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Smoke bans call policy into question

Smoke bans call policy into question

no smokingIn Tasmania, puffers are duffers, councils say…as Hobart, Launceston and Burnie lead the way to ban smoking in public, under threat of a $120 fine. But do such paternalistic policies do more harm than good? The Australian Parliament has just issued a thought-provoking research paper.

For more information on smoking in Tasmania

For the Parliamentary Library’s Research Paper No 8, 2010-1q: Paternalism in social policy – when is it justifiable?

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