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onehandle

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Tue Oct-13-09 12:04 AM
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MPs approve cigarette vending ban

Source: BBC

The removal of cigarettes from public display is a step closer after MPs said vending machines should be banned and shops should keep stocks out of sight.

MPs supported a backbench amendment to outlaw cigarette vending machines in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Scotland has its own separate bill.

The vending machine amendment to the government's Health Bill was passed by the Commons without going to a vote. The bill passed its third reading and will now go before the House of Lords.

The vending machine ban was proposed by the former Labour minister Ian McCartney, who said it would "change history". Mr McCartney said vending machines gave young children access to cigarettes and condemned them as an "outrageous loophole in our country's safeguards" against tobacco.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8303975.stm

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tomm2thumbs

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Tue Oct-13-09 12:11 AM
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1. I remember the old pull-the-knob kind - just like getting a Hershey bar, but a pack of cigs

they were in every lobby of every hotel restaurant from here to there - and poof - they went away. Too easy for kids.

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DesertFlower

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Tue Oct-13-09 12:17 AM
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2. i remember that too.

Edited on Tue Oct-13-09 12:18 AM by DesertFlower

i stopped smoking 26 years ago after 30 years of a terrible addiction.

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DeSwiss

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Tue Oct-13-09 12:24 AM
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3. Memory Lane.....

- I remember them too. But now I'm 9 months smoke-free.

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imdjh

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Tue Oct-13-09 12:32 AM
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4. Wow, I can smell that machine from here.

something like 6 weeks smoke free here.

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DesertFlower

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Tue Oct-13-09 01:27 AM
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7. hang in there. you can do it. nt

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tomm2thumbs

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Tue Oct-13-09 02:05 AM
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8. just don't give up caffeine at the same time - too much!! Hang on and congrats!!

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DesertFlower

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Tue Oct-13-09 01:26 AM
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6. congratulations. nt

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tomm2thumbs

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Tue Oct-13-09 02:13 AM
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9. omg - those plastic handles with the starbursty pattern

Edited on Tue Oct-13-09 02:14 AM by tomm2thumbs

and the hard-to-pull-and-not-slip-your-hands shape... maybe that was considered baby-proofing at the time, but I got pinched more than a couple times by those snapping back. Thanks for digging that picture up.

Congratulations on the months of clarity - a big hump and a mere 3 more for a yearbie! Much good look and supportive energies your way.

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obliviously

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Tue Oct-13-09 12:36 AM
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5. Someday we will be sorry

we have eliminated the Darwin factor! We will be up to our asses with stupid people that can find no way to dispatch themselves.

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PassingFair

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Tue Oct-13-09 06:32 AM
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12. Right....because all people who smoke are idiots.

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obliviously

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Tue Oct-13-09 04:12 PM
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13. We know better now!

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proteus_lives

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Tue Oct-13-09 03:46 AM
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10. I used those when I visited the UK.

I'm glad I went there before they started the worst of all this nanny-state bullshit.

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FunkyLeprechaun

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Tue Oct-13-09 06:24 AM
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11. it really isn't too bad

However the vending machine is available at the pubs I go to. I think it provides too easy of an access to the addicts at my pub.

When I worked there it was such a pain in the ass picking up all the cigarette butts off the lawn, the smokers have no respect of the pub's grounds.

Thank goodness that's passed!

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