Great Yarmouth Borough Council has offered a course to people fined for breaching the smoking ban. If they attend, they are let off half the fine.
I wonder who designed the course, who it was designed for (not only for people who breach the ban, surely? I thought everyone loved the ban!), how long it goes on and how much nonsense is peddled in it. It's almost bound to say that there is no safe level of secondary smoke and that ventilation never works. (Although it seems that ASH is retreating from this impossible position in the context of outdoor smoking bans.)
Nice to know that someone can make money out of the ban being breached, and all in the name of 're-education' too. When I was at school people used to think that kind of education was a sinister form of brainwashing.
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Worth considering getting a fine just so you can have a good argument with a smokophobe! :)
This is no surprise to me and is "the next logical step" after the ban. I have been waiting for the first course that dismisses or reduces fines for smokers caught dropping a cig end. Perhaps this course will be extended to them as well.
This is the first step towards forcing smokers to quit by using the threat of law - or criminalisation phase one.
'When I was at school people used to think that kind of education was a sinister form of brainwashing.'
It still is brainwashing but it's covered in a nicely fitting sanctimonious, self-righteous cloak which deludes people into thinking its for their own good.
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