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Why don't they just outlaw smoking?

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Post March 24th, 2008, 11:27 am

Well its 18 in the Uk, I thought Scotland was to?
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Post March 24th, 2008, 11:27 am

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Post March 24th, 2008, 11:39 am

We have alot of different laws up here. It wouldn't surprise me if this was one that never changed, but in saying this we introduced the Smoking ban in public places a year before it was introduced in England, so i'd be surprised if the age of smoking didn't go up at the same time.
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Post March 24th, 2008, 12:00 pm

Money. Why should they want to outlaw a cash cow? They're raking in far too much revenue from increased taxes.

We ARE talking about a government (esp. CONGRESS) that thinks increased deficit spending can fix an ailing economy, after all.
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Post March 25th, 2008, 5:22 am

It's 18 here too. And I hate it when my neighbor smokes, the air literally looms into my house and I get to be passive smoker, :banghead:
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Post March 25th, 2008, 5:55 am

it was 16 here in SA and recently (last year) it moved up to 18, but law enforcement here isn't very tight so 16yo people can still get away with buying smokes ... I have been smoking for four years roughly btw ...
Let's leave all our *plum* where it is and go live in the jungle ...
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Post March 25th, 2008, 7:17 am

I just got back from Las Vegas last night and it was great:

Walk through the hotel's, lite one up.
Walk through the casino's, lite one up.
Walk down the street, lite one up (and drink yoru beverage of choice).

It's once again, people trying to push themselves into your life.
Stand Up! STand Up and Shout!
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Post March 27th, 2008, 9:26 am

wait hang on here why would the goverment would want to ban smoking really, how many millions of dollors do they get in tax from the people paying for death but don't get me wrong they have a lot of my money i can tell u now.
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Post March 27th, 2008, 9:29 am

That's true, the less people smoke, the less monety they get from the taxes, the more they tax everybody!
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Post March 27th, 2008, 9:53 am

Just read some of the news today, selling cigarette's under the counters of shops.

In the hope that its less noticable to the public, Hopefully reducing the amount of people that smoke.

I am intrested to see what happens.
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Post March 28th, 2008, 5:48 am

the asians have shotty deals if u know how to ask them. tax free sigs. for like half the price
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Post March 28th, 2008, 8:47 am

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the asians have shotty deals if u know how to ask them. tax free sigs. for like half the price


Tax free isnt this illegal?
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Post March 28th, 2008, 10:29 am

Of course it is. You are stealing from the government by not paying any tax on the items they choose to tax.
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Post March 28th, 2008, 10:40 am

So those " asians " that are doing that should be arrested.
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Post March 28th, 2008, 10:49 am

They should be.
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Post March 28th, 2008, 11:55 am

But saying that, They never will be :(
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