I have not even mentioned the lost productivity of smokers in the work place. That employer paid rotating strike being continuously held outside work places all over Australia. Where the nicotine addicted gather in work hours to discuss the days events and feed their habit. Make them clock off and clock on. make them pick up their butts as an extra duty on weekends, a smokers cleaning roster!
The extra days smokers require off work each year to recover from minor illness exacerbated by their smoking addiction. Make smokers pay I call for a 100% minimum increase in tax on tobacco products to fund in a small way the impact smoking is having on our society.

Paul 1405,

You're being far too soft on these societal menaces.
Nope, I suggest you rally the anti-smoking forces of the nation and petition government for internment camps - with perhaps an identifying tattoo just in case anyone escapes.(You can employ regular boozers for camp guards and have MacDonalds do the catering). It'll be like a small nation state - hoorah!

Happy International Womens day Lady's.
Hope it focuses on changes needed and improved life for some.
It will not,if we get defensive, Gday Poirot are you a smoker?
I can find reason, if I look,to say yes or no on any subject.
To defend any thing or oppose it.
We,humanity, squabble about every thing.
Yet one day must confront this.
A third way, always exists.
Our tower of babble world, defeats good out comes, stops them dead, because we want our out come.
Yet most see smoking as a health risk, at the very least,most see promoting the habit in poor country's as bad.
Can any one give me a reason why humanity should not act the third way.
In the interests of the many not the few?

Yo, Belly.....my target is purely at Paul 1405's particularly sanctimonious attitude (as in the above "make them do this - make them do that")

I call it the "Protestant Protest Ethic" and it's always guaranteed to get my gander up.

Which of course should be "dander" (coz my gander won't get up for anything : )

Poirot, I glad you have come on board. Don't like the term interment camp. Sounds to much like holiday camp, where free pipes and cigars are being liberally handed out to smoking refugees by Julia Gillard at tax payers expense. I would rather refer to them as smoking gulags, where smokers are sent for re-education. After a 16 hour day of rock breaking and salt mining, the ex-smokers, far too exhausted to want a smoke, would then be subjected to exposure from the smoke of burning tractor tyres for 4 hours, followed by 4 hours of listing to Paul Hogan spruiking "Anyhow DON"T have a Windfield" over and over again at 100 decibels. Do you thing that is too harsh? Should we cut that Hogan spruik back to 90 decibels and maybe add an extra dry biscuit at meal times, but then again we don't want to be seen a bleeding heart liberals, do we? Can I be camp commandant? Or am I too much of a softy?