emazur
08-26-2012, 09:10 PM
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/9492504/Tasmania-considers-cigarette-ban-for-anyone-born-after-2000.html
A week after Australia upheld its world-first laws plain packaging laws, Tasmania's upper house unanimously passed a motion to introduce the ban from 2018.
The measure was proposed by Ivan Dean, a Tasmanian independent MP, who said the ban would be easy to enforce because the state already has restrictions on sales of cigarettes to minors. It would be the world's first such age-based ban and is also reportedly being considered in Singapore and Finland.
Mr Dean, a former police officer and mayor, said the ban would prevent young people "from buying a product that they can't already buy" but would not affect adult smokers.
Seriously, has anyone ever read an article on Australia where they were taking some small step away from the nanny state?
Also, I find it interesting that liberals and progressives supposedly think you should be able to smoke marijuana but at the same time advocate government health care which makes what you choose to ingest everyone else's business, and therefore bannable.
A week after Australia upheld its world-first laws plain packaging laws, Tasmania's upper house unanimously passed a motion to introduce the ban from 2018.
The measure was proposed by Ivan Dean, a Tasmanian independent MP, who said the ban would be easy to enforce because the state already has restrictions on sales of cigarettes to minors. It would be the world's first such age-based ban and is also reportedly being considered in Singapore and Finland.
Mr Dean, a former police officer and mayor, said the ban would prevent young people "from buying a product that they can't already buy" but would not affect adult smokers.
Seriously, has anyone ever read an article on Australia where they were taking some small step away from the nanny state?
Also, I find it interesting that liberals and progressives supposedly think you should be able to smoke marijuana but at the same time advocate government health care which makes what you choose to ingest everyone else's business, and therefore bannable.