So, anyone got a loose $45,000 (Oz) laying around?

[DaveJ]

Because this.

But especially this little bit:

Fines for being caught with liquid nicotine range from $1,500 to $7,773 Australian dollars in all parts of the country except for West Australia (*), where vapers face a fine of $45,000 Australian dollars

Yet that same liquid nic is in the Quickmist spray and is freely available, uncontrolled, from supermarket shelves. So, in theory, I could, if I was so inclined, buy a Quickmist spray packet, upend the contents into my RTA and vape that. Wonder what the politicians and lawmakers would make of that? (NOT that I'd recommend such action since Quickmist contains "extras" I'd rather not be inhaling.)

There's OUR Cancer Council, Therapeutic Goods Admin, Public Health and politicians for you. Blithering idiots, the lot of 'em.


* Guess where I live? Fortunately, the Law Enforcers seem completely uninterested in policing these rules. I'm not aware of any regular user being charged with this offense. People who supply, though, is a different story and I do think some have faced courts for that particular offense.



*sigh* - just a bit of a rant is all. Carry on!

[Bobsbeer]

Makes you wonder that if the Poms hadn't said it then the politicians may have taken more heed, but there are total dicks everywhere, I'm sorry that most seem to have ended up as Australian politicians.

[Postmodern Smoking]

Mar 1, 2018 6:36:16 GMT DaveJ said:

....

*sigh* - just a bit of a rant is all. Carry on!

Well worthy of a rant!!!

[yourgurnard]

$45,000 AUS?.......That's about a £tenner ain't it?...
Seriously tho', as Postmodern Smoking said above; well worthy of a rant!
Are all the Nazi Rulers politicians Directors of Cig. Companies?........

[prr]

Just goes to show that a brain is an optional extra in an Aussie politician

[DaveJ]

Mar 1, 2018 14:25:39 GMT yourgurnard said:

$45,000 AUS?.......That's about a £tenner ain't it?...
...

hehe - yeah, good point.

But even that "English Tenner" would buy me a whole bunch of misc vaping shiny objects, wouldn't it?

Mar 1, 2018 16:02:48 GMT prr said:

Just goes to show that a brain is an optional extra in an Aussie politician

Ummm .... I don't think Aussie Politicians are the only ones suffering with that problem.



I do think the crazy strong ANTZ got their grounding shaping "community attitudes" very early on in Oz. Way back in the '70s I remember the "Buga-up" crowd www.bugaup.org/ and their campaigns against Smoking/Tobacco (S. Chimpie's University class mates - yep, that's where he got his start) gaining traction. Theirs and others long campaigns have succeed - and it's now very difficult to overturn their years of work.

That, and that Vapers are only a very small percentage of voters (way less than 10%) so there's really nothing in it for the Politicians. That's without considering who has the big money to splash around .....


*sigh*