Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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Screens are now to cover up Tobacco and Cigarette Displays in Supermarkets - presumably to stop reminding people to buy cigarettes -
BUT, CONVERSELY, on the screens which were shown on this morning's TV news, in large letters "Tobacco" is written across the screens !!
Surely this defeats the object !!
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Brian Dixon
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noticed this yesterday in morrisons yesterday but without the tobacco signs,but they do have a a4 size folder with the word tobacco on it.just like a catolog.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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All this is based on one piece of research..that teenagers are attracted to smoking because of the colourful displays. As you are a recycled teenager Kath I expect you are up to speed with this one...lol!
I saw one such display in Sainsbury's last week and I hadnt a clue what was going on...but of course it has since emerged. There were no Tobacco signs on it. I'm sure this is just fiddling with the edges of the problem though. The use of smoking in movies which is widespread is more likely to be the spur for the young rather than displays of colourful boxes.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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there should be two [2] labels on tobacco produts,1,cant be botherd to make them and 2,make your own.
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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As you know, I am anti-smoking. But even I can't quite see the purpose of this one. I suppose it is part way to removing the stuff from sale altogether or sending it back to tobacconists. That's a good plan, now - like off licences used to be the place to buy booze, tobacconists used to be the place to buy, well, tobacco! Not a bad plan to keep it all in one place - easier to police for, for example, underage drinking.............
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That's certainly a good idea, Bern. Keep sales of tobacco and alcohol all in one place only.
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Keith Sansum1
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if the govt is serious on defeating smoking, this proposal will do little to help with the govt's cause.
another poorly thought out proposal
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Guest 667- Registered: 6 Apr 2008
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I do not smoke but I think this idea of covering them up is a total joke. Do they think kids are stupid or what? Most children that want to try the weed do so from 10 upwards and they will know full well by then what is behind the curtain. Someone will have to move the curtain to sell the tobacco items and children will see just where the adults get them, they will soon learn just the same where you get them and the more it is a secret the more children will be curious.
If the law states that shops must cover the tobacco products and they can put signs saying what is behind the curtains then at least make them put in large letters Smoking Kills". All in all though I think the whole idea is from those who want to rule everyone else's lives.
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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What I can't understand is why this type of law doesn't apply to alcohol as well. It is a well established fact that alcohol kills millions every year and yet it is accepted as something of a leisure pursuit when in reality it kills people, breaks up families and costs the country billions.
The same can also be said of food with a high fat content which again causes the early deaths of hundreds of thousands.
What make me laugh is when fat people suggest to me that it might be wise for me to stop smoking. Now that really is bizarre.
Guest 664- Registered: 23 Mar 2008
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Studies in countries that have already taken this step - e.g. Ireland and New Zealand - have shown that it has reduced the attraction of smoking to young people. The measure is based on sound research.
A friend of mine - a heavy smoker - has recently been diagnosed with lung cancer. I applaud this ban.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Whether you are a smoker, drinker, over eater or just plain careless we shall all die, but there is simply no rush.
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Thank you for that Andrew - I am sorry about your friends diagnosis. Anything that supports people in giving up this addiction has to be good.
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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So how are we to protect fatties from themselves? Which laws can be passed to enable these poor unfortunates from themselves and more importantly protect their children who eat too much copying the example of their selfish fat parents?
Jan Higgins
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The daft thing about this is that smaller shops can still display cigarettes until 2015. I really do not see the logic of this and would have thought these shops could move them under the counter rather than have them on display.
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Philip #14
We could produce less meat. Less meat means less unmentionable hard-to-sell bits of beast that require a great deal of processing and a great many additives and much gaudy advertising and packaging.
So, if any or all wish to see fewer 'fatties' around, either feed them up so they be house-bound or each and all eat less meat and drink less milk.
Anything else I can help you with this morning?
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Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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Oh no what's wrong with meat and milk?
I'm convinced that we live in a world where most people are either hypochondriac or bordering on this affliction. They blindly believe everything they hear from the experts and politicians and still believe that they are exercising free thought. They have neither the capacity for free thought or free thinking but merely second hand opinions which they believe because those in authority tell them so.
It makes me wonder why we have elections.
It's this same group think thought process that is to blame for the situation we are in at the moment.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Nobody suggested there was anything intrinsically wrong with either meat or milk, or indeed, anything wrong with the moderate consumption of same.
All things in moderation. Is that not true?
There is no longer an industry the purpose of which is to feed the nation. [there are some small enterprises, but we are talking mass-market here]
It is all about the bottom line...
The more meat & milk produced the more waste has to be disposed of. What better way of squaring this circle than reducing waste by re-packaging it as 'tasty morsels'?
The food that is cheap and (chemically) tasty is the food most consumed by those overweight. ergo There are greater numbers of fatties amongst the growing number of poor, but less waste and more profit.
Is chocolate consumed for it's health benefits or more likely because it (somehow) tastes good? This is what is exploited to the nth degree in the re-packaging of meat & milk by-products. To reduce 'fatties' we must reduce 'by-products' to reduce by-products we must reduce the production of meat & milk.
If you wish to be provided with a plentiful and ever-ready supply of meat & milk then get over the loathing of fatties, for they suffer FOR you.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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a lot more could have been done if the govt was sincere in its proposals.
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Philip, you under and over estimate people, all at the same time! Congratulations.
