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paying pregnant smokers - lew600fazer - 28-01-15
Well heard it all now, we are in some parts of the country, deprived areas, paying Pregnant women with vouchers to stop smoking.WTF.
I assume a deprived area means there is not a lot of money about? seems to be enough for these poor folk to buy ciggies though.
I am all in favour of encouraging folk to give up smoking and giving them support.
But to actually give a financial incentitive no fecking way. Pregnant or otherwise. How often have women been told not to smoke or drink while pregnant ??To me a mother who continues to smoke or drink while pregnant regardless of what her station in life is obviously does not give a feck about her unborn child.
Re: paying prenant smokers - Kosmic Kartman - 28-01-15
Just shows what a fucked up country we live in.
Re: paying prenant smokers - Arfa - 28-01-15
It's the thing todo down here in Essex:
' dunna wan giv up fags, why shud I? get a nice small babe ya see, easier to push it owt, init!'
Re: paying prenant smokers - bri h - 28-01-15
Its rediculous to bribe them.Still bloke on the telly says it cost 400 quid to bribe them and 800 quid to sort them out if they dont.
Re: paying prenant smokers - Fazafou - 28-01-15
They should just chemically adjust ciggies to cause permanent sterility so these people aren't adding to the population.
Re: paying prenant smokers - HarryHornby - 28-01-15
It seems soooo stupid. As has already been said, it's a deprived area, how the foc do they afford fags at £10 a pop?
Also, how do they police it?? It would be like the stoning scene in Monty Python...... "Are there any smokers here?" " no, no, no, no cough cough cough". Seriously though, they would ask "have you given up the fags?" "yes" would be the reply.... gets vouchers, walks out of sight and sparks up.... job done!
Re: paying prenant smokers - Frosties - 28-01-15
(28-01-15, 01:56 PM)HarryHornby link Wrote: It seems soooo stupid. As has already been said, it's a deprived area, how the foc do they afford fags at £10 a pop?
Also, how do they police it?? It would be like the stoning scene in Monty Python...... "Are there any smokers here?" " no, no, no, no cough cough cough". Seriously though, they would ask "have you given up the fags?" "yes" would be the reply.... gets vouchers, walks out of sight and sparks up.... job done!
Then you've got the genuine non smokers claiming to be smokers so they can get the vouchers and flog them on. WTF...........
Re: paying prenant smokers - esetest - 28-01-15
Will the payments be backdated , I gave up smoking 13 years ago .
Re: paying prenant smokers - maddog04 - 28-01-15
easy cash.....I'm starting :evil
Re: paying prenant smokers - adeejaysdelight - 28-01-15
The problem in these "deprived" areas is fundamentally a social and educational one and a typical government answer is to throw money at it and hope it goes away. Already the nation has found a way to make a scam of it and it was only made public this morning.
What a piece of nonsense
Re: paying prenant smokers - taylor - 28-01-15
a foreign bloke was on a site I was on, in talking I was saying I couldn't afford to send my daughter away to uni, to expensive, I have worked all my life , he then said it is all paid for by the state for his daughter as they live in a deprived area. :'(
Re: paying prenant smokers - Frosties - 28-01-15
(28-01-15, 06:39 PM)taylor link Wrote: a foreign bloke was on a site I was on, in talking I was saying I couldn't afford to send my daughter away to uni, to expensive, I have worked all my life , he then said it is all paid for by the state for his daughter as they live in a deprived area. :'(
Maybe that's the answer to retiring wealthy. Sell my house, buy the same size house for a 1/4 of the price in a deprived area. Send the kids to Uni foc, then sell up and buy my retirement home in Cornwall.
Re: paying prenant smokers - taylor - 28-01-15
good idea that one
Re: paying prenant smokers - chris.biker - 28-01-15
(28-01-15, 02:12 PM)esetest link Wrote: Will the payments be backdated , I gave up smoking 13 years ago .
Well congratulations, are you hoping for a boy or a girl?
:lol
Re: paying prenant smokers - lew600fazer - 28-01-15
No one worse than an x smoker. When my wife was expecting our son she asked me to stop smoking or at least to smoke outside. I have not smoked in 29 years. It has had side effects though, I'm a fecking blimp. I used to be 13 stone in those days. :lol :lol
Re: paying pregnant smokers - Grahamm - 29-01-15
(28-01-15, 09:45 AM)lew600fazer link Wrote: Well heard it all now, we are in some parts of the country, deprived areas, paying Pregnant women with vouchers to stop smoking.WTF.
I assume a deprived area means there is not a lot of money about? seems to be enough for these poor folk to buy ciggies though.
One of the effects of nicotine is to suppress appetite, so smoking a cigarette helps people skip a meal that they can't afford to pay for.
Giving them vouchers they can use for food is probably better for them and for the baby, or we can just go all Daily Mail on them...
Re: paying pregnant smokers - mtread - 29-01-15
:agree if it has been proven to work, why not? At the end of the day, it's the innocent child that suffers.
Re: paying prenant smokers - midden - 29-01-15
(28-01-15, 09:31 PM)chris.biker link Wrote: [quote author=esetest link=topic=15827.msg181606#msg181606 date=1422450752]
Will the payments be backdated , I gave up smoking 13 years ago .
Well congratulations, are you hoping for a boy or a girl?
:lol
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well there's reason against wanting to live in a depraved area. 12 yrs 3 mths over due and the local NHS still hasn't funded birth induction on esetest
Re: paying pregnant smokers - DILLIGAFF - 29-01-15
Seems to me that smokers are a selfish bunch, concerned only with THEIR choices. To me its like feeding your baby uncooked chicken or letting them play in Chernobyl.
Oh and BTW to whoever thought it OK to throw their empty fag packet onto my drive this week.......................... may the poisons from a 1000 counterfeit smuggled fags infest your lungs :evil
Re: paying pregnant smokers - Rexr - 29-01-15
(28-01-15, 09:45 AM)lew600fazer link Wrote: Well heard it all now, we are in some parts of the country, deprived areas, paying Pregnant women with vouchers to stop smoking.WTF.
I assume a deprived area means there is not a lot of money about? seems to be enough for these poor folk to buy ciggies though.
I am all in favour of encouraging folk to give up smoking and giving them support.
But to actually give a financial incentitive no fecking way. Pregnant or otherwise. How often have women been told not to smoke or drink while pregnant ??To me a mother who continues to smoke or drink while pregnant regardless of what her station in life is obviously does not give a feck about her unborn child.
Totally agreed with everything there......