Cigarette packaging move welcomed (From York Press)
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Cigarette packaging move welcomed
8:31am Wednesday 13th March 2013 in News
NEW laws which will see standardised packaging for all cigarette brands have been welcomed by City of York Council.
Tracey Simpson-Laing, the council’s cabinet member for health, said: “City of York Council supports the move towards standardised packaging because the packets are less attractive to children and young people, less misleading about the health risks of smoking and make health warnings more graphic, obvious and effective.”
Smoking is estimated to cause more than 1,300 deaths every year in York and North Yorkshire.
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Garrowby Turnoff
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9:43am Wed 13 Mar 13
Smoking is estimated to cause more than 1,300 deaths every year in York and North Yorkshire.And the Wills, Gallaghers, Kings, Kents,Benson and Hedges, Rothmans, Players and Stuyvesant families have never spent a day in jail for murdering trillions with their cancer sticks of death.
working class tory
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9:49am Wed 13 Mar 13
BL2
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10:11am Wed 13 Mar 13
roskoboskovic
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11:13am Wed 13 Mar 13
Overproof
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11:16am Wed 13 Mar 13
Anyway, on the subject of plain packs, the policy has backfired in Australia, resulting in longer queues at shops and petrol stations as workers can't find the correct product and sort out mistakes, and smokers just started all using box stickers meaning cigs have never looked so cool.
Policy Fail
Bucktrout
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12:30pm Wed 13 Mar 13
Garrowby Turnoff wrote:That's on a par with accusing McDonalds and KFC of 'murdering' people every time someone dies of obesity.
Smoking is estimated to cause more than 1,300 deaths every year in York and North Yorkshire.And the Wills, Gallaghers, Kings, Kents,Benson and Hedges, Rothmans, Players and Stuyvesant families have never spent a day in jail for murdering trillions with their cancer sticks of death.
Unless of course the manufacturers are phsyically pushing the cigarettes into smokers' mouths and holding up the flame.
Buzz Light-year
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12:40pm Wed 13 Mar 13
alfie
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2:05pm Wed 13 Mar 13
Bucktrout wrote:No, fat people choose to stuff cream cakes and bacon sandwichs into there faces, ok so initially people choose to smoke but its not before long that you get addicted and then buy cigarettes and smoke because you are addicted. Those companys are drug pushers.
Garrowby Turnoff wrote:That's on a par with accusing McDonalds and KFC of 'murdering' people every time someone dies of obesity.
Smoking is estimated to cause more than 1,300 deaths every year in York and North Yorkshire.And the Wills, Gallaghers, Kings, Kents,Benson and Hedges, Rothmans, Players and Stuyvesant families have never spent a day in jail for murdering trillions with their cancer sticks of death.
Unless of course the manufacturers are phsyically pushing the cigarettes into smokers' mouths and holding up the flame.
Ignatius Lumpopo says...
9:35am Wed 13 Mar 13