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Q: How is the smoking ban going?
Having just read the article on the new legislation in Beijing, I notice it has been in force since June last year. Have any of you in Beijing noticed it working? I'm not in the city, I'm in a city where its normal for a doctor to tab it large while giving you an eye test.
I am back from a few days in HK, and I can definitley say the smoking ban is going better in China than it is there. That is: it is ignored here.
I might be a socialist, but I also have libertarian streaks. Government should have no say about what I inhale. Not until they decommission all coal fired power stations and ban all petrol vehicles from the roads.
When my PM2.5 app shows green for a year, then they can tell me to stop smoking 
Shining_brow:
You need a government to tell you to respect the rights and health of other people?? Your right to smoke does not exceed my right to not have to breathe clean air.
Though, yes, I do agree - there is also a need to fix the other problems. But it's a red herring to suggest that needs to be done first. There's no logical reason why both can't be implemented at the same time. Nor that one that can be fixed quickly and easily be done before another that is much more difficult to implement quickly.
I am back from a few days in HK, and I can definitley say the smoking ban is going better in China than it is there. That is: it is ignored here.
I might be a socialist, but I also have libertarian streaks. Government should have no say about what I inhale. Not until they decommission all coal fired power stations and ban all petrol vehicles from the roads.
When my PM2.5 app shows green for a year, then they can tell me to stop smoking
Shining_brow:
You need a government to tell you to respect the rights and health of other people?? Your right to smoke does not exceed my right to not have to breathe clean air.
Though, yes, I do agree - there is also a need to fix the other problems. But it's a red herring to suggest that needs to be done first. There's no logical reason why both can't be implemented at the same time. Nor that one that can be fixed quickly and easily be done before another that is much more difficult to implement quickly.
