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Keir Starmer confirms he's looking at smoking ban in pub gardens and sports venues
Mirror ^ | 29 Aug 2024 | Sophie Huskisson

Posted on 08/29/2024 8:14:54 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Keir Starmer has confirmed he is looking at banning smoking from some outdoor spaces such as pub gardens.

Smoking could be banned from specified outdoor areas including outside nightclubs and restaurant terraces in a clampdown on tobacco use across the country. Ministers are said to be considering a number of policies as Mr Starmer accelerates plans to make Britain smoke-free.

The Prime Minister confirmed to journalists in Paris that he is looking at changes to smoking laws after leaked documents suggested smoking would be banned in outside sports stadiums, in children's parks, in pub gardens, outside nightclubs, on restaurant terraces, on pavements by universities and hospitals and in Shisha bars.

Asked about the reports, Mr Starmer said: "My starting point on this is to remind everybody that over 80,000 people lose their lives every year because of smoking. That is a preventable death, it's a huge burden on the NHS and, of course, it is a burden on the taxpayer.

"So, yes, we are going to take decisions in this space, more details will be revealed, but this is a preventable series of deaths and we've got to take action to reduce the burden on the NHS and the taxpayer."

The crackdown would be included in the Tobacco and Vapes Bill, which was set out in the King's Speech when Labour was elected to Government. The legislation will extend UK-wide, although the measures may be applied in different ways across the UK.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: keirstarmer; nannystate; policestate; tyrant
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1 posted on 08/29/2024 8:14:54 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Do they have sales tax on them there too?

That’s the only reason there are no public bans here. The government is the biggest drug dealer and gangster of all time.


2 posted on 08/29/2024 8:17:42 PM PDT by Celerity
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To: MinorityRepublican

Liberals often push for freedom, until they are in power. Then they become the most Victorian valued people you can imagine.


3 posted on 08/29/2024 8:18:16 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Genghis Khan did not have the most descendants. His father had more. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

Boy, these twats can’t help acting like the next Hitler. They get a little power, and they go berserk. It doesn’t sound like he ever read Dale Carnegie’s book “How to Win Friends & Influence People.”


4 posted on 08/29/2024 8:20:08 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Talk about tone deaf. While talk swirls around speculating about the end of the UK, he’s talking about smoking in public!


5 posted on 08/29/2024 8:23:07 PM PDT by Spok (Lots of protocol but nothing gets done.)
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To: Jonty30
"Then they become the most Victorian valued people you can imagine."

The Victorians were some of the biggest smokers during that period...followed by the Edwardians. Victoria's son Edward VII smoked 20 cigarettes a day and 12 cigars. His son George V smoked heavily to the point he had a lung removed, and his son George VI suffered from smoking-related illnesses in his later years. He died at the young age of 56.

Most of your big estates had Smoking Rooms where after dinner, the men retreated to smoke and drink brandy, or play billiards. They put on smoking jackets over their clothing to keep the smell of the smoke away from them.

6 posted on 08/29/2024 8:31:30 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: MinorityRepublican

What is this name Keir? Never seen it before.


7 posted on 08/29/2024 8:34:00 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: mass55th

That may be true, but that’s not what people think of when you say Victorian values. Most people think that Victorian values is the most stringent values where people had to live the most straightest life possible, monkish.


8 posted on 08/29/2024 8:36:37 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Genghis Khan did not have the most descendants. His father had more. )
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"That may be true, but that’s not what people think of when you say Victorian values."

English Victorian values were most related to morality: Prudishness, sexual restraint and Imperial grandeur.

9 posted on 08/29/2024 8:44:04 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: mass55th

That’s what I was trying to say. Smoking is a moral issue, in the mind of the liberal. That’s why, once in power, they want to ban it.


10 posted on 08/29/2024 8:49:09 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Genghis Khan did not have the most descendants. His father had more. )
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The peasants were expected to live that way, spartan, austere and bleak lives, with spirituality or kinship has their only indulgence. The more wealthy ones? “Smoke and drink and roast for me,but not so much availed to Thee!”


11 posted on 08/29/2024 8:50:56 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: MinorityRepublican
What an asshole.

12 posted on 08/29/2024 8:56:15 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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Of course, they would never consider that idea owners of the properties make the decisions rather than bureaucrats.


13 posted on 08/29/2024 8:57:29 PM PDT by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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To: lee martell

Exactly and that’s what the left wants for us.
Karl Marx didn’t want the end of the European aristocracy. He wanted to replace with himself and his co-horts. They will be privileged and the rest of Europeans will be miserable.


14 posted on 08/29/2024 8:59:12 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Genghis Khan did not have the most descendants. His father had more. )
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To: Jonty30

That’s because they’re hypocrites.


15 posted on 08/29/2024 9:01:19 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: MinorityRepublican

80,000 people die every year from smoking? That’s a cost how? These 80,000 are going to die of something, regardless of whether they smoke or not. Pushing their deaths 5-10 years into the future, they will still die, and in the meantime perhaps be an added cost to the British pension ponzi scheme.


16 posted on 08/29/2024 9:01:49 PM PDT by oldplayer
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To: MinorityRepublican

You brits voted for this crap. Sadly, you won’t be able to vote your way out.


17 posted on 08/29/2024 9:07:23 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: No name given

They are hypocrites, but they want to have it better than everybody else. Leftism is about creating classes of privilege by removing quality and enjoyment of life from the lower classes.

Pick an issue that the left wants you to stop and you’ll find that they want you to stop but they want to continue to enjoy.

I think it’s because we’ve gone as advanced as we can be, for the moment, as a species. So, for them to have the most privileges they have to convince us to lose ours. If some day, we invent new stuff, then they would allow a better life. Just not as good as theirs.


18 posted on 08/29/2024 9:10:42 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Genghis Khan did not have the most descendants. His father had more. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

There’s a reason the colonists and the United Kingdom went their separate ways. All the freedoms we have (in theory at least) are guaranteed by our constitution. All the freedoms the British have are subject to the discretion of the government.


19 posted on 08/29/2024 9:27:35 PM PDT by mbrfl
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To: Jonty30
"Smoking is a moral issue, in the mind of the liberal."

Maybe it is today, but you said Victorians, and the same issues with people smoking that Keir Starmer has today were not present in the British Victorian Era.

20 posted on 08/29/2024 9:37:47 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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