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tobacco advertising is now banned in the UK with the exception of motor racing. errr, why? |
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bernie ecclestone's donation clearly had something to do with the deferral (for 3 years?) within motor racing. bullshit. |
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It's been banned for years in Australia. |
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Of course his donation to the Labour party has nothing to do with Labour prime minister Anthony Blair's spinelessness! |
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*president :P nice to see you paul. btw - hope everything is working out for you. roll on 30 and you'll feel much better :D |
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and so it should be... smoking should be done away with... |
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australians are the biggest smokers, and drinkers in the world. so obviously is hasn't made that much difference :) also, they continue to piss all over everyone (in particular england) at cricket, tennis, rugby, and now football. how embarassing :o/ i must smoke more! :D |
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you think banning tobacco advertising is going to stop millions of smokers from smoking? think again my friend |
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been thru strange times. I'm trying to ignore the fact that in 4 years (if I live that long) I'll be 30. I'm sure to be mr mature and sensible by then, honest *gulp* |
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to slightly hijack your thread with what should have been an aside in my previous post: email me your postal address, dobbin, and I'll send you a CD of my 2 new 'eps'. All I ask in return in your pantomime head and a dancing goat |
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I didn't actually say that, now did I... I said that both should be outlawed, not that outlawing tobacco advertising would eliminate smoking... but, allowing tobacco companies to advertise isn't helping the cause... Tobacco companies target young people, sometimes people not even legal age... so they get them young, and keep em... it should be BANNED EVERYWHERE!!!! I thought it was banned here... although I still see ads in magazines and stuff... I'm sure I saw one the other day... |
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You were hallucinating on that special brown stuff your mother slips into your bedtime cocoa, shortly before she reads you an endearing Winnie the Pooh tale....100 aker wood here we come. |
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God I need a cigarette. I can't have one because I quit. And if I start again my woman will have my balls on a plate with dipping sauce. |
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Are you allowed to chew tobacco? Or maybe you could get away with smoking a briar pipe and telling exciting tales of the seven seas? |
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no mr. funkmaster you didn't say that but no it shouldn't be banned and this is why: i don't think we should be banning advertising things that aren't illegal. are you going to ban the advertising of macdonalds hamburgers cause they make you fat and give you heart disease? are you going to ban advertising of fast cars cause people crash them and kill pedestrians on the road? are you going to ban advertising alchohol because it causes scirrosis of the liver? where do you stop this process? people in a mature society have to have the intelligence to make a choice. if you're going to patronise people to the extent that we're not going to let them make a choice, then you're on you're skating dodgy ground, especially as we are supposed to live in a democracy. |
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Part lawyer, part comedian, eh? No man, if I am going to take nicotine into my body, I'm going to do it the satisfying way, by sucking that sweet virginia cigarette flavor deep into my alveoli. No chaw or pipe-puff will ever come close to that. Fuck I better watch it or I'll be running out for a pack after the old ball an chain falls asleep. |
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DO IT! proclaim your liberty! Slip her some ether and soon you'll be lighting up a satisfying smoke and suddenly you'll be able to philosophise better and it also makes you more creative! |
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it should be banned... and that's my opinion... smoking should be made illegal... because, unlike hamburgers and all that which causes heart disease, I'm not killing anyone else if I eat a hamburger... second hand smoke does effect me, and I'd rather it not... also, I'd say most people start smoking at young ages, probably in high school... and, this is due mostly to peer pressure... peer pressure has the tendency to override any intelligent thought in a teenager a lot of the times... |
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AAAAAAAA get out of my brain. You know all the seductive whispers of the Tobacco Demons. I've been reading Junky by Burroughs and when he gets back on the junk in New Orleans, it's so damn casual, like "hey let's get some" and "okay". Starting smoking again is like that... for ages it never crosses your mind, then you're having a beer with a friend and "hey let's get some smokes" and the next thing you know you're drinking like a fish in the mistaken belief that it will help flush the nicotine out of your system. |
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believe me brother, it doesn't end at teenagers. Take a look around you and see the schumcks brainwashed by 'peer' pressure. |
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nod, definitely... |
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Junky is a great book--and you're absolutely right about how easy it is to slip back into those evil habits, I stopped smoking October 2001, and hey presto! Around rolls january 2003 and I find myself saying "I'm going to buy a pack of cigarettes" and there we are. Grrrimey! |
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i don't feel you've adressed my point, just re-iterated yours |
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shrug, I don't care... It's pretty clear that I did... I responded to your point about if we ban smoking ads should we ban ads for all other things which cause ailments, such as hamburgers as you mentioned... also, I responded to your point about how people should be intelligent enough to choose themselves... there you have it... |
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