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Originally Posted by BetterRed
Cigarette packets cannot be on display in stores, must be in a plain closed door cabinets, no self serve or vending machines. Packets look like this - warning not pleasant sight. Big Tobacco fought very hard to overturn the law that bought that about. I suspect they were intending to try using TTIP to overturn the decisions of our High court, HK court, Ecuador court, WTO court etc upholding the laws, but that got Trumpled on 
No smoking in any workplace, or any transport including taxis (Uber ??), there is a proposal to outlaw smoking in your car if you have any minors on board. No smoking at bus stops, train station or ferry wharves - no smoking in some public parks.
No smoking inside pubs or clubs, including the gambling rooms, if they have outdoor seating you can smoke there. Not sure about the casinos, never been in one, and my neighbour, who works in one, is not allowed in the gambling areas so she doesn't know either I would imagine patrons of the high roller dens can smoke.
Most of our state governments are addicted to gambling revenues, particularly the one I'm sitting in.
And lastly taxes - by 2020 a packet of 20 cigarettes will cost at least $40.
I can envisage a day when some publicly funded health care (heart surgery, cancer treatment etc) will only be available to non-smokers. Some surgery is already rationed informally on the whim of the surgeons.
BR |
Many of our laws are similar but it varies by city. I think California already has that car law.
Taxes are why we quit smoking (or more precisely are protesting the $1 a pack tax they added 11 years ago come January 1.)