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I saw someone get a ticket for dropping a butt outside the entrance to Shopping City yesterday, so probably yes.
I find this quite disproportionate. Rubbish from overfilled commercial skips blows around behind shopping city all the time. Fly-tipping hardly risks anything. Casual dumping of furniture by the roadside is a constant feature and yet all that happens is someone merely chucking a fag end of the street gets fined. Its a case of picking on the easy target.
I agree Philip.
It used to be called fascism, but now that has become so main stream in the U.K. you get people pushing the boundaries even further. It's so Orwellian and yet so many sensible people here still support it. Of course, the answer would be to stop victimising smokers, give people smoking areas by providing areas and rooms* in shopping centres and high streets. But no, the nanny state has pushed smokers out on to the streets with their bans inside and now is capitalising on it.
*I have never been a smoker in my life. But I stand by the freedom for people to smoke if they wish.
Look, it's not illegal.. Subsidise? Actually it's the other way around. You are obviously quite happy for smokers to continue to subside the government with their taxes. If it were so bad, then it should be banned completely.
As for emotives like filthy.. I find plenty of things filthy, but I think people should be free to do what they want, as long as it is legal. Which smoking is.
I get pretty tired of generalisations like 'the rest of us' and 'we' - that sounds very much like victimisation to me and remind me very much of what was bandied around in dictatorships..
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