Just interested. Could you tell us what nonsmokers die of; what you will die of? Do nonsmokers die “wonderful” deaths attended by a choir singing their praises for never having smoked. Or, maybe they don’t die at all, ever, as some antismokers seem to believe. Please inform us.

rhwombat, you are obviously not familiar with the idea of karma. You should be very careful of what you think is due to others. You might end up inviting it for yourself.

You pathetic, sneering, self-deluding addict of the the most evil product since slavery was outlawed. I work with the same disadvantaged men (generally victims of the ‘alcohol and other drugs’ culture which somehow manages to rationalise the most addictive substance as OK, at least when in the pub or prison) that you use to as an excuse to rant about the “affront to human dignity”, only when I see them, it is to try and do something about their presentation with one of the diseases imaged. That would be in the public hospitals in which I have worked for 30 years, looking after the victims of your “habit”, far from the private and corporate largesse that you try to tar me with. Bugger off, you posturing dilettante.

Guess what alistair? those pictures are real people, suffering real affronts to their dignity for the benefit of the corporate slavers. You and the “disadvantaged men” whom you patronisingly co-opt to your public squeamishness are not the target. For you and your mates, it’s already too late: your smoking has already lit the fuse on your malignancies and vascular disease. The images are to try to stop your corporate slave masters from recruiting new smokers for profit and to dilute out the guilt that you try to suppress. So suck it up sweetheart, and I’ll see you in a few years time. Think of this when you light up one of your “disadvantaged” clients cigarettes.

We could try outlawing tobacco, but we have used that model in our war against drugs and succeeded only in making millionaires of some very nasty people.

The third way, plain packaging and TV advertising and other unfriendly policies just harass tobacco.

When will we use similar harassment against alcohol?

We could try outlawing tobacco, but we have used that model in our war against drugs and succeeded only in making millionaires of some very nasty people.with other

The third way, plain packaging and TV advertising and other unfriendly policies just harass tobacco.

When will we use similar harassment against alcohol?

http://www.santiagotimes.cl/chile/politics/25556-chiles-congress-bans-smoking-in-bars-restaurants-and-nightclubs

Plain packaging is another example of us taking a bold step while other nations waver. The cigarette manufacturers know they are on borrowed time, they are merely delaying the inevitable decline of their business.

And NO, JB - the Europeans don’t have a problem, WE DO!! If the Aus government was fair dickum, it would have made tobacco illegal. But no - it still likes to fleece the tobacco user with huge taxes. Hypocrites.

The europeans appear to have a governance problem… so what’s new?