Public Health Proposal Considers Mandatory ‘Smokers License’

[Vel]

Yet liberals worry that Republicans want to control their bodies?
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Public Health Proposal Considers Mandatory ‘Smokers License’
November 15, 2012 6:07 AM

WASHINGTON (CBS DC) – A public health proposal suggests that tobacco smokers should be required to apply and pay for a “smoker’s license” in order to continue buying cigarettes.

In this week’s PLOS Medicine medical journal, two leading tobacco control advocates debate the merits of the smoker’s license. Simon Chapman, a professor at the University of Sydney, proposes that users would have to apply and pay for a mandatory license in the form of a smartcard that would be shown when buying cigarettes.

Dr. Chapman wrote that it could discourage young people from picking up the habit.

In a controversial move, the smartcard would allow the government to limit how many cigarettes a smoker could buy. Professor Chapman suggests 50 per day averaged over two weeks to accommodate heavy smokers. The anti-smoking activist told the Daily Mail that the sale of tobacco is currently subject to trivial controls compared to other dangerous products that threaten both public and personal safety.

Public Health Proposal Considers Mandatory ‘Smokers License’ « CBS DC

 

[WillowTree]

Fuckin A

 

[Moonglow]

I think all people should have fuckers license, limits how many fucks you get in a lifetime and limits children being born without a permit.
But you can grow your own tobacco and smoke all you like.

 

[AmyNation]

That, is stupid.