The future of Anti-Smoking?

[Schadenfroh]

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE70A2HP20110111

Bhutan police can raid homes of smokers in a search for contraband tobacco and are training a special tobacco sniffer dog in a crackdown to honor a promise to become the world's first smoke-free nation.

Seems a bit extreme, I jokingly said one time that tobacco will be prohibited when pot is legalized.

It is not illegal there to smoke in one's home, just have caps on how much you are allowed to have.

Smoking in private is not illegal in the Himalayan kingdom, but as the sale of cigarettes is banned, smokers are restricted to 200 cigarettes or 150 grams of other tobacco products a month that can be legally imported. And they must provide a customs receipt when challenged by police.

smoking is considered bad for one's karma

We beg to differ here in the US, I have heard that smoking the other grass does quite well for Karma...

Would be interesting to see the results of such drastic measures if applied to a nation with a culture similar to America. Although, I do not wish to see such authoritarian measures here.

 

[bamacre]

The results are fairly predictable, there will be less cigarettes consumed in Bhutan. The question is, do the ends justify the means? IMO, certainly not.

 

[jhu]

Well, good for them. More cigarettes for the Chinese then.

 

[dawp]

It's their choice. ya don't have to live there.

 

[Dr. Zaus]

Is it there choice to live there?

I mean, with 600k people and another nation's currency:
They aren't even a real country anyway.

 

[Atreus21]

The results are fairly predictable, there will be less cigarettes consumed in Bhutan. The question is, do the ends justify the means? IMO, certainly not.

They certainly are predictable. Prohibition worked very well.

 

[Dr. Zaus]

They certainly are predictable. Prohibition worked very well.

It depend on what you consider "work"ing. Prohibition reduces use but it leads to other societal problems.

 

[nick1985]

It's their choice. ya don't have to live there.

I fully expected this answer out of you.

 

[IGBT]

pre employment drug testing can include tobacco. Many employers are going smoke free in the work places..all encouraged by discounts to employers by insurance industry.

 

[Schadenfroh]

pre employment drug testing can include tobacco. Many employers are going smoke free in the work places..all encouraged by discounts to employers by insurance industry.

Have to love it when greed encourages better health habits...