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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk
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Originally Posted by Von Tonner
SA has just introduced legislation which raises the age from 16 to 18 years in buying tobacco products. This got me wondering what it was in other countries.
They have also banned tobacco companies from promoting or sponsoring any event unless such sponsorship is done anonymously.
No tobacco products can be sold in health or educational facilities.
We already have legislation which bans smoking in public places such as theaters, shopping malls etc. Restaurants have to have smoking areas.
Plus there has to be warnings on all tobacco products that it is detrimental to your health together with further new regulations compelling manufacturers to display ghastly images of people suffering from smoking-related diseases to create public awareness on the dangers of smoking.
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All of this has happened in the US in the past 15 years or so. I'm surprised this had taken so long in South Africa. I guess countries see differently on certain things. |
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Pull the other one, I don't know if you realise but America is a federal state - i.e. All and any state can and does pass legislation on tobacco sales and use outside of federal legislation, to say as you do that "all this has happened in the US in the past 15 years or so", well I guess no one told Alabama or any other state with similar laws. Federal government does not legislate on a law governing tobacco sales and use which can and does overide state legislation - so to say that "all this happened in the US 15 years ago" is incorrect. What SA has done, is pass legislation which is applicable to all it states( we call them provinces) which is a far cry from what the US has done.
06-27-08, 03:00 PM
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