Posted Tuesday 5th May 2009 13:31 GMT
... if the health risks from smoking are anywhere as great as the health risks from disobeying the local party officials?
Anon because I like getting a takeaway.
Posted Tuesday 5th May 2009 13:31 GMT
The wonderful Beeb stated "Those who did not smoke enough .... faced being fined or even fired. "
Are they forcing people to smoke or forcing people to simply switch their brand of cig? Slight difference if they force non-smokers to smoke just to raise taxes...
Posted Tuesday 5th May 2009 13:31 GMT
My first thought when I saw the headline was "Umm, novel way of dealing with Swine Flu but doesn't a flu virus infect the whole body not just the nose?"
This was closely followed by "But pigs have snot running from their noses practically 24/7 so how can you tell if it's got the flu?!"
Guess I need to spend more time inside, or watching some more Porridge repeats...
Posted Tuesday 5th May 2009 13:31 GMT
<Homer> mmmmm, smoked snouts </Homer>
Posted Tuesday 5th May 2009 13:31 GMT
Well at least they are up front and honest about it. None of the pretend politics crap we have to put up with in the west.
Posted Tuesday 5th May 2009 14:41 GMT
The beeb is now reporting a U-turn
"But the government has now backtracked from the policy, after a report in a local newspaper generated criticism."
Posted Tuesday 5th May 2009 14:43 GMT
<snark> OK, how do you keep those snouts lit? </snark>
It reminds me when a hippie asked Jed Clampett how they kept crawdads lit...
Mine's the one with the non-Commie pack of smokes in the inside pocket...
Posted Tuesday 5th May 2009 20:45 GMT
At least they did a U-Turn on it. Because really that was a totally daft move even for the Chinese government. A bunch who have specialized in rules and regulations that defy all logic for many many years now.
Posted Tuesday 5th May 2009 23:10 GMT
I think a factor of at least 1000 has fallen off this story - according to a very quick calculation, 230,000 packets of 20 comes to only about 60 cases, or rougly one pallet.
I cannot see one pallet of cigarettes making a significant difference to any tax regime !
Chris Cosgrove
Posted Thursday 7th May 2009 08:46 GMT
Hasn't Swine Flu taught everyone that smoked snouts risk trickynoses?
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