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Uh-Oh, We're In Trouble

06/11/2011 04:57 PM

Originally written 27/04/09

As the title says, we are in trouble. Big trouble. The government is now looking for ways to implement a smoking ban in our own homes.  The reason is, predictably, for the sake of the children as they are exposed to most second-hand smoke in the home.  Evidently, it escaped the government's notice that had they not implemented the smoking ban, there would be less smoking in the home.  Alas, such thought processes did not occur and instead they take the braindead approach of banning it everywhere.  Oh, dear.

Enclosed public spaces are smoke-free. Nova Scotia and a Californian town has banned it outdoors. Now our homes are under-threat.  The ultimate ideal is to prohibit tobacco, and the tobacco control movement has, indeed, recently admitted this.

The source for this most invasive of soon-to-be-law is biomedcentral [1], and a cursory glance tells us that this was a meeting not to determine whether smoke-free homes are justified or necessary, but instead a meeting to determine how to pass such a law.  In fact, the title itself is Action to Achieve Smoke-Free Homes - an Exploration of Experts' Views.  The second part of the title is mere damage control, do not be fooled.  The 'experts' are, in fact, experts in tobacco control:

Note the lack of objective researchers or experts.  Only anti-smokers were invited to that gathering, and the objective is written down quite clearly: to reduce home smoking: