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    Hide Cigarettes

    2/3 yrs ago on this forum we were talking about banding smoking at dance venues

    Now we got proposal to hide cigarettes

    what a load of tosh


    Shops may have to hide cigarettes - Yorkshire Post

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    Re: Hide Cigarettes

    Quote Originally Posted by stewart38 View Post
    2/3 yrs ago on this forum we were talking about banding smoking at dance venues

    Now we got proposal to hide cigarettes

    what a load of tosh


    Shops may have to hide cigarettes - Yorkshire Post
    tosh ? makes sense to me - doesn't stop you buying them

    and 3 years ago Ceroc Scotland had already banned smoking at all venues

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadful Scathe View Post
    tosh ? makes sense to me - doesn't stop you buying them

    and 3 years ago Ceroc Scotland had already banned smoking at all venues
    Can't see that making them 'under the counter' will have the required effect.

    A better solution would be to pass a law that all cigarette packets are white with printed text in black only; all brand names to be in a font no larger than 20% of the size of the health warning, and any other manufacturer information no larger than 10%. No logos at all. No Point of sale displays permitted at all.

    Cigarette packets will become boring, even if they are on display.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadful Scathe View Post
    tosh ? makes sense to me - doesn't stop you buying them

    and 3 years ago Ceroc Scotland had already banned smoking at all venues
    There was a comedian, whose name I forget but on a tape which was made in 1988 said that it was less shameful to buy condoms then cigarettes. He was half joking but today?

    Maybe you and he has a point

    Although getting in a queue waiting for a smoker to identify the packet he wants under the counter (shop assistant showing 25 packets before they get the right one? maybe not good. However good stuff for the Comedy Clubs)

    We put porn on the top shelfs so the kids have to ask adults if they want to have a look. However 'kids today' reach about 6ft by age 5 so guess that makes no difference

    I think im changing my mind already

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    The Tory's had the "brilliant" idea, recently, of putting up the price of cigarettes so high, that most people could not afford them.

    It would never work, plus, it's just another tax scam.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Astro View Post
    The Tory's had the "brilliant" idea, recently, of putting up the price of cigarettes so high, that most people could not afford them.

    It would never work, plus, it's just another tax scam.

    Yes as there is a place called FRANCE

    We should cut the price of onions and do swaps at the tunnel onions for fags, a crying shame

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    Re: Hide Cigarettes

    Quote Originally Posted by stewart38 View Post
    There was a comedian, whose name I forget but on a tape which was made in 1988 said that it was less shameful to buy condoms then cigarettes. He was half joking but today?

    Maybe you and he has a point

    Although getting in a queue waiting for a smoker to identify the packet he wants under the counter (shop assistant showing 25 packets before they get the right one? maybe not good. However good stuff for the Comedy Clubs)

    We put porn on the top shelfs so the kids have to ask adults if they want to have a look. However 'kids today' reach about 6ft by age 5 so guess that makes no difference

    I think im changing my mind already
    Wow, that was a weird experience...

    I thought this was a s38 post, but by the time I got to the end of it there'd been no spurious uncapitalised words, no weird full stops in the middle of a sentence, no bizarre spelling errors, no grammatical collapse leading to incomprehensibility. "Oh", thinks I, "better check whose post it was; must have been mistaken in thinking it was Stewart..."

    So: note to self: don't pigeon hole people.

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    Re: Hide Cigarettes

    h

    Just think of the drain on NHS resouces of all those tobaconists developing chronic back problems ;-)

    (And the undercounter area is pretty full of other stuff anyway !!)
    Last edited by Whitebeard; 26th-March-2008 at 01:01 AM.

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    Re: Hide Cigarettes

    Quote Originally Posted by stewart38 View Post
    There was a comedian, whose name I forget but on a tape which was made in 1988 said that it was less shameful to buy condoms then cigarettes.
    Well, I'd wouldn't get ID'd trying to buy condoms.

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    Re: Hide Cigarettes

    Quote Originally Posted by Sliced Bread View Post
    Well, I'd wouldn't get ID'd trying to buy condoms.
    No, but they might ask you 'what size?'

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    Re: Hide Cigarettes

    Quote Originally Posted by Barry Shnikov View Post
    No, but they might ask you 'what size?'
    There's no small, medium or large anymore, it's the same with men's underpants.

    No man liked to ask for a small size So now it's medium, large and extra large.

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    Re: Hide Cigarettes

    Quote Originally Posted by Astro View Post
    So now it's medium, large and extra large.
    No, no, no, it's small, medium, liar.

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    Re: Hide Cigarettes

    I thought when it came (no pun intended) to buying condoms the sizes were medium (no admission to anything less), large and OMG

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    Re: Hide Cigarettes

    Strange isn't it, but we women like our knickers labelled petite, very small and small.

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    Re: Hide Cigarettes

    i tried hiding my mums cigarettes...it didn't work

    all i got was a slap in the face and even though id squashed the packet and threw them into the bin...she still stomped to the shop to buy more...

    my theory is once your a smoker and your addicted anything that stops you from smoking makes you more agressive

    so hiding mums richmonds really didn't help the situation

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