City to ban smoking in play parks
Smoking is on the verge of being banned in children's play areas in Glasgow after it was approved by the council's parks committee. Anyone caught lighting up could in extreme cases face a fine of up to £200. When introduced the ban will operate in parks and council-run playgrounds in housing estates. Parks convener, Councillor Aileen Colleran, said: "We decided it'd be a good idea to limit the exposure children have to smoking - both passive smoking and seeing it as a bad example."
Source: BBC News (1 March 2006)
posted by Simon Clark @ 17:33
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"We decided it'd be a good idea to limit the exposure children have to smoking - both passive smoking and seeing it as a bad example."
Are they kidding? This is Glasgow for crying out loud!
It's the children that will be doing all the smoking!
"We decided it'd be a good idea to limit the exposure children have to smoking - both passive smoking and seeing it as a bad example."
But, due to the dictatorship of this government, parents are left with no option but to smoke at home in front of their kids! What complete and utter lunacy. The government take away the pleasure that many adults get from smoking whilst having a sociable drink or meal and drive them into staying at home to smoke around the children - they then ban smoking in and around playgrounds 'to limit the exposure' of these same children! Well, the same parents that are staying home to smoke because they cannot go out and smoke will not be taking their children to the park, will they!
Watch out for the further debates on child obesity. What will they ban then, all food except lettuce, tomatoes, apples, pears and bananas?
Believe me, as soon as I possibly can I will be leaving this cesspit of a country to move to one where a little sanity still prevails.
As car fumes are more toxic and dangerous than cigarette smoke I assume that children will not be transported to the park in them and that all anti smokers will hence forth ride bikes.
Nico
Do ASh and The Anti supporters not see that BANNING things makes it more appealing to children. You only need to see the illegal drug culture in this country. Surely you do not need proof of that. No figures plucked out of the air no untruths. I think lying to children and giving one sided views is far worse than them seeing adults smoking outside.
To extend the ban outdoors is probably unlawful. Someone with enough wealth, should take this Council to the courts. If the Scottish legislation is couched in similar terms to the proposed English law, then only an 'appropriate national authority' can decide on what may be a 'smoke-free' outdoor area. (There are rules and conditions, and the intention is obviously to include bus-shelters, railway platforms and the like.) Councils do not have title to publicly owned property in the same way that a private landlord does, and cannot go around acting autonomously as if they did. It is about time that the courts reined in these immoral zealots! Surely, there must be someone in Glasgow with the resources to do that.
A couple of weeks back, the Sunday Herald was reporting similar proposals for the entire Cairngorms National "Park" !
So it seems the mountains are no longer to be a source & inspiration to freedom for future generations. :(
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