Chinese urged to report smokers[Report their Family members]

BBC ^ | 21 Feb 2008 | BBC

[BGHater]

China has an estimated 350 million smokers Health officials in the Chinese city of Chongqing are urging people to report their family members to the authorities if they violate a smoking ban. The initiative is part of a campaign in two districts of the city to tackle the effects of passive smoking. Those who are accused of smoking will have their names posted on a warning list on community notice boards. As well as the campaign within families, a workplace smoking ban is also being tried in public buildings. A hospital boss whose organisation is taking part in the trial said he would cut the bonuses of any team where members were found to have smoked. Cigarettes are hugely popular in China, which is estimated to have a total of 350 million smokers. The World Health Organization has estimated that 3,000 people die in China each day from the effects of smoking.

[Budge]

Yes, yes, let's be more like the Utopian communists! Then we'll all be free and equal!

Oh wait, isn't that what the democRats are doing already?

[GOP_Lady]

Insane and demented. How people could even think like this is beyond me. It’s LIBERAL FACISM at it’s finest.

[BJungNan]

China, Ohio, what’s the difference?

There are heaps of differences but for starters, capitalism is alive and well in China for both large and small entrepreneurs. China welcomes business while Ohio is a considerably less business friendly government. Any Ohio city would drool over the prospects of just one new factory while Chinese cities are seen hundreds of new factories opening in a single year.

On where someone can smoke or where a business is allowed to let its customer's smoke, then China now seems to be catching up to the U.S. in an erosion of those personal freedoms.

[jjm2111]

LOL!

[BJungNan]

He is not insane, he is right. I agree with him. The bans on cigarettes mirror the behavioral changes that were the precursors of larger social movements that went too far.

First tell someone they can not smoke, next tell them what kinds of cars they can drive, then burn down car dealerships that sell Hummers. A movement is started against obesity and fast food. Following on those breaches of personal liberty, society begins to act like a religious zealot in the control of many other personal freedoms, irrationally as is the case of those that want to ban cigarettes.

The only point of disagreement I have with swarthyguy is that I view China has having more personal freedoms (not political freedoms) on a day to day basis than does the U.S.

[bamahead]

Those who are accused of smoking will have their names posted on a warning list on community notice boards be euthanized inhumanely and have their organs and useful proteins harvested.

Fixed...

[Eric Blair 2084]

True, scary and sad.

[GOP_Lady]

O-H-I-O S-U-C-K-S !!!

[GOP_Lady]

Hey, ho, way to go, Ohio.

[GOP_Lady]

Here’s a link to some Ohio whiners:

http://www.smokechoke.com

[gondramB]

>>And here we thought China was so much different than the U.S....<<

This really isn’t that different than newspapers publishing the names of men for soliciting prostitutes - its just a different sphere of life they are trying to control through shame.

[DoughtyOne]

I don’t approve of that either.

I don’t partake, but it seems strange to try to put and end to something that has been around since time began.

Regulate it, and get on with more important business.

[Eric Blair 2084]

Just put everyone in jail. We’re all “guilty” of something.

In reality none of us are really free. We are all just on “supervised probation” by the Gubmint.

[GOP_Lady]

That’s exactly how I feel, Eric. The building where I work has been hit with steep fines. Some people are complaining that they can smell smoke, because some people are too close to the doors. Now, these people got 100% (ALL) of what they wanted, and they’re still not happy and cause problems just out of sheer hate. When will this madness end?

[swarthyguy]

You’re insane instead.

Then I guess you wouldn't be an enthusiastic recruit for my program Stone a Smoker on Sunday, or Stoning Smoker Sundays, say after church, putting one in a stockade, and since we don't want them dead, rather paying taxes on a product they can't use anywhere, have pebbles instead of stones and have say, children under ten do the stoning, hurting but not fatally, the stockaded smoker.

A valuable lesson for all.

And another step in uniting the civilizations in Sharia. For example, the US Embassy could host a stoning smoker event on Friday evenings so as to be sensitive and culturally attuned to the host country.

After all, unlike harcore Sharians, we may not necessarily want to kill smokers, but ostracization and public humiliation of smokers is something even hard core jihadis could live with. After all, they have bigger things to worry about.

And before you go off on Sharia, couldn't be that bad if the Archbishop of Canterbury is kosher with it.

Save the World, Stone a Smoker

[swarthyguy]

>China has having more personal freedoms

Haven’t been there, but I would tend to agree with you based on other countries, mainly developing, where, unlike in the West, the degree of social, societal and behavioral control, all mandated and enforced diligently is far less quantitatively and qualitatively. The Chinese control political behavior, and we control individual behavior, albeit in the name of a greater good, and with probably as much zeal these days.

In China, Yahoo may snitch on you, but you can probably have a smoke in an internet cafe.

I think the precedent in the US has been set now, witness remote controlled thermostats being proposed in CA.

National Lights Out Policy, anyone.

[swarthyguy]

>>Some people are complaining that they can smell smoke,

Witness the new standard, not breathing, but now , even the smell (aroma?:>>) is considered a valid target, and even the sight (GASP!!!) is something that may adversely affect not only young children, but adults! YIKES!!!!

Goes back to my original theory. If only we smokers hadn’t destroyed the WTC and hit the Pentagon.......

[gathersnomoss]

Hey Governor Kaine....imagine the tax revenue. Better than sex, ain’t it?

[swarthyguy]

>>Dark, swarthy has a sicker sense of humor than me. Don’t take him so seriously.

What does it take to get a swarthy taken seriously around here, anyway?

I’m swarthy and I’m proud!

[BJungNan]

You have put it better than I did. FReepRegards!