Alcohol, accidents, effects on family and social life, lives getting spoiled

[Danger]

Give it some time - cigarette smoking is wayyyy down.

Not here. Almost every time that I see a kid smoking, I try to talk him/her out of it by pointing out that I am dying because of it. Just as with me at that age, they invariably don't believe me. It's a classic case of "do as I say, not as I do", and it never works.

 

[JaredJames]

No kid thinks "that's going to happen to me". They think the complete opposite.

Talking them out of it, heck even scaring them with horrific photos just doesn't work.

I don't believe there's a way to stop people smoking/drinking/taking drugs. The government realize that education and shock/awe attacks just ain't having enough effect and so now they're going as far to make cigarettes only come in brown packets with the makers name and a warning on. Plus, they're stopping them being put on display. (This is in the UK)

They're only doing all of this because they don't want to / can't outright ban them.

They are now taking steps to make smoking as unappealing and what I consider to be as difficult as possible.

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

Can you imagine this? My neighbor got drunk last night and woke up the neighborhood trying to open front door. And in the land of the free and the home of the brave, the best solution they could find was to ban me from drinking. I expect that when they take away your right to free speech it will be because someone abused it.

 

[Danger]

Bob, I was mistaken. It's been so long that I had forgotten something. That $1,000 was what my total driving expenses would have been each month, rather than the cost for just the interlock itself. There was still the $1,500 installation fee, though. Sorry about the confusion.