Now Oz to ban online cigarette ads Once a government has become used to the idea of banning things, it can be a hard habit to give up – as Australian voters who still enjoy the occasional cigarette are likely to soon find out. This time last week, Down Under's Minister for Health and Ageing, Nicola Roxon, stood up in the Australian parliament and introduced a …
Tobacco advertising was banned many years ago (when Mrs Cripps was 'young and charming' for all you HMS Pinafore fans).
It merely demonstrates that Australia's parliaments are no more than legislation factories: 'Oh, is that a problem? We'll legislate!' "You have convinced me that this is a problem. We'll legislate!"
Soon there won't be enough room to breathe for all the rules and regulations.
American bloke over here in the UK' promoting his book says on the cover of said book....
'Don't vote, you just encourage the bas*ards'
And as it becomes more obvious day by day politicians are a complete waste of space, they must justify what they are for daily, shame they do it by drafting such nonsense.
Long live the interweb its death starts here.
My Evil Cousin - he is a LAWYER - works in Our Glorious Government's "Public Service".
They get paid by the hour to write this sh1t, so he takes as loooooong as he wants, and writes sh1t like the above quoted excrement. Sorry, "Legislation".
As an aside, his mum (my mum's sister) somehow managed to wrangle the family house off their parents, much to the chagrin of my mum and her brother. Yes, this sounds like 'Eastenders'.
Yes, they are a family of top-shelf white collar CRIMINALS, but then EVERYONE in positions of government in this rat & bed-bug infested hellhole of a country is.
All the above is true, and makes me angry, mostly because I'm related to these tuckfards.
OK, I too have never seen a tobacco ad on the internet. I may be subconsciously ignoring them... But I suspect they don't exist.
This seems to me to be an attempt to be seen to be doing something after the plain packaging thing got retail associations all upset about lost sales (duh - that was the idea of the plan).
What they should do is outright ban the bloody things. They're costing us more than it's worth (as a society).
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