Smokers will soon be stopped and asked to take a breath test to try to shock them into quittingPosted on 09/18/2008 12:16:51 PM PDT by BGHater
Smokers will be stopped in the street and asked to take a carbon monoxide test in London's most hard-hitting anti-smoking campaign.
'Smoking police' will target people at betting shops, bus stops and shopping centres to shock them into giving up cigarettes.
They will be asked to breathe into a monitor to show how much carbon monoxide is in their bodies, and could then be signed up to local stop-smoking services and given access to counsellors.
Pro-smoking group Forest described the campaign as a humiliating infringement of civil liberties.
Ealing Primary Care Trust, which is funding the £75,000 scheme, said it could help 2,400 people to give up.
A team of 11 young people have been employed to approach smokers, in a similar way to charity fund-raisers - nicknamed 'chuggers' - who ask passers-by for donations.
Project spokeswoman Fran Pearce admitted: 'They will have to be careful when approaching smokers in case they become aggressive, but we are interested to see how it pans out. If someone says no, they will not pressure them to take the test.'
Project manager Phil Robinson of Ealing Stop Smoking-Service said: 'The law to ban smoking in public places was hugely effective, but since then some focus has been lost.
Smokers will soon be stopped and asked to take a breath test to try to shock them into quitting
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I’m going to start smoking and go to England just for this program. Someone comes up to me they’ll get a facefull of second hand smoke.
Ping!
They should be more concerned with the Islamic takeover of their country- but thats just me
How about if they say F*&@ off!
Hitler worked real hard on the “smoking problem” too...
First they came for the smokers and I didn’t care because I didn’t smoke.
Then they came for the drinkers and I didn’t care because I didn’t drink.
Then they came for the hamburger eaters and I didn’t care because I didn’t eat hamburgers.
Then they came for the couch potatos and there was no one left to defend me.
(With apologies to whoever.)
Smokers will be stopped in the street and asked to take a carbon monoxide test i
And hopefully will tell the person that stopped them to F.O.
No I do not smoke.
I don’t smoke either. But this is nazi.
Looking forward to my Perdomo Maduro reserve when I get home.
If one of these freaks approached me with that gizmo I'd advise him that he didn't want that thing sticking in his lower body orifice he'd better get it out of my face.
“How about if they say F*&@ off!”
I believe a true Brit might say: “Get stuffed!” :)
Miss, how come your burqa is smoking...Oh, #@#$!
I would NOT want the job of telling Britons they can’t smoke. These people are going to need mental rehabilitation and a witness protection program after the smokers I know are through with them.
Fixed it.
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“Smokers will be stopped in the street and asked to take a carbon monoxide test”
I would give them a good beat down (and I don’t smoke).
Yo! I'm ah...I'm tryin' ta get peoples ta blow sometin', too!
Maybe yous kin like, help edumacate 'em an' like,
do a little demonstration!
No, other one works just fine... They say the British Empire’s two most important global legacies were the spread of association football, and that particular anglo-saxon phrase....
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