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Post by Hunny on Aug 15, 2012 14:12:17 GMT
Australia cigarette plain packaging law upheld by courtAustralia's highest court has upheld a new government law on mandatory packaging for cigarettes that removes brand colors and logos from packaging. The law requires cigarettes to be sold in olive green packets, with graphic images warning of the consequences of smoking. Australian cigarette packets may soon look like this READ MORE...
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Post by chips on Aug 15, 2012 23:28:20 GMT
This is not over by a long shot.
The tobacco industry is taking the government back to court for impinging on their copyright and this could cost them millions in compensation.
Even though we have the most graphic illustrations and warnings it has not stopped people smoking and neither has the 125% tax on tobacco.
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Post by Hunny on Aug 25, 2012 18:32:55 GMT
U.S. Court Blocks Graphic Images on Cigarette Packs...Sometimes I just don't get why there is anyone under 30 smoking anymore. Why would a kid start? (How can they afford to! It's eight dollars a pack!) ...As drugs go this is the one you could pick that gives no high, providing only the nagging lethal addiction to it's yuck and its cost and its health certainties. Why would a kid stand there and decide, "Well, I can pay for dates, video games, music albums, all the things a kid needs money for OR I can volunteer for developing an eighty dollar a week nagging addiction, so I can smell like sh*t, cough and never be able to afford anything." ? Why would they make that conclusion?? ..Or could it actually be that they don't know cigarettes are bad? -that they're lethal, seven times more addictive than heroin, and entirely unrewarding? Who is FAILING to get these things across to them? I JUST don't get it. We DO need graphic warnings on the labels. Moreover, if they can make pot illegal, they can ban cigarettes too. That'd be a good idea.
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