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Published Date: 21 November 2007
MSPS yesterday called for a crackdown on vending machines selling cigarettes over fears children are using them to bypass strict new laws on smoking.
The legal age for buying tobacco was raised from 16 to 18 earlier this year as part of a number of measures to cut smoking.

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  • Last Updated: 20 November 2007 9:50 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Smoking issues
 
1

Charles Linskaill,

Edinburgh 21/11/2007 01:25:51

"Cigarette machine crackdown call"
Geezo, do you think our 'teenie's' are stupid or something?
MSPS, must have forgotten their 'teen' years, maybe something, 'strange' has happened to their 'Brains',

'Strong-willed', 'Determined', 'Resourceful', 'Cunning',
Need I go on??..........'NO'
It wont make a, 'HOOT-O- DIFFERENCE', will it?
They 'WILL', still get 'that Puff' if they want it!!

2

Charles Linskaill,

Edinburgh 21/11/2007 01:36:29

'LONG LIVE OUR TEENIE'S'
After-all, they will be the 'Driving-force' of the next generation!
We are only becoming, the 'Old-F**t's' and will,
'LAUGH-IN-OUR-FACES'!!
Its called, 'Natures-Way', lets give them a break!
'F**ty-Pants'

3

Scullion,

Canada 21/11/2007 01:54:21

I haven't seen a cigarette machine in years. I thought they'd either be stolen or sold to lung cancer museums.

4

Ginster's Pastie,

Putting a poly bag over Broon's heid 21/11/2007 03:19:35

I'm all for young teenagers smoking.

The increased revenue.

The reduction in future pension costs.

The impaired motility of their sperm and reduced fertility in girls helping keep the numbers of their mewling spawn to a minimum.

F*ck it - it should be mandatory for them!

5

AbandonAllHope,

21/11/2007 09:21:40

# 3 I know, nae wonder they've all gone, it was something like 6 quid for 16 bingo fags.

6

AbandonAllHope,

21/11/2007 09:23:02

Ha Ha ! Theres a copy of Pulse outside my door, the hootsman must be desperate.

7

Alternative (High Octane) Fuel Head,

Edinburgh 21/11/2007 11:27:40

I see that the nazi scum are on the warpath again. They won't be content until they have created a totalitarian state, free of booze, fags and fatty foods.

At least in the 1970s we only had Mary Whitehouse and the trades unions to contend with. Now we have bands of organised neo-nazis who refuse to keep their noses out of everyones lives.

I read a good quote in BIKE magazine the other day---"The 1970s was a time when your business was none of anyone elses business..."

I can go along with that. where did we go wrong such that the nanny state and nazis are now in control? I have a feeling that events in 1997 had a lot to do with it---and I'm not talking about Diana's death either.

8

Colin Gee,

Banff 21/11/2007 14:01:36

Mr Pasties observations are quite incorrect.

If tobacco really does affect sperm motility, and female fertility, I just cant wait to hear his explanation of the Baby Boom following WWII, when over 70% of men, and over 55% of women, smoked.

Or perhaps he can explain the population explosion in China where 60% of adult males smoke?

Or maybe, just maybe, he should stop listening to tripe put out by greedy self-serving anti-smoker lobby groups?

9

Alternative (High Octane) Fuel Head,

Edinburgh 21/11/2007 16:12:06

#8:

Colin,

We all know that the antis talk rubbish. When you think about it, they HAVE to talk rubbish because they have to invent reasons behind and justification for their stance. Simply saying "...because we don't like it..." isn't enough.

Smoking isn't anything like as bad for you as is currently being made out. Passive smoking does not exist. They've re-defined the term "binge drinking" to mean anything more than their rediculously low "recommended daily maximum". The effects of salt and fat on diet are nothing like as bad as they make them out to be. They can't even agree on which lies to tell on the health front!

The major problem nowadays compared to 15-20 years ago is that government is prepared to listen to the antis' lies, are daft enough to believe them and their junk science and then go on to base policy on it.

We need a government who is prepared to put the antis back in their boxes and reverse the 10 years of oppression that the labour government has fostered as a result.

10

Alternative (High Octane) Fuel Head,

Edinburgh 21/11/2007 17:18:01

#10:

Well said Stef!

See my post at http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1831932007

11

Maurice,

fife 21/11/2007 19:05:14

Oh I am just so sick of reading everyday how some sad f@@k feels he needs to dictate to the rest of the world on how to be a collective bunch of sad f@@ks. Why dont these MSPs just call for a ban on humans?

12

Petrol Head (again),

Edinburgh 22/11/2007 00:20:58

#15:

Whatever Richard Doll might or might not have done, he never suggested that "passive smoking" existed and when confronted with the idea, he dismissed it out of hand.

Strange. Isn't "passive smoking" what the nazi state smoking ban is reputedly in place to stamp out?

13

David from New Mills,

Pleasantville, U.K. 22/11/2007 14:00:19

#13, Mandy & #17,stef.
David is alive and well and still managing to enjoy the fug free environment in his three pubs, but he just couldn't work up any enthusiasm for this thread. I've often said elsewhere that I have little interest in smokers coughing their way to an untimely death, just as long as it's away from my sensitive nostrils.
Note that p.h. and stef are still punching out their vituperative diatribes, and the former is still sprinkling his with generous helpings of nazi invective.
Speaking of absent friends, where's good old Clare77 these days. Not lost in the Cumbrian foothills, I trust?


 

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