Does the Goverment really concern about (non-) smokers?

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What do you think about how the Goverment concern about smokers and not smokers? You agree in all the ways what they think or what they do against, or for smokers, in the country you live. I live in the Netherlands and there they are...i think... it's my opinion.... they are going wild the latest years. I'm a smoker, i smoke not much 2 till 5 shag on one day. I don't know if you understand the word shag but this is self rolling sigarettes. A couple of years ago they are saying smoking is bad and we want that there more people stop and less people from under 16 or 18 starts to smoke. Ok allright they decide to raise the price with 20 cent, a half year later they raised again with a cent or 20. After that they say, ok we raised the price and there are less people who begins smoking and a couple of people decide to quite smoking because the price raise. Again a half or a year later they came with it that it so bad was for the person who smokes but also for the person who doesn't smoke and is still in the same area. They decide to close all the smoking area in trains, in trains we can choose about first end second class and then we can choose about separately smoke and non- smoking area, but now we must site in a non- smoking area and when we smoke in non- smoking area we get a ticket minimum €40,- In work area i can understand that there may not be smoking, but company's have a place where you allow to smoke in the building. Comming back on the Goverment, i think the Goverment is happy about that there are people smoking, because they earn alot of money by tax on smokers. When they raise the price, some people stop, but the most people stay smoking and the goverment earns more money from smokers than before the raise. Allmost all the company's in the Netherlands have smoke- free buildings with a smoking area in it or they have make a room outside. And this all decide by a couple of men and woman who doesn't go by train or is a non- smoker. A big percentage smokes in the Netherlands but the Goverment doesn't care about it they place this people, the smoking person, in a corner where he/she is gonna think of they are bad people because they smoke a cigarette. A person who smokes is not more or less than someone who doesn't smoke and vice versa. What do you think about it, is it the same in other countries or is it better or worse what is your opinion??