Posted on 03/25/2014 6:05:47 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The British Medical Association (BMA), the trade union representing all National Health Service (NHS) doctors, has said that the sale of cigarettes should be banned "to anyone born after the year 2000".
In a new policy position of the organisation which claims to lobby Parliament in its members' interest, the BMA has stated that "humanity has never developed anything more deadly than the cigarette".
Dr Crocker-Buqué, a "London research assistant in academic public health" reportedly told last week's BMA annual public health medicine conference that eight in 10 smokers started in their teenage years and that someone who started smoking at 15 was more than three times more likely to die from smoking-related cancer than someone who started in their 20s.
But the BMA's proposals have come under fire from campaigners who argue that smoking should be a choice. The Freedom Organisation for the Right to Enjoy Smoking (FOREST) has said that the people get "a great dea of enjoyment" from smoking, and that it is "indisputable" that many smokers live "long and healthy lifestyles".
But the BMA's blunt ban was accompanied by further lobbying efforts at local level. The conference called on the BMA to mount a campaign for all local authority pension funds not to include investments relating to tobacco companies, which effectively amounts to a boycott and divestment campaign against British businesses.
Simon Clark of FOREST told Breitbart London: "The health risks of smoking are widely recognised. Likewise drinking too much or eating fatty foods and dairy products, but a lot of people get a great deal of enjoyment from smoking, eating and drinking and life would be boring if it was entirely risk free.
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This coming from the country that gave us Rumpole of the Bailey. He was most miserable when deprived of rich food, spirits, or tobacco.
Those who wish to control the populace experimented with smokers.
It took awhile because we were basically free. Nothing will stop them now..
You like that candy? like those fries? A little overweight? A little stressed? They are coming for you next. And it won’t take as long this time.
Ban golfing for government employees while they are on the job...
"After all, it is we who are commanding."
Banning smoking . . . . except for pot. I imagine there could be government action banning 20 cigarette magazines. Who needs 20 cigarettes? Why not mandate a 5 cigarette magazine, like the way candy cigarettes were packaged?
The more prohibitions we have the more leos we need. And more swat teams. Great stuff
Why not, they are already working on banning breathing for anyone born before 1940.
How many of these doctors say ban tobacco, but marijuana is OK?
Where are they going to find more doctors when all of the smoking teen Yobs pound them to a bloody pulp?
But legalize marijuana?
We have our very own anti smoking nazi, right here at F.R.
"When everyone is responsible, no one is responsible."
It wasn't humanity; it was Native Americans.
Ban smoking but legalize pot. What a country.
That was the intended strategy all along; since Meathead invented the scam in California.
Regardless of what traditional disease kills people, if one has ever smoked, statistically the officially recorded cause of death is "smoking." Even violent traffic deaths, murders, suicide, gang killings...
Exactly and I have told people that for years.
Gang does a driveby and kills a member of a rival gang? Did the rival gang member smoke? Yes? Ok chalk up another “Smoking related death”
Its almost comical now.
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