21 June 2005

Smoke gets in your eyes

English bloggers getting (justifiably) upset about the proposed smoking ban arrangements south of the border:
"Attention all petty, vindictive snitches everywhere, your country needs you: New powers effectively criminalising smoking in public were announced by the Government yesterday, with the minister in charge promising an "intelligence-led approach to enforcing the law". Informers
will be encouraged to report breaches of sweeping bans on the habit, in which company smoking rooms will be outlawed and places such as bus shelters and the outsides of office blocks made no-smoking areas.
Very little encouragement will be required as there will be no shortage of willing and zealous
'informers'.
What a horrible place this country is becoming.

I rather doubt if our home-grown smoking ban enforcement arrangements will be any less reminiscent of totalitarianism.

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