Whatever your view about tobacco and smoking, anyone with an ounce of perception can see that if these measures go through then it clears the way for restrictions on all sorts of legal products that the authorities don't like.
That is why it is imperative that you add your name to the petition. If you don't, and this goes through unchallenged, then it's time to take bets on what will be next.
For my money it will chocolate and sweets in plain packaging - cakes which are not allowed to look pretty, burgers sold on the black market on street corners, and fizzy drinks being hidden under the counter.
If they manage to eradicate tobacco use, and ultimately move to the next stage of criminalising law abiding smokers, don't think it won't be you next and whatever it is you like.
These proposals are preposterous. Tobacco is legal. There is no evidence that these sort of restrictions make smoking less attractive or accessible to youths.
I hate perfume. I hate the smell of it and that it makes me sneeze. I can't bear sitting near anyone wearing it in a restaurant as it spoils the taste of my food. The packaging is pretentious, the contents poisonous when inhaled, but I would not back any moves to restrict it's point of sale. Nor would I expect those who have a favourite brand to have to guess what they're buying because someone else like me hates it and starts making laws to eradicate it.
Look - we know what risks we take when we smoke. Kids are far more knowledgeable than we were about the dangers of active smoking. It's almost the first thing they learn these days. It's probably why the numbers of people taking up smoking are markedly lower than they were when I started.
When we reach the age where we can legally smoke it should be our choice based on informed risks, and not because Nanny Britain has sent us to the Bully to be punished because we won't take her good advice.
SHS, which I do not accept is any kind of major risk, can be avoided with choice so banning the consumption of a legal product in public is nothing to do with health and everything to do with Govt backing of denormalisation of a minority social and lifestyle group.
Further restrictions are just the next step towards making a legal product illegal.
I've always supported education on tobacco risks but I am against propaganda.
These proposed restrictions are simply propaganda. They will achieve no aim but further denormalisation of law abiding and mostly older lifelong smokers who face criminalisation if they do not comply with this new health world order.
Whatever it is that you like, do you seriously want to be next? Sign the petition and make sure you won't be.