tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post4172176449387154371..comments2023-10-17T15:56:22.827+01:00Comments on Velvet Glove, Iron Fist: When in doubt, call them deniersChristopher Snowdonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15963753745009712865noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-63075191987477615702014-06-19T08:29:14.492+01:002014-06-19T08:29:14.492+01:00Anonymous comment on 18 June is absolutely spot on...Anonymous comment on 18 June is absolutely spot on. I have been purchasing Duty Free, black-market cigarettes for the past year from the same source. He seems to have no problems ensuring supply and more and more of his trusted customers are purchasing the better quality, cheaper, and branded duty free products. The black market is booming. But naturally these figures cannot be assessed or incorporated into so-called research studies. It is also worth noting that the plain package cigarettes currently on sale in Australia are all being made and packaged from the same source in South Korea - irrespective of the brand. You can taste how cheap and horrible these products are. Its another reason why the black-market is proliferating - access to better quality products. When will the zealots learn that restrictions and prohibitions simply don't work?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-78475346959427735272014-06-19T08:29:13.520+01:002014-06-19T08:29:13.520+01:00Anonymous comment on 18 June is absolutely spot on...Anonymous comment on 18 June is absolutely spot on. I have been purchasing Duty Free, black-market cigarettes for the past year from the same source. He seems to have no problems ensuring supply and more and more of his trusted customers are purchasing the better quality, cheaper, and branded duty free products. The black market is booming. But naturally these figures cannot be assessed or incorporated into so-called research studies. It is also worth noting that the plain package cigarettes currently on sale in Australia are all being made and packaged from the same source in South Korea - irrespective of the brand. You can taste how cheap and horrible these products are. Its another reason why the black-market is proliferating - access to better quality products. When will the zealots learn that restrictions and prohibitions simply don't work?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-50941453809263937422014-06-18T17:45:01.158+01:002014-06-18T17:45:01.158+01:00When people agree with antismoking measures, it’s ...When people agree with antismoking measures, it’s because antismokers are right.<br /><br />When people disagree with antismoking measures, it’s because antismokers are right.<br /><br />Antismokers are always right.<br /><br />Can’t get more scientific than that.<br /><br />:)<br />JohnBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05165051324276559561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-74875383269112601352014-06-18T16:08:21.175+01:002014-06-18T16:08:21.175+01:00That decline in sales after the tax rise is probab...That decline in sales after the tax rise is probably accounted for by the no doubt many consumers who have turned to the black market.Lancastrian Oiknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-6952360493115966172014-06-18T15:51:27.171+01:002014-06-18T15:51:27.171+01:00Your right they are whining and crying...........
...Your right they are whining and crying...........<br /><br />Australian Medical Association accuses The Australian of promoting smoking<br /><br /><br />Newspaper says plain packaging led to an increase in tobacco sales, but this claim has been attacked by a number of people<br /><br />The Australian Medical Association has accused Rupert Murdoch’s The Australian newspaper of promoting smoking and “big tobacco” by publishing a series of articles undermining the nation’s plain packaging legislation.<br /><br /><br />The Australian, owned by News Corp, has previously argued that plain packaging deprives tobacco firms of their intellectual property rights, and earlier this month went further and claimed that plain packaging had led to an increase in tobacco sales.<br /><br />“The AMA urges the government to restate its support for the plain packaging laws and tobacco control generally, and we urge the Australian and other media to stop giving Big Tobacco a free ride in promoting its killer products,” the AMA president, Associate Professor Brian Owler, said.<br /><br />The intervention of the peak medical body came after The Australian published another five articles on Wednesday critical of public health initiatives to decrease smoking rates, including plain packaging.<br /><br />The series of news reports and opinion pieces were in response to the ABC’s Media Watch program, which slammed The Australian’s earlier exclusive story claiming that there had been an increase in consumption as “garbage”.<br /><br />On 6 June The Australian ran a front-page story headlined “Labor's plain packaging fails as cigarette sales rise”.<br /><br />“Labor’s nanny state push to kill off the country’s addiction to cigarettes with plain packaging has backfired, with new sales figures showing tobacco consumption growing during the first full year of the new laws,” the newspaper reported.<br /><br />http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/18/australian-medical-association-accuses-the-australian-of-promoting-smokingAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-48157432395075517732014-06-18T15:42:40.220+01:002014-06-18T15:42:40.220+01:00Via DP
Claims plain packaging works go up in smo...Via DP<br /><br /><br />Claims plain packaging works go up in smoke <br /> <br />|<br /> The Australian |<br /> June 16, 2014 12:00AM <br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Print<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Save for later<br /> <br />50<br /> <br /><br /><br /><br />Judith Sloan<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Contributing Economics Editor<br /><br />Sydney<br /><br />http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/columnists/claims-plain-packaging-works-go-up-in-smoke/story-fnbkvnk7-1226955234066Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-18342474000548814312014-06-18T15:37:30.595+01:002014-06-18T15:37:30.595+01:00To bad there isn't an overlay graph of Blackma...To bad there isn't an overlay graph of Blackmarket sales to put up against that tax increase upsurge in lost sales..........for that period Im sure nobody quit they just used other avenues to get the product!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com