Cigarette permit

[Logger]

 Reformed smokers are the worst. They don't agree with the price of them or banning them until they have given up and that is because they know they could easily return to smoking.

 

Seriously, perhaps some people would but I had a really nasty health scare which frightened me enough to NEVER touch one again.

 

I've been 'clean' for 3 years now

[loulou]

You have done really well Logger and should be very proud that you gave up after 14 years.  I have never smoked but a lot of my friends do and they all say they wish they could stop. 

My mother smoked for over 30 years and gave up after seeing a tv programme about lung cancer.

[MayRae]

Congratulations Logger.

From one ex-smoker to another. I smoked for quite a while too, about 12 years when I come to count it up. I would never go back to smoking, because I remember how much better I felt once I'd been stopped for a few months.

I also have lots of friends who smoke and wish they could quit. Most of them wish they'd never started in the first place. And all of them say that cigarettes are too expensive. Then light another.

[oldspice]

The troubel with ideas like this is that they create an underground demand and supply of illegal substances.

[smurfboy]

Your civil liberties do need to be respected and it does seem very draconian.

One point to consider however.

What about the rights of children who have to share a house with smoking parents/guardians?

I agree parents shouldn't smoke around their kids, but this permit wouldn't prevent that.

[loulou]

What will happen for non smokers who usually go to the shop and purchase cigarettes for people who are housebound?

They'll need a permit.

[smurfboy]

What will happen for non smokers who usually go to the shop and purchase cigarettes for people who are housebound?

If they're so ill that they're housebound, they shouldn't be smoking.

[Jamsi]

If they're so ill that they're housebound, they shouldn't be smoking.

Maybe that is the only pleasure they have in their life!

Maybe that is the only pleasure they have in their life!

[loulou]

That's very cruel. What if someone has no legs but wants a cigarette?

[oldspice]

Home delivery?

 

[loulou]

I think that once the permit is introduced it will be swiped each time a purchase is made and will all be logged so the goverment will then be wondering how the unemployed afford cigarettes. I hope it helps catch all these fiddling dole scroungers who seem to have more cash to spend than people who work.

[smurfboy]

Maybe that is the only pleasure they have in their life!