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Originally Posted by Reece
No but it is a persons right to smoke if they want!!  |
But what about the non-smokers right to not smell the stinky stuff? At present when I walk out of one particular supermarket I'd have to walk through about a dozen peoples' fug! Same for shopping malls and pubs. And as for other buildings, like my workplace, or a restaurant - people returning after smoking reek, as nice-a-person as they may be it just isn't nice.
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Originally Posted by Reece
Not that alone but imagine if a smoker comes here and their smokes are confiscated, lets face it almost half the western world would be smokers and if they couldn't smoke or bring there own they are not likely to come, if I were a smoker I wouldn't go to a country that banned them! |
If people pre-flight are aware that they will be confiscated they wouldn't take them, but buy them on arrival - taxes to Oz, nice move by your government really.
Roughly 20% of the world's population are smokers (1.3bn), mostly males, and Russia and China make up the largest bulk of that. Can't be bothered to do the maths for western-only.
They aren't banned, only the branding is banned.
For once, I'm with Sky'
