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I wonder what the opinion of Tim Andrews (Should we legalise drugs?) is on the current drive in Australia to put tobacco firmly in the 'prohibited' camp, along with all the other substances that are proving to be so popular, despite their illegality?
I honestly believe that the more they try to restrict it, the more people will smoke, until we reach a point where, however heroically the likes of Chapman and his chums try to spin and lie, it will become blindingly obvious to even the terminally indoctrinated that the policies of TC have been a spectacular failure, and have achieved the reverse of what was intended. Indeed, the chart you put up here yesterday with regards youth smoking rates shows that it's started already.
I'm exercising my schadenfreude gland even now, in anticipation of the fun to come.
Ah! THAT Tim Andrews! Yes, now you remind me with the link, I remember. Sound chap. Got something between his ears.
I hope that wouldn't be true because we really enjoy them taking advantage, but I can understand the perception.
Fair points. I just know that if I was to be offered free food, drink and a lift there and back, I'd snap my employer's hand off (as I used to do when I worked for companies who ran to a perk like that in the 80s).
I used to when I was young as well. Now I'm more interested in getting home to my wife and doing my own thing. I might take work home but that's because I like fidgeting with tech, not because I want to bring the people I work with home as well.
So. Mr Fuddlecock, I hope that you also are willing to point out for your readers here that the standard error for 5 out of 10 data cells for this one statistic, that you quote as the sole source of your argument, was more than 50%. It there came with its own health warning from the Australian Bureau of Statistics that it was unreliable and "not for general use". What WAS reliable though and which I fail to mention was that in all of the other age groups there was a step drop in smoking in every age group except the over 70s shortly after the introduction of plain packaging in Australia.
Very interesting. Do you have a link for this differentiation between changes in individual years 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013? I'm obviously very interested in overall prevalence between Dec 2012 and the 12 months after. ;)
"I hope that you also are willing to point out for your readers here that the standard error for 5 out of 10 data cells for this one statistic, that you quote as the sole source of your argument, was more than 50%"
Your wish is my command. ;)
http://dickpuddlecote.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/whatever-you-do-dont-think-of-children.html
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-23/chapman-big-tobaccos-smoke-and-mirrors-wont-work-this-time/5613852?WT.mc_id=newsmail
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