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Call for urgent total ban on tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship in the Americas
On World No Tobacco Day, May 31, the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) is calling on countries throughout the Americas to ban tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship. Such bans are one of the most effective ways to reduce consumption of tobacco, which kills some 1 million people every year in this hemisphere. Read full article
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May 31st, 2013 - 09:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0Thankfully becoming less a habit in many countries. Australia recently introduced plain packaging which the tobacco companies fought tooth and nail against and lost.
Also I think Singapore has introduced laws that mean anyway born after the year 2000 can never legally smoke. So it will phase it out slowly over decades.
@1 Really? Have you ever read the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? Perhaps you should do so. You could start with Article 1. Then you could go on and pick out the ones that seek to eradicate discrimination. You could also read through the European Convention on Human Rights and the UK's very own Human Rights Act 1998. Now, as it happens, I am of the opinion that curry is disgusting. Even the odour is enough to make me want to vomit. Hardly surprising when I understand that it was originally concocted to disguise the quality of certain ingredients that otherwise no-one would eat. However, people do have the “human right” to prepare and ingest it. So I have to let them do it. In fact, were I in a position to do so, I wouldn't even consider a law banning it. I suggest that you view your attitudes in the same way.
May 31st, 2013 - 10:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0Sorry Conqu, I have to agree withAnglo on this one........I was living in Montreal in the early 90´s when they finally banned smoking in restaurants & bars. It was so nice being able to go out for a pint without coming home stinking like an old ashtray!!!
May 31st, 2013 - 12:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Conqs you speak shit at the best of times and this time more so than usual.
May 31st, 2013 - 02:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Smoking isn't a human right you bloody idiot.
I've yet to see a scientific study that shows you can develop cancer by sitting next to someone eating a curry.
Fool!
@3 You obviously have a problem with the concept of discrimination. See, you must allow people to do what they want. Within limits. If you don't you are discriminatory. You've been polite, so just try tol get over your bigotry.
May 31st, 2013 - 04:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@4 Thanks for your polite and erudite response. Seeing as you are shit, it's hardly appropriate for you to comment. Now let's take a look. You are anal, bigoted, crap, discriminatory and a tosser. Where did you get your “education”? A “roos” pouch? An argie excretion? Listen up, you dumb Ozzie. I didn't mention cancer. So my “habit” hasn't produced cancer in 50 years. And if it produces it in you? I don't care. Because you are clearly sub-normal.
As it happens, the right to enjoy one's possessions is a “human right”. Which only goes to show that the only “human rights” that you recognise are the ones that suit you. So you are no better than an argie. In fact you're probably worse than an argie. At least argies don't pretend to adhere to normal standards. Are there any standards that you pretend to adhere to? Aside from bigotry, discrimination, incontinence, neo-nazism, opportunism and so forth. such a shame. But it takes real effort to progress to real education, comprehension and assimilation. Out of 23 million, only about 10 or 15 have managed it. Don't feel bad, a thousand years or so and you might achieve civilisation. 500 years or so and you might even understand English. Or will you have to be speaking Chinese by then?
@Conqueror Curry may cause you to vomit but it does not kill. Smoking, in every study ever carried out by scientists kills. It is also incredibly dangerous for children in enclosed spaces such as cars or in rooms where their parents are smoking. Studies have shown that where smoking has been banned, incidents of cancer are significantly reduced and it's less likely that children will take up smoking if they don't see their parents smoking. To compare smoking and eating curry is like comparing worms and cars - you are utterly wrong on this and you have totally missed the point. If you are an RG it just goes to show the lack of any decent education in this backwards country. You are indeed a moron!
May 31st, 2013 - 04:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@Conqu
May 31st, 2013 - 05:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You're obviously a smoker & will defend your habit to the death......just like my father in law did when he wheeled down his IV machine 5 flights so he could go outside the hospital & have a smoke
His comments like 'it's my life & I'll do as I please' didn't reverberate too well with his wife, 4 daughters with their husbands & 8 grandchildren who had to watch him die a slow agonizing death
So Conqu, we accept your over the top comments when you are defending the Falklands but you're on your own with this one!!!
Conqs
Jun 01st, 2013 - 12:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0You continue to show your lack of education and intelligence. I rarely read your posts so it was enlightening today to finally read an entire post.
You're in a minority and there's nothing you can do about it. As an addict, you either ignore or disbelieve the science behind smoking related health effects. I don't.
We all die but you have the pleasure of knowing that you will die earlier because you smoke. And that is your choice. You have no right to impose a premature death on others. That is definitely a breach of someone's human right.
But you do make me smile that you believe enjoying smoking is a human right. I expect to see your case reach the UN any day now? No? Why? Why haven't any of the billions of smokers done that? Perhaps they have been advised by more intelligent people (who have lower levels of smoking) that such a move is load of pure bollocks.
Thankfully I live in a progressive society. You can hardly smoke anywhere now.
Not where food is prepared or eaten-no restaurants or cafes.
Only in special corrals in pubs and clubs-herded together getting a fix.
If it is raining and you are waiting for public transport you can't use a shelter but have to stand in the rain. Though there are plans to extend this to 10 metres for any public transport stop. It will be quite funny watching smokers stub out and then breathlessly run 10 metres. LOL
Even local councils have gone further; in some you can't smoke on beaches or in parks.
Oh you can't smoke in your own car if someone is aged under 18-probably protecting their human rights I guess.
And each year they introduce more. And more. And more. The noose is getting tighter and tighter. Hopefully in the not too distant future it will be confined to your own house. And will be banned everywhere else.
Smoking as a human right! PMSL Just go to show prove that smokers are indeed less educated.
Are all your posts this funny?
As a former smoker Uruguayan born living in Australia i am very proud that these two countries are pioneers in smoking bans especially Australia going even further with the plain tobbaco packaging. And to you conqueror ,your right stop where my starts.
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