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| Thread ID: 106819 | 2010-01-24 19:55:00 | Tobacco tax could fund fight against diabetes - Turia | pctek (84) | PC World Chat |
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| 851456 | 2010-02-03 07:31:00 | Just found this - thought it pertinent to this thread: A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment. -Cyril Connolly, critic and editor (1903-1974) It may be pertinent but I, for one, do not believe critics as such. A simple analogy may be film critics where you read we give xyz 1 star and you enjoy the film. Or we give xyz 5 stars and you get bored in the first 15 minutes. Or wine tasters who are usually so far up themselves that it defys belief in any event. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 851457 | 2010-02-03 10:23:00 | You'll note he is dead though, Sweep. Like a politician, the best kind of critic is a dead one.... ;) | johcar (6283) | ||
| 851458 | 2010-02-03 10:51:00 | You'll note he is dead though, Sweep. Like a politician, the best kind of critic is a dead one.... ;) As I have said before.......................... You don't get to vote for public servants who actually advise the Government of the day. Heaps of truth in "Yes Minister" and "Yes Prime Minister" in my view. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 851459 | 2010-02-03 21:06:00 | Putting up the price of tobacco is only going to starve the children of the smoking parents. Addicted smokers will likely see their kids without a meal instead of cutting back or quitting. |
Coaster (270) | ||
| 851460 | 2010-02-19 00:03:00 | What a joke! At the moment all of us non-smokers are penalised by smokers' "inability to control themselves"! You are whingeing about paying a bit more tax to pay for the consequences of smokers' habits, whilst the rest of us pay squillions to provide health care for smokers' self inflicted and completely predictable health problems. My mind boggles at the illogicality of your post. :waughh: Personally, I would raise tobacco tax high enough so that smokers would pay for the yearly cost smokers impose on the rest of the population. Righto...You could possibly apologise and express how grateful you are to smokers. In 1999-2000, smokers paid $950 million in excise, according to Treasury's 2001 Tax Review, and it is now more than $1.1 billion. Treatment, by comparison, is estimated at $225m. www.stuff.co.nz |
Metla (12) | ||
| 851461 | 2010-02-19 00:47:00 | Putting up the price of tobacco is only going to starve the children of the smoking parents. Addicted smokers will likely see their kids without a meal instead of cutting back or quitting. Thats a rough comment mate, and as both a smoker and parent, I think your talking out of your ass. You cant compare the low social economic peasants of our communities with the rest of society. |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 851462 | 2010-02-19 01:48:00 | This country loves racist policy, and seeing as this is a Maori party initiative with Maori concerns, How about we only raise the price for Maori's, specifically Maori's with kids. | Metla (12) | ||
| 851463 | 2010-02-19 01:55:00 | This country loves racist policy, and seeing as this is a Maori party initiative with Maori concerns, How about we only raise the price for Maori's, specifically Maori's with kids. Love to hear Turia and the Hawawera fellows comments on that idea. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 851464 | 2010-02-19 03:20:00 | This country loves racist policy, and seeing as this is a Maori party initiative with Maori concerns, How about we only raise the price for Maori's, specifically Maori's with kids. I bet their ethnicity changes to Caucasian in the diary when they are buying their smokes. |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 851465 | 2010-02-19 03:30:00 | And this will be for maori's only I suspect. Of course. They are the most hard done by. (Even though it is mostly self inflicted) |
xyz823 (13649) | ||
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