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Out of nowhere, my friend Robyn contracted pneumonia this week and ended up in hospital, gasping for breath and coughing her lungs up. It was a scary sight, seeing this dynamic, strong chick totally debilitated and struggling for oxygen.
“Anyone who’s thinking about taking up smoking should get a little dose of pneumonia,” she said with a wheeze. “I can’t believe anyone would voluntarily do this to their bodies by sucking on cigarettes.”
I toyed with fags at about 16. It was glamour that got me in: the silky silver packaging and swirling royal blue font of the Stirling Special Mild brand. Most of my friends were into it too. My, how we thought we looked urbane and adult – maybe even old enough to buy drinks at the bar of the local Curramulka Hotel.
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Plug the word nanny into the website of free market think tank, the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA), and you would be forgiven for thinking that they were an au pair agency.
No less than 190 opinion pieces, articles, press releases and reports use the word. IPA’s nanny obsession reaches fever pitch in 2011, with IPA spokesmen Tim Wilson and Chris Berg whipping off articles condemning the nanny state quicker than you can say supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
And now Big Tobacco has jumped on the nanny state bandwagon with the launch of its plain packaging attack campaign NoNannyState.
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jan says:
Tanja, have you been invited to appear on the drum or on john faine’s programme like Tim Wilson et al? I think there is a bit of jealousy at play here as they can’t handle them getting a lot of media attention, they don’t invite just any-one and invest time… Read more »
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HELEN says:
That is not democracy its called plutocracy and polarising people. EXTREMISM for troglodytes. have a nice day anon and relax peeps Read more »
Kids say olive brown is the colour of sick. And that’s what smoking will make you - in fact it will actually kill you.
The fight to lower the smoking rate and reduce the impact of death and disease on the Australian community has been one of the great public health battles of the past 30 years.
It is a fight the community is winning, but has not yet won. Big Tobacco has deep pockets and the fight has been played out in court rooms and column inches across the country.
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debra says:
well this is so political the damn politics thinks that they can tell us not to smoke next they are going to tell us we cant use the toilet. i am so sick of paying for the politians wages and between the local state and fedral i hate to tell… Read more »
Commonsense, let alone science, tells us that no level of smoking is safe or healthy.
Yet 2.9 million Australians smoke each day and smoking continues to be the leading cause of preventable death in Australia. Each year smoking kills 15,000 Australians and costs the economy more than $31 billion.
With this sort of impact, we can’t afford not to act. By not acting to reduce smoking, we’re standing by letting people die.
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Colin Fraser says:
No doubt you do not understand the concept of sarcasm. While it may be considered by some a low form of wit, it is often accurately gauging the perceptions of the people who misunderstand it. Prohibition never works. Never, never, never. It does not matter what is banned, what is… Read more »
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