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BRITAIN WILL BECOME the first European Union nation to introduce plain packaging on cigarette packets after members of the House of Lords rubber-stamped a new law today.
Peers agreed the change without a vote after MPs in the House of Commons overwhelmingly approved the move last week, despite fierce opposition from the tobacco industry.
The law will come into effect in May 2016 – a year before similar legislation passed in Ireland last month is fully implemented, and four years after Australia made the change.
Smoking rates have fallen in Australia since then, although tobacco companies have blamed the decline on tax hikes.
Deborah Arnott, chief executive of health charity Action on Smoking and Health (Ash), said the vote was a “decisive moment” in the battle to reduce the impact of smoking.
“Today we should remember the millions of people who have died too young from diseases caused by smoking, and the families and friends they left behind,” she said.
“This misery must not be inherited by our children.”
Penny Woods, chief executive of the British Lung Foundation, said it was “an immense triumph”.
The new packages in Britain will be monochrome with the brand name written in plain type next to warnings about the dangers of smoking, according to the plans.
Darker colours such as olive green are proposed, as they are believed to represent danger.
The tobacco industry and pro-tobacco campaigners have said the new law was a sign of government overreach, with the Tobacco Manufacturer’s Association saying there was a “complete lack of evidence that the policy will work”.
Ireland had the distinction of becoming the first country in Europe to pass plain pack laws, at the start of the month.
Children’s Minister James Reilly, who has championed the initiative since he was the Minister for Health, has indicated that plain packs will be in the shops by May 2017.
- © AFP, 2015 with reporting by Daragh Brophy.
Meanwhile two tayto vans seen speeding into rear of rte studios!
Destroyed in a controlled manner? Was fire involved? Hope no one inhaled
So rte have used our licence money to buy drugs….now I have seen it all
Dobbo was seen last night begging for skins outside the chipper in Donnybrook…
Typical RTE… taxpayers’ money going up in smoke
Seen this last night, very good tutorial.
How much did he pay online ? We need to know the ins and out’s of this.Will this online system put local dealers out of business. Look, lets face it , drugs being delivered to RTE staff is hardly a new development. Besides the whole world is aware of Silk Road ect.I don’t really see what a report on RTE is going to achieve other than give a tutorial on how to shop online.
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Eammon Dunphy snorted it.
That’s showbiz baby!!
”You just cant get good cocaine in this town”
My advise would have been to split it between Enda and Joan and chill them the feck out!!
Who needs Tor when you can just nip down to O’Connell Street any time of the day? My friendly face slashed drug dealer is always happy to see me. Not a Guard to be seen for miles….
Buying hash off a lad on O’Connell street? That’s as bad as buying steak from Tesco’s.
You mean horse from tesco.
Surely you mean horse.
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You need to get your gritty little paws on some bitcoin first..
https://bitcoin.org/ sorts those gritty little paws out ;-)
Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t it the “deep web” and not the “dark net.” I thought the dark net was a group of computers on a private connection where as the deep net is for sites such as the one shown which will not come up through ordinary search engines.
Thats why you really shouldn’t put too much faith in RTE reports on this kinda thing.
It’s the same thing. You need TOR to access dark net. To access a site on the dark net the address should end with .onion
Must end .onion
“Not that we’d ever suspected them anything — an RTÉ spokesperson confirmed this afternoon that the product was destroyed in a controlled manner, in keeping with programme guidelines.”
Yeah Cocaine is more their thing!
buying a bit of hash from overseas by post via tor is that really practical?
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I’d say most of the researchers smoked it because of all the sh 1 t on TV !
:) destroyed in a series of small fires
It really shows how out of date our drug laws are. We cannot hold back the tide when you can get it delivered to your door as easy as that. Enforcing drug laws is impossible and a new approach is required to better our society.
I have not had some brown for years! Would love one for old times sake. Nothing but weed around now. Thanks RTE, …. now where did you buy this?
I’m hungry. I don’t know why.
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GIVE ME BACK MY STUFF I KNOW I O YOU 10 EURO RTE YOUR MY MAIN DEALER COME ON HAND IT UP
Come to think of it I did see a lot of people in fancy suits and dresses heading towards the IFSC last night.
could RTE pass on the contact ?
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