tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post1792435081714428039..comments2024-01-01T16:01:35.711+00:00Comments on Dick Puddlecote: ++Breaking News++ Tobacco Control Discover That Consumers React To Price Increases!Dick Puddlecotehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-15537688564844949472013-04-20T01:51:46.377+01:002013-04-20T01:51:46.377+01:00Yes they do and huge amounts of grant money. Publi...Yes they do and huge amounts of grant money. Public health has become an industry and in doing so has solved an unemployment crisis amongst failed medics and people with psychology degrees. Public health likes people without scruples who are quite happy to make things up for money. Such people are also quite useful to universities who these days are more interested in funding potential than academic excellence. Or even academic mediocrity now I come to think about it.Ivan Dnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-9586059388620791882013-04-19T19:29:31.865+01:002013-04-19T19:29:31.865+01:00Uruguay? damn... and there was me thinking el pres...Uruguay? damn... and there was me thinking el presidente was a sound old cove trundling around on his beat up old tractor puffing on a reefer muttering about the raddled old hag who'd just come to visit....moonrakinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-85636264845751506522013-04-19T18:45:46.596+01:002013-04-19T18:45:46.596+01:00Ah, but you're a person acting rationally and ...Ah, but you're a person acting rationally and as nature intended. As such, you don't fit in with tobacco control's self-delusional view of the world. ;)Dick_Puddlecotenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-40224402544520181662013-04-19T18:44:34.289+01:002013-04-19T18:44:34.289+01:00Minimum priced tobacco has already been mooted as ...Minimum priced tobacco has already been mooted as a future policy (once they get plain packs and smoking in cars, presumably). But next up might be restrictions on the numbers of lines allowed to be sold by each tobacco company, this is happening in Uruguay IIRC. <br /><br />Just one salami slice after another. Yet we're expected to believe tobacco controllers have a set goal and that it will never change. See <a href="https://twitter.com/Dick_Puddlecote/status/324994530506063872" rel="nofollow">here for an example</a>.Dick_Puddlecotenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-43976098758951858752013-04-19T18:41:07.509+01:002013-04-19T18:41:07.509+01:00It looks and smells like the same kind of stat-smu...It looks and smells like the same kind of stat-smudging as usual. I know that Winston and Mayfair, for example, have risen by exactly the costs added at the past two budgets. To the penny.Dick_Puddlecotenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-10053763751182899532013-04-19T16:04:10.383+01:002013-04-19T16:04:10.383+01:00Not news to me...that's why I smoke Carlton in...Not news to me...that's why I smoke Carlton instead of Marlboro (when White Van Man's not around).<br />Smoke a premium brand that I enjoy, or one that I enjoy less (but a smoke's still a smoke, in the end), and walk out of the shop with a couple of extra quid in my pocket.<br />Definitely not rocket science...Rob Fnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-54816252898928346892013-04-19T13:47:55.870+01:002013-04-19T13:47:55.870+01:00Minimum price tobacco surely now ...
In the meant...Minimum price tobacco surely now ...<br /><br />In the meantime - why can't the moo be prosecuted for willfully misrepresenting / manipulating health statistics ?<br /><br />http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10001149/Scientist-jailed-for-faking-medicine-test-results.htmlmoonrakinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-6309027492927752062013-04-19T13:36:17.923+01:002013-04-19T13:36:17.923+01:00In this one:
http://www.health24.com/Lifestyle/St...In this one:<br /><br />http://www.health24.com/Lifestyle/Stop-smoking/News/Do-cigarette-companies-use-tax-hikes-in-strategy-20130419<br /><br />Gissa Gilmore says that tobacco companies add the tax hikes onto higher priced fags leaving the lower priced fags even cheaper in the hope that people will start on cheap fags and move up to premium brands.<br /><br />This, in her words, makes it hard to price the young and the poor out of the market.<br /><br />""and by keeping the young and poor in the market - instead of letting the taxes price them out.""Bucko TheMoosenoreply@blogger.com