[H2]Ban sale of tobacco in pharmacies, NDP urges[/H2] [DIV id=author]
[DIV id=article style="FONT-SIZE: 100%"][!-- Summary --] [!-- dateline --]Victoria[!-- /dateline --] -- The NDP has introduced a private member's bill to ban tobacco sales in pharmacies.
Opposition health critic David Cubberley said yesterday that the aim is to make it tougher for young people to buy tobacco. "It's something that pharmacists are asking for and have been for a long time," he said. "They don't believe they should be vending tobacco on the same premises that they're selling things that contribute to health."
[!-- /Summary --] Health Minister George Abbott said Mr. Cubberley's bill is a worthy idea but disagrees that it's universally supported by pharmacists. CP
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Why hasn't any blue state come up with something like this? In fact I would go one step further banning alcohol too. But Wal-Mart, Walgreens, and supermakets with pharmacies have too many lobbyists to shoot something like this down.
I mean its hypocritical for pharmacies to be handing out drugs that can save your life and right next to the medicine isle is beer and behind the cashier tobacco.
Sportsdude......I actually thought they did that a LONG time ago. This is a NEW concept ???? None of the pharmacies in my area sell cigarettes and haven't for a few years.
London Drugs makes a bundle off tobacco. Wouldn't be so bad if people grew their own, & didn't salt it with chemicals etc.
apparently its not wide spread maybe your county P.C. or town has an ordinance against the sale of tobacco in pharmacies.
Sportsdude....what the H...E....double hockey sticks have you done with your avatar. I almost need another computer to view it.
was fooling around. A picture of trudeau that was a 'tad' too big.
ROFL......had a few issues with my avatar this morn too. When it was little, she was cute and 'pixie-ish'....but when she was large, she looked a little too close to trampy....LOL
The amazing TehBorken fixed it up good.
I actually messaged him about it because this canadiens forum I go to recently got upgraded where on of the options was auto fit.
I love the warnings on Canadian cigarette packs. They take up the top half and are a serious buzzkill.
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OMG....are Export A's still around ???? My ex used to smoke those many (many) years ago. Haven't heard about those for years. Now there's a blast from the past...lol
Export A's are still around these parts that's for sure. I used to smoke 'em too. Back in the early 90's that was a definite mark of cool. Kinda like American Spirits are now, hipster smokes.
I don't smoke and never had but for some reason everyone does in saint louis but when I went to seattle I didn't see anybody light it up except for one girl on the school campus.
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Ban sale of tobacco in pharmacies, NDP urges[/font]
[span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 127);"]It works for me![/span]
atleast somebody in north america is progressive thinking. Missouri's going backwards, along with the midwest in general.
She just looks like she's so happy. Or ready. Or something. (//forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/13.gif) lol
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all I see is red X's.
Sportsdude wrote:
[div style="font-style: italic;"]all I see is red X's.[/div]
Can you see it now?
oh my, I love P.C.'s avatar! (bowing)
But in all seriousness I say tehborken is trying to hijack my thread on cigs in pharmacies!(//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Other/21.gif)
Sportsdude wrote:
But in all seriousness I say tehborken is trying to hijack my thread on cigs in pharmacies!
Honestly now- would you rather talk about cigs or feast your eyes on the Beautiful Blue Babe with the inviting smile?
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oh god that pic is very seductive. hypnotic for sure.
[img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/liebe/g038.gif" border=0] I like to think of her as a clone of my younger years.....lol
Except, I'm not brunette, and I have taken up shaving my feet and my hands.
P.C. a blonde? meow!(//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/1.gif)
LOL sporstdude....yes, P.C. is a blonde.....since I was a young kitten.[img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/more/bigs/c018.gif" border=0]
I had a girlfriend from england who was a blonde.
I saw something over on DV that would fit into this thread, but TehBorken would probably kill it because it was a very graphic pic of some kind of mouth cancer or something. Hideous.