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 Jan 2 2010, 09:15 AM
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Smoking is like drinking - people get very angry when you try to legislate around it. Complaints start up about a nanny state and suchlike. Oxford has become a 20mph zone and that has made a lot of people angry, so telling them that they can't smoke either would create a lot of offenders.
I guess it comes down to a balance: is the increase in safety worth criminalising an even larger part of the public? -------------------- Trouble Down Pit: Still updated every Monday and Friday
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Jan 2 2010, 11:40 AM
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I think it is, when the prohibition is reasonable and if it's something enforcible like speed limits. For things like mobile phone use while driving I think horrible ads (like the drunk driving ones) will do a better job of changing people's attitudes than fining them.
-------------------- Kung fu fighting from 25th April 2010
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Jan 2 2010, 05:11 PM
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Sorry Mat as nice as that would be I think it's wishfull thinking, I do agree that the adds help but taking money off people is what will more likely make them thing twice yes it won't help their attitude and they'll resent it but they're more like to think 'Oh I might get fined and points on my licence' than they are going to think 'Ooo! I might crash!' people just don't want to think like that. Perhaps if they increase the lower end of the fine some more people may actually considering not doing it, but I doubt it. I worked for a chronic phone-in-car user and she just didn't think about it at all, even with her kids in the car.
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Jan 2 2010, 08:02 PM
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Has been kidnapped by gerbils and forced to post on here repeatedly Group: Established Members Posts: 1,088 Joined: 18-September 03 From: London Member No.: 606 Gender: Female |
Yeah that's what I mean - the chances of getting caught are so small nobodys going to even think about it unless it happens to them.
-------------------- Kung fu fighting from 25th April 2010
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