Yeah, the 40, usually during the weekend, drinking, parties and all that.
Ah, those were the times.
Smoking Ban at Thai Airports
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In NZ, lots of smokers are now using them vape pipe things, not by choice, but nobody is gonna pay $32 NZ for a pack of 20. A 50 gram pouch of loose tobacco Drum is $99.10 cents. Massive Govt. taxes. Its good.
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Ouch, costly. I remember buying a pack of Marlboro lights for a few dollars in the early 90's.
But here, much cheaper.
But here, much cheaper.
Where is here newnewnewbie? I remember 2003 Sihanoukville buying a big bottle of local whisky, a pack of Ara and a lighter,..and got 500 riel change from $1.00. . the good ole days~ and the orange pills WY were only a dollarnewnewnewbie wrote:Ouch, costly. I remember buying a pack of Marlboro lights for a few dollars in the early 90's.
But here, much cheaper.
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'Here' I guess is Asia, where taxes are lower on everything in general.
Including Phnom Penh, where my family currently lives.
But I would not mind finding a place with cleaner air, actually.
Smoker or non-smoker, it's heavy on your lungs around these parts.
Including Phnom Penh, where my family currently lives.
But I would not mind finding a place with cleaner air, actually.
Smoker or non-smoker, it's heavy on your lungs around these parts.
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First they came for the smokers...Jep wrote: Massive Govt. taxes. Its good.
The EAT-Lancet Commission has made no secret of its intention to force a near-vegan diet on the world’s population through the use of taxes, bans and regulation.
https://health.spectator.co.uk/tax-ban- ... explained/Its new dietary guidelines, supposedly designed to optimise health and sustainability, are radical to say the least. Under their plan, you would be limited to just seven grams of pork a day – about a tenth of a sausage. The beef allocation is the same. Your chicken ration is somewhat more generous at 29 grams, but it still only amounts to one and a half nuggets. You can have fish, but only a quarter of a fillet a day, and you would be limited to 50 grams of potatoes, the equivalent of a quarter of a baked spud. Egg consumption is capped at one and half per week, so half a dozen should last you a month.
To comply with these extraordinary demands, the UK would all have to cut meat consumption by 80 per cent and massively increase its consumption of beans, lentils, soy and nuts. This is not going to happen voluntarily and the committee knows it. It calls on politicians to do more ‘choice editing’ (ie. banning things).
The authors want more taxes on food, more advertising restrictions and the ‘banning and pariah status of key products’ (which ‘key products’? Fizzy drinks? Chips?). They want local authorities to ban new takeaway food outlets ‘in low-income areas’ (but apparently not in high income areas) even though they admit that the evidence that ‘zoning regulations could increase healthy food consumption or reduce BMI [body mass index] is scarce’ (indeed it is).
They state their preferred option bluntly: ‘restrict choice’ or, better still, ‘eliminate choice’.
https://velvetgloveironfist.blogspot.com/2019/“This is the final vindication for those us who have warned about the slippery slope of regulation. Nanny state zealots are no longer hiding their intention to use the anti-tobacco blueprint to control other areas of our lives. They are openly contemptuous of freedom of choice and make no secret of their desire to bypass democracy and use unaccountable global institutions to further their agenda.
“If such authoritarian regulations come to pass, a thriving and competitive food market which responds to consumer demand will be replaced by a “state anchored approach” in which bureaucrats and activists decide what the public is allowed to eat. The idea of taxpayers being forced to contribute to a $1 billion slush fund for them to lobby for such a future is nauseating.”
I really really like everything this urinal mint girl writes and cites.Hot_Pink_Urinal_Mint wrote:First they came for the smokers...Jep wrote: Massive Govt. taxes. Its good.
The EAT-Lancet Commission has made no secret of its intention to force a near-vegan diet on the world’s population through the use of taxes, bans and regulation.
https://health.spectator.co.uk/tax-ban- ... explained/Its new dietary guidelines, supposedly designed to optimise health and sustainability, are radical to say the least. Under their plan, you would be limited to just seven grams of pork a day – about a tenth of a sausage. The beef allocation is the same. Your chicken ration is somewhat more generous at 29 grams, but it still only amounts to one and a half nuggets. You can have fish, but only a quarter of a fillet a day, and you would be limited to 50 grams of potatoes, the equivalent of a quarter of a baked spud. Egg consumption is capped at one and half per week, so half a dozen should last you a month.
To comply with these extraordinary demands, the UK would all have to cut meat consumption by 80 per cent and massively increase its consumption of beans, lentils, soy and nuts. This is not going to happen voluntarily and the committee knows it. It calls on politicians to do more ‘choice editing’ (ie. banning things).
The authors want more taxes on food, more advertising restrictions and the ‘banning and pariah status of key products’ (which ‘key products’? Fizzy drinks? Chips?). They want local authorities to ban new takeaway food outlets ‘in low-income areas’ (but apparently not in high income areas) even though they admit that the evidence that ‘zoning regulations could increase healthy food consumption or reduce BMI [body mass index] is scarce’ (indeed it is).
They state their preferred option bluntly: ‘restrict choice’ or, better still, ‘eliminate choice’.
https://velvetgloveironfist.blogspot.com/2019/“This is the final vindication for those us who have warned about the slippery slope of regulation. Nanny state zealots are no longer hiding their intention to use the anti-tobacco blueprint to control other areas of our lives. They are openly contemptuous of freedom of choice and make no secret of their desire to bypass democracy and use unaccountable global institutions to further their agenda.
“If such authoritarian regulations come to pass, a thriving and competitive food market which responds to consumer demand will be replaced by a “state anchored approach” in which bureaucrats and activists decide what the public is allowed to eat. The idea of taxpayers being forced to contribute to a $1 billion slush fund for them to lobby for such a future is nauseating.”
How long before we can multiply replicate her brain and stick it in the cortex of the standard pleasure model from Blade Runner?
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You can still get a pack of Ara and a lighter and get 1500 riel change from a dollar. I don't know why anyone would want to buy it, but I believe a bottle of "Super Whiskey" is only about 2500 riel. The couple of dimes extra is the least of your worries if you drink that stuff.Jep wrote: I remember 2003 Sihanoukville buying a big bottle of local whisky, a pack of Ara and a lighter,..and got 500 riel change from $1.00. . the good ole days~
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
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