In 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?