By: bahamian3002
2/07/2009
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I still can not believe the irresponsible remark from a health minister making light of smoking. Honestly.
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Don't be an idiot veg, Abbott made it very clear he hates smoking, but he is concerned about govt regulating every facet of life... |
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By: bahamian3002
2/07/2009
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Could always cut the dole pool by 50% and rid the system of all the bludgers.
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Most dole bludgers, smoke, drink and take drugs, imagine the cost to the public purse, at least if bludgers were forced to work they would be healthier! |
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By: buzzanddidj
2/07/2009
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ABC Radio - AM
Thursday, July 2, 2009
TONY ABBOTT: One cigarette I am told does you damage but it does you so little damage. It is only when you start smoking a lot of cigarettes for a long time that it starts doing very serious damage. So being heard hearted to your kids, not encouraging them to be their best, I think are probably much more serious parental crimes and so I personally would not get hung up on something, in my view, as trivial as smoking while the kids are in the car.
JENNIFER MACEY: Long time antismoking campaigner Professor Mike Daube from Curtin University disagrees.
MIKE DAUBE: We found that a child in a car exposed to two cigarettes was getting 70 times the level of toxic exposures they would be getting that are reckoned to be dangerous by the US EPA (Environmental Protection Agency). So there is very major, clear implications for the health of children, asthmatic children, children with other respiratory symptoms and smoking in cars around kids is simply something that shouldn't happen.
JENNIFER MACEY: And he says it's irresponsible to rely on just hoping that people won't smoke in front of their children.
MIKE DAUBE: We also know this is an area where education programs haven't worked. They work with a lot of people but there are some people who simply ignore the education programs and who drive around smoking in cars around kids.
Legislation will work. It is not a matter of policing it to the death. It is not a matter of police being taken away from crime and violence and so on. This will be policed opportunistically. It is just protecting the health of kids.
http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2009/s2614461.htm
Have ANY members of the party made a statement of disagreement, as yet ?
Or is it official Liberal Party policy that passive smoke to children is harmless ?
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By: vegitamite97
3/07/2009
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Can't believe this is the only reported backlash to Abbotts 'trivialising' comments
Hames defends 'nanny' smoking laws
Posted 5 hours 44 minutes ago
Updated 5 hours 45 minutes ago
Western Australia's Health Minister ha *** back at federal MP Tony Abbott over his criticism of laws banning smoking in cars with children.
Earlier this week, the former federal health minister labelled it a 'trivial' issue and said it amounted to 'nanny state politics'. |
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By: buzzanddidj
3/07/2009
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Western Australia's Health Minister hit back at federal MP Tony Abbott over his criticism of laws banning smoking in cars with children.
Earlier this week, the former federal health minister labelled it a 'trivial' issue and said it amounted to 'nanny state politics'.
It comes as State Parliament considers new laws, which include a ban on smoking in cars carrying children.
Kim Hames has defended the move, saying tough laws are needed.
"I guess that makes me a nanny, since it was me that was introducing the legislation in the first place," he said.
"Children are particularly susceptible to the effect of smoking, and in cars they can't get away."
Smoking has been banned in cars with children in several other states, including NSW where a $250 on-the-spot fine exists.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/07/03/2616 154.htm?site=news
So it seems the 'passive smoke is harmless to children' is Federal Liberal Party policy ONLY ?
I don't think any State branches have tried to block this legislation ?
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By: larkhill50
4/07/2009
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I think are probably much more serious parental crimes and so I personally would not get hung up on something, in my view, as trivial as smoking while the kids are in the car.
-Abbott
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Yes Tony, just as murder is a more serious crime than robbery with violence. Does that make robbery with violence trivial?
Or is it only trivial in fed-lib land? |
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