I'm just sayin....
Posted on 11/19/2019 6:21:44 PM PST by Olog-hai
Germany is the only country in the EU that still allows tobacco companies to advertise their products on billboards and in cinemas. Now, doctors are some politicians pushing to change this.
“The tedious and long-standing discussion about poster advertising [of smoking] is dismal,” Klaus Reinhardt, president of the German Medical Association, told Spiegel Online. “You can’t accommodate the industry here. Smoking is harmful, period,” said Reinhardt, who said that all tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, should fit under the ban.
Germany was one of the last EU countries to adopt a smoking ban in 2007, although rules are still relatively lax, with many pubs, restaurants and public places still allowing it within their premises.
Lighting up is still widespread throughout the country, with 18.6 percent of women, and 26.4 percent of men, over aged 15 stating that they are smokers, according to 2017 data from the Robert Koch Institute.
Fifteen years ago, the Bundestag made a commitment to the World Health Organization (WHO) to issue a “comprehensive ban on all forms of tobacco advertising” by 2010 at the latest. But so far their efforts have been in vain. …
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You know what else is dangerous?
Nazis.
And yet you can promote homosexuality all the ding dong day regardless of ill health effects.
The german smoking advertising is all pictures of lung cancer and things like that.
Hitler was such a rabid anti-smoker, he wouldn’t allow smoking in the Bunker, once Adolf killed himself, everyone in The Bunker lit up.
Hah!
I did not know this :D
If it is so bad, why not make it illegal? And what about alcohol? How many people does that kill a year through abuse and drunk driving? While you are at it, why not make obesity illegal too.
They are about 30 years late on this.
It would be much easier to make tobacco illegal than alcohol. All you need to make alcohol is a sugar or starch and yeast and water. You can’t grow tobacco like marijuana and just put it in the ground and forget about it until harvest time.
It would be much easier to make tobacco illegal than alcohol. All you need to make alcohol is a sugar or starch and yeast and water. You can’t grow tobacco like marijuana and just put it in the ground and forget about it until harvest time.
Would smokers go crazy and start shooting people?
When I was in a private Catholic girl's HS, our priest was also priest at the local TB Sanitarium. He took us all over there to see the exhibits...real lungs, some from smokers and some from non-smokers.
Extremely convincing. Smokers have dark gray or black lungs and the little air pocket collapse. Even when I did smoke, I didn't smoke very much.
I'm just sayin....
The Nazis themselves were anti-tobacco zealots.
“Would smokers go crazy and star shooting people?’’ More than likely. I’ve seen people trying to quit them stuff and they get down right mean.
My father back in Ireland had TB at the age of 19 and spent a year at a TB Sanitarium “coughing his way into eternity”.
His big complaint was no one in the family went to visit him.
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