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pawelk1986
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22 Feb 2016, 11:36 am

Is it true that in Australia prohibits the sale to persons born after 2000?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/ ... s-say.html

and that my question on Yahoo Answer

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/inde ... 830AAtrRDJ



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22 Feb 2016, 11:43 am

Just in the first few lines one can read that doctors are calling for a ban. But I doubt most politicians want to loose the tax-income.



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22 Feb 2016, 11:54 am

Does Australia have tobacco farmers, or cigarette manufacturers? That is: enough to form a powerful lobby against this?

Not that I am taking sides about it.



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22 Feb 2016, 11:55 am

Sigbold wrote:
Just in the first few lines one can read that doctors are calling for a ban. But I doubt most politicians want to loose the tax-income.


It happens in Australia, fortunately Polish teenagers can sleep peacefully, because Poland borders with Ukraine, Belarus and most importantly with Kaliningrad :D



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22 Feb 2016, 12:02 pm

pawelk1986 wrote:
Sigbold wrote:
Just in the first few lines one can read that doctors are calling for a ban. But I doubt most politicians want to loose the tax-income.


It happens in Australia, fortunately Polish teenagers can sleep peacefully, because Poland borders with Ukraine, Belarus and most importantly with Kaliningrad :D


So you have porous borders with corrupt neighbors?



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22 Feb 2016, 12:52 pm

naturalplastic wrote:
pawelk1986 wrote:
Sigbold wrote:
Just in the first few lines one can read that doctors are calling for a ban. But I doubt most politicians want to loose the tax-income.


It happens in Australia, fortunately Polish teenagers can sleep peacefully, because Poland borders with Ukraine, Belarus and most importantly with Kaliningrad :D


So you have porous borders with corrupt neighbors?


Not really, but it has its advantages sometimes :mrgreen:
Among other things, such as the ability to show the government the "middle finger" when the government allows them self to much :D



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22 Feb 2016, 4:40 pm

Whenever I hear the word "ban" it sets off alarms since it is a favorite word of do-gooders, fascists, and control freaks in general.
Smoking is on a continual decline so there is no need to ban or further control what is already on the wane.


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22 Feb 2016, 5:08 pm

The GOP would have to ban religion to stay relevant.


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