Yet another example of government attempting to dictate how people live their lives. Government has thrown out the principle of personal responsibility by placing blame on things. Cigarettes do not kill people, misusing them does. Twenty ounce sodas do not make people any fatter than twenty ounce lattes but misusing them does. Government has also maligned the fast food industry which is a useful, lawful enterprise because some people over indulge and become obese, that is the responsibility of people who eat too much not the responsibility of fast food. Lastly, we hear "Guns kill people!" Guns do not kill people, people kill people. Left to themselves all guns can do is slowly rust away.
What we need is for government to get the hell out of our lives and leave us alone!
Bud
Australian Court OKs Cigarette Logo Ban: Should Your Country Do the Same?
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2012/08/16 22:00:00
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Starting this December, branding and logos from cigarette companies cannot be displayed anywhere on cigarette packages in Australia. According to CBS News, "the packs will instead come in a uniformly drab shade of olive and feature graphic health warnings and images of cancer-riddled mouths, blinded eyeballs and sickly children." The government hopes the new packs will make smoking as unglamorous as possible.
CBSNEWS.COM reports:
CBSNEWS.COM reports:
Cigarette packs in Australia on track to be stripped of corporate logos, despite tobacco lobbying
Read More: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57493362/austr...
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Bud 2012/08/17 14:35:50
This used to be a free country until so many stupid laws have turned it into a police state.
I don't give a damn who smokes, I am perfectly fine taking care of my own business. I don't need or want a Nanny State telling people how to live.
The problem is all these governments are allowing the companies to add stuff to the tobacco that is actually the culprit in many of the side effects of smoking. To make things worse the US finally put tobacco under the FDA. Did they make regulations to get the poisons removed from tobacco??? No!!! In fact the added another poison that with has a really bad side effect... It will cause Neurological damage to the central nervous system...
That is what called for it. Our government shouldn't tell businesses what they can put on their product packaging, unless it is inappropriate for some people. They have every right to try to make pleasant looking packaging in order to try to gain a broader customer base.
That said, my mother smokes, neither of her children, or her, have developed any problems from it. The only people who do end up with problems are the ones with weak genetics.
It is up to the people if they're going to smoke or not, young or old. If you think that the government should be our parent, and babysitter, constantly there, holding our hands, telling us what we should and shouldn't do because it's good or bad for us, then that's all you, and contrary to what your political affiliation says, is a very liberal belief.
The people who choose to smoke can read the side, if they want to, they get to hear about how bad drugs (including cigarettes) are in D.A.R.E. programs. So, I would imagine that most of them know what they're doing.
People shouldn't be crucified for what they choose to do with their liberty.
You think that the people smoking want to see those images on their packs of cigarettes? Not that it matters, does it? whether they do or not, as long as you're "discouraging" them from smoking. It doesn't matter how the images make them feel, because if they disgust them, enough, who knows? They may just quit. Yes? Is that your defense for it? That it doesn't matter that the government is controlling totally reasonable packaging that is meant, as all product packaging is intended, to be appealing, as long as it is discouraging people from doing what they want by inciting a potentially visceral response through such imagery, yes?
I'm pretty sure that post was hyperbole-free.
What is the role of the federal government in the Constitution? Foreign Relations - Diplomacy and Defense. That's pretty much it.
If people want to destroy their bodies, it's their choice, just like if women want to abort, it's their choice, as long as I'm free and over 21, I don't want the government playing "parent." I had enough overprotectiveness for one lifetime.