Chrocket87 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 14, 2022 10:58 pm
MotorCityRadioFreak wrote: ↑Tue Dec 13, 2022 11:36 pm
I think we will see an influx of Aussie cig smugglers to New Zealand very soon. Give people a reason to quit: offer lower cost healthcare options for those who quite smoking.
Doesn’t NZ have universal healthcare? If so, the long-term effects of banning tobacco would likely save taxpayers quite a bit.
I completely support banning public smoking and even smoking with children in a vehicle. I’m ok with people smoking in a private place without getting the secondhand smoke on everyone else.
See, I think you're on to something here. And it sort of proves the point that, if people could just be counted on to do the right thing personally, we wouldn't need things like bans and regulations.
I'm a smoker. I hate it. I'd give anything to quit. And I make sure my stepdaughters know how disgusting and how expensive a habit it is.
I don't smoke in the house. Ever. For anything. -20 outside? Bundle up. Forget ever lighting up in the car with the kids, and smoking is not allowed in my wife's car. If I want a cigarette, I step outside, away from everyone. It's just common sense and common courtesy.
My father smoked. In the house. In the car. With us kids. I can remember being eight years old and sick with a bad cold, and he sat in the living room where I was laying down and proceeded to puff away. Can we use the "different time" excuse? Maybe. But what I do know is that my addiction doesn't need to be anyone else's problem. I keep the butt can clean, the ashtray clean, I'm not a pig about it. I don't feel the need to pull the "I HAVE A RIGHT!!!!" card.
It's kind of like anything else. If people just had a sense of decency...........