• OnPoint: Sock-Puppeting Big Tobacco to…, in reply to Danielle, 12:24 Sep 7, 2011

  I'm the apparently rare non-smoker who really doesn't give much of a shit about open-air smoking

  I don't either, at that practical day-to-day level. It's just not where the harms or opportunities that motivate any public intervention lie. George explained the linkages quite adequately.

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• OnPoint: Sock-Puppeting Big Tobacco to…, in reply to BenWilson, 12:21 Sep 7, 2011

  I'm not, however, convinced about the harms of this inflicted out of doors

  What would it take to convince you? You seem to be simply ignoring well-established public health policy about tobacco and addiction.

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• Hard News: Te Qaeda and the God Squad, in reply to DCBCauchi, 11:16 Sep 7, 2011

  Interesting.

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• Up Front: One, in reply to Jolisa, 11:14 Sep 7, 2011

  But apparently somebody did!

  classic :)

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• Hard News: Te Qaeda and the God Squad, in reply to DCBCauchi, 11:12 Sep 7, 2011

  I have a friend who is into these kind of mock battle games

  I've never heard of LARPers using explosives. Expensive swords and armour, yes.

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• OnPoint: Sock-Puppeting Big Tobacco to…, in reply to BenWilson, 11:04 Sep 7, 2011

  If you think I said that, then you're not paying attention

  I must have misunderstood this, for one:

  I also think the aim of the taxes on smoking are simply sin-taxes, tickling an urge in puritans that I find quite unpleasant myself.

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• OnPoint: Sock-Puppeting Big Tobacco to…, in reply to Kyle Matthews, 10:59 Sep 7, 2011

  Fucking Big Cleaners

  great branding opportunity

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• OnPoint: Sock-Puppeting Big Tobacco to…, in reply to BenWilson, 10:59 Sep 7, 2011

  if I get a sense that this debate is heading in a direction of attempting to understand each other

  I'd like to understand how you see the relationship between addiction and personal choice.

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• Hard News: Te Qaeda and the God Squad, in reply to Russell Brown, 10:52 Sep 7, 2011

  imagine the trick would be knowing the difference

  And I'd rather they err on the side of caution when it's about things that can kill people.

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• Hard News: Te Qaeda and the God Squad, in reply to DCBCauchi, 10:52 Sep 7, 2011

  military paraphernalia collector

  I understand uniforms and even old weapons, but do they usually collect explosives as well?

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