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High-end designer brand Yves Saint Laurent (YSL) claims smoking is backin fashion for women of substance and class. What nonsense! Surely we not that gullible, are we?

With tobacco ads banned in Australia, the US and Europe, it Asian and Russian ladies who are being asked to leave their common sense at the front door Adidas Nitrocharge Shoes.

No mention of the risks that include the dreaded word, YSL simply presents a picture of a model with a butt ugly fag near her lips and smoke enveloping her mouth. Let hope no-one is attracted to this revolting image that reeks of desperation on the part of the fashion label.

Smoking kills. Photo: Lanier67

The cigarette packaging is just as remiss as the ad in deliberately avoiding showing any health warnings and off-putting photos of cancer. Instead, it reminiscent of what you would see when shopping for fine French perfume.

While Yves Saint Laurent is spinning its socially irresponsible message abroad without consequences, at least in this country we have taken steps to try to reduce the level of smoking, but clearly we haven gone far enough.

Now anti-tobacco campaigners are pushing for smokers to be by the government Nike Hypervenom Phantom Shoes For Sale. Good idea? Maybe. I say give anything reasonable a go if it prevents just one person succumbing to this atrocious addiction. But Health Minister Nicola Roxon has quickly dismissed the notion. Why?

If cigarettes were a food, there no doubt they would be banned because of all the chemical nasties in them. So why should sticks be treated any differently? After all, the smoke that comes from them is ingested.

The evidence is overwhelming. It clearly a case of puff away at your peril. More than 15,000 Australians die of smoking-related diseases every year and tobacco costs the country upwards of $30 billion annually in healthcare and lost productivity.

You think the Health Minister would act on that. After all, she stands behind the cigarette advertising ban that prevents companies like YSL trying to wave their poisonous wands in Australia.

But I put it to you, Ms Roxon, if you were really serious about cutting the rate of smoking currently 17% of the population then you would take a particularly bold step (such as cigarette licencing) that could all but eliminate the habit.

While I do not disagree with the fact that smoking is indeed extremely harmful both to smokers as well as to the people around them, I echo Roxon sentiments to dismiss smoking licenses Discount F50 Soccer Sale Online. First of all, think of all the people who would be flouting that law. A license solely to smoke? Seems a little drastic, doesn it? Would this mean that there will be policemen dispatched to patrol the streets keeping an eye out for people smoking without licenses? Policemen that could be spending their time on more important and pressing cases?

Sure, the implementation of this law would cement the fact that Australia is clamping down on cigarette smoking, but ultimately, would it be feasible?

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