (like all RP laws) may always be overturned by a simple majority vote of the legislature. |
| Random quote: "The key to understanding the American system is to imagine that you have the power to make nearly any law you want, but your worst enemy will be the one to enforce it." - Rick Cook |