Australia is the first country to ban branding on cigarette packets

[Gerald]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-15673797

Note: 10 November 2011 Last updated at 16:15 GMT

[Reece]

What else do you expect from Australia, wont be long and it will be against the law to smoke here! That will kill tourism for sure! Who said we were a democracy, the country is run by a bunch of dictators, 100%

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by Reece

What else do you expect from Australia, wont be long and it will be against the law to smoke here! That will kill tourism for sure! Who said we were a democracy, the country is run by a bunch of dictators, 100%

For ya Reece,

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Reece

What else do you expect from Australia, wont be long and it will be against the law to smoke here! That will kill tourism for sure! Who said we were a democracy, the country is run by a bunch of dictators, 100%

Are you a smoker mate?

[Oberon]

The list of things that are verboten in the Holy Australian Empire seems to be getting longer and longer...

[Jimbuna]

At this rate they'll soon be catching up with us Brit folk

[Herr-Berbunch]

Originally Posted by Reece

That will kill tourism for sure!

Why? Because that's the reason people visit Oz?

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch

Why? Because that's the reason people visit Oz?

Probably....I've heard it's full of fags

[Herr-Berbunch]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Probably....I've heard it's full of fags

Okay, now Oz is crossed off my 'places to visit' list.

[Sailor Steve]

This is ridiculous. I don't even smoke, and I think this is idiocy at its finest. The whole point of having a business to make money, and if no one is allowed to put their own name on their product, what's the point?

As for banning cigarettes altogether, they will find out what we learned eighty years ago - that prohibition doesn't work, and only serves to promote black markets and criminal organizations. Of course we didn't learn our lesson either, and will probably follow our downunder cousins along the same road.

[STEED]

VENDOR!

DID YOU HAVE TO PUT A MASSIVE PICTURE UP OF THAT WELSH BITCH?




Good job she naffed off down under.


I can see someone making a killing selling plain metal cigaret cases.



Guilt factor sorted.

[Jimbuna]

I can see many now....awaiting their flight back down under.

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by STEED

VENDOR!

DID YOU HAVE TO PUT A MASSIVE PICTURE UP OF THAT WELSH BITCH?




Good job she naffed off down under.


I can see someone making a killing selling plain metal cigaret cases.



Guilt factor sorted.

Nuff,

[Skybird]

http://www.ajpmonline.org/webfiles/i...53-stamped.pdf

Background:
More states and localities are passing restrictions on smoking in public places and workplaces.

Purpose:
To determine what, if any, association exists between enactment of strong laws making public places or workplaces smokefree on adoption of voluntary smokefree-home policies, particularly whether such laws are associated with increased smoking at home.

Methods:
Logistic regressions were used to estimate the OR of a person living with a 100% smokefree-home rule as a function of individual characteristics, household composition, and whether or not the residential region is covered by clean indoor air laws. The data came from successive waves of the Tobacco Use Supplement to Current Population Survey (TUS-CPS) for the years 1992-2007, and the American Nonsmokers' Rights Foundation database of state and local government clean indoor air laws. Analysis was conducted in 2010 and 2011.

Results:

Living in a county fully covered by a 100% clean indoor air law in workplaces or restaurants or bars is associated with an increased likelihood of having a voluntary 100% smokefree-home rule both for people living with smokers (OR7.76, 95% CI5.27, 11.43) and not living with smokers (OR 4.12, 95% CI3.28, 5.16).

Conclusions:
Strong clean indoor air laws are associated with large increases in voluntary smokefree-home policies both in the homes with and without smokers. These results support the

hypothesis of norm spreading of clean indoor air laws.

(Am J Prev Med 2011;xx(x)xx) © 2011 American Journal of Preventive Medicine)

[TarJak]