THREE YR OLD TAUGHT TO SMOKE BY MOTHER

Believe it or not...

A welsh mother has narrowly escaped jail for child abuse after she was caught teaching her 3 yr old to smoke.

We dont like tobacco, we want to see tobacco displays banned - its a childrens health issue - full stop.

A BLOODY GREAT IDEA

This will scare the beejeesus out of the Tobacco companies. We hate tobacco. It is a health issue that impacts on our kids - so this is the best news we have seen for ages. This story in the Herald -Well done Saudi Arabia

GREAT DECISION ON TOBACCO DISPLAYS

Business day has a nice round up on the Health select committee deciding to recommend the banning of tobacco displays .

ROARPRAWN is anti tobacco and this issue is about the impact tobacco has on kids.
Shame on the Nats - they reckon they need more evidence - wrong - the evidence presented was damning.



This from Business Day

"A Parliamentary committee says the Government should ban tobacco and cigarette displays in shops.

The Health Committee made the recommendation after considering a petition signed by more than 20,000 people in support of the ban.

The National Party, in a minority view, said there needed to be more evidence before implementing a ban.

There was already a ban on advertising tobacco products but they could still be displayed in shops.

The Health Ministry said there were over 10,000 retail outlets selling tobacco products, usually displayed in large highly visible units.

The New Zealand Association of Convenience Stores said tobacco products accounted for about 37 percent of members' annual sales.

The association said financial incentives offered to retailers by tobacco companies were confidential.

The ministry is looking at whether such arrangements are allowed, under smokefree legislation."

And this from the TVNZ Sunday programme - Kids are attracted by the displays in shops.

This legislation still allows tobacco to be sold - it just doesnt allow it to be displayed..

Killer Tobacco companies get a shake up from the commerce commission

'Mild' labels to be removed from tobacco


The tobacco industry has agreed to remove the words light and mild from cigarette packets after being warned about the use of the terms.
The Commerce Commission warned tobacco companies the use of the terms light and mild risked breaching the Fair Trading Act.
The commission investigated the labelling after the Smokefree Coalition lodged a complaint in July 2006.
Smokefree Coalition chairwoman Jane Patterson said she was disappointed the companies only received a warning.
"The tobacco industry has a long history of lying. In this latest example, they are misleading smokers by suggesting light and mild cigarettes have health benefits over regular or higher yield tobacco products.
"As the Commerce Commission decision points out, light and mild tobacco is likely to be just as deadly as regular tobacco."
The Ministry of Health welcomed the Commerce Commission warning.
Senior analyst of tobacco control Brendan Baker said the terms were used to promote a product which kills around 5000 New Zealanders a year.
"Ultimately, the message for smokers and those who care about them remains the same: all cigarettes are harmful, be they light or mild, tailor-made or rollies."
New Zealand research on several brands of loose tobacco showed tobacco labelled mild was just as harmful as regular tobacco, he said.
Tobacco companies had agreed to remove the terms from their New Zealand products, Mr Baker said.
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Smoke fish not people

Its a well known fact I can catch, fillet and smoke my own fish and serve up a pretty good scoff.

- what is not so well known is the fact that I am very anti human smoking - have been for years.

I am saddened, that after years of battling nicotine addiction, my father will sooner or later succumb to some sort of cancer or condition related to his addiction.

So as I'm working in the health sector at the moment, I have had the chance to be a bit of an advocate for the anti tobacco cause.

Currently this government is looking at banning tobacco displays - something I'm keen to see no matter who's at the helm - its not a nanny state issue - its about kids health.

I don't see much use in chucking millions at people like my father but I do see real sense in doing every bloody thing we can to prevent our kids taking up this addiction.

Any way - I put the seed of an idea to the SUNDAY current affairs programme -

They screened part one - a good piece last week on Scottish entrepreneur Duncan Bannatyne's story on what the devious shits BAT ( British American tobacco ) were up to in Nigeria.. It is a programme well worth watching. Here is a copy of the video - take a look. Bannatyne is great eye candy - and came to prominence on the BBC's Dragons den series.

Nothing like exposing a company for its duplicity especially if you are already a successful rich bastard and he showed that BAT's actions in Africa are in contravention of its own corporate responsibility mantra of do no harm to kids.

I don't hate all big companies but i don't like devious duplicitous ones that kill kids slowly.

Tonight Sunday will be screening a piece on what is happening here in New Zealand.


So you see Busted Blonde is NOT a single issue chick!

There is more to life than prawns and Winston, fishing, farming, sex, kids, bluff oysters, politics etc....


So watch the programme if you have time - and tell me your thoughts


Sunday TV1 7.30..


cheers BB