tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post223434226183699080..comments2024-01-01T16:01:35.711+00:00Comments on Dick Puddlecote: Is Honduras Unlocking Your Home's Door To Tobacco Control?Dick Puddlecotehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-13036108885271491012011-02-26T11:04:27.874+00:002011-02-26T11:04:27.874+00:00Weird how they can get police to 'deal with...Weird how they can get police to 'deal with' smokers when they are not actually breaking the law. ASH Scotland could learn lessons here: http://www.ashscotland.org.uk/alliances/scottish-tobacco-control-alliance-(stca)/smokefree-homes-and-cars,-3rd-march-2011Belindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16284836559314332001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-9139192574875503992011-02-26T09:23:05.902+00:002011-02-26T09:23:05.902+00:00You could be right junican. Give them enough rope ...You could be right junican. Give them enough rope and they may well hang themselves. I already see potential opportunities in the fact that companies are adopting a policy of not hiring smokers. Although this is blatant discrimination, the authorities seem to be turning a blind eye to it. Once it becomes accepted practice, I think it would be difficult for the powers-that-be to prosecute an employer who adopted a "smokers only" hiring policy. After all, it's only the other side of the same coin. Since the smoking ban is (in theory) predicated on the health aspects of SHS with regard to employees, presumably if one had a "smokers only" hiring policy then the reasons for the ban on that employers premises would be negated. This could then provide a platform for a legal challenge against the blanket ban. These are just idle thoughts of mine, and I may have missed something in my reasoning - I'm not a legal beagle - but it's perhaps something that could be refined and brought to bear on the situation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-37047003922960980832011-02-26T02:33:34.408+00:002011-02-26T02:33:34.408+00:00Honduras is very much an American place. It does n...Honduras is very much an American place. It does not surprise me one bit that this has happened - a pretty cool first step - very clever. I wonder how many palms have been greased? <br /><br />Frankly, I welcome this development. Sooner or later, Tobacco Control will go too far. It will not be in Honduras. Sooner or later, the shit will hit the fanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-27276383715083661562011-02-25T22:22:38.365+00:002011-02-25T22:22:38.365+00:00Anon - I've never made that distinction but it...Anon - I've never made that distinction but it makes a hell of a lot of sense.<br />Food for thought thereBuckohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03169970711606515445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-25475898972477991242011-02-25T21:43:39.736+00:002011-02-25T21:43:39.736+00:00Bucko,
I have always thought that, perversely, co...Bucko,<br /><br />I have always thought that, perversely, communism was the greatest defence of our freedoms. As long as the free west politicians were critical of communism and their despotic control and lack of freedom they could and would never impose a similar oppression on their own people. When the wall fell the whole dynamic changed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-74668488354874036442011-02-25T20:34:07.448+00:002011-02-25T20:34:07.448+00:00It's wierd that communism dominoed and democra...It's wierd that communism dominoed and democracy is trying to take up the slack.<br />Particularly at the same time that autonomous dictators in the middle east are getting their arses whooped.<br />Are we going full circle so western civilisations eventually become the oppressed and freedom reigns in the middle east and the ex communist bloc.<br />Untill it all goes around again?Buckohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03169970711606515445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-76153665686370982302011-02-25T20:08:22.629+00:002011-02-25T20:08:22.629+00:00"They were obviously not thinking as imaginat..."They were obviously not thinking as imaginatively as their counterparts in a confused Central American backwater, were they?<br /><br />Predictably, the unelected WHO think it just doesn't go far enough."<br /><br />Well, who do you think is behind all of this insanity in the first place? It appears to be straight up collusion between the WHO and Big Pharma, at the expense of freedom and autonomy for the rest of us. These people are despots, plain and simple. Oh, if only the world new.jredheadgirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11078082563556309444noreply@blogger.com