With the anti-smoking lobby’s jumping for joy over their recent victories in the smoking industry and the failure that will be the plain packaging, a “voluntary industry scheme” by the Alcohol industry will from now on put warning labels on their products.
What company in their right mind would try to actively discourage you from consuming their product? They’re trying to make people drink healthier? That’s what it’s being spun as it’s not in any way trying to reduce the amount of alcohol consumed in this country because that would be impossible. If anything, it will encourage younger people to drink.
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The keyword that keeps hitting me in the face is “voluntary”. I mean who is sucking whose dick here? What possible motives would the alcohol industry in Australia have behind such a venture, because the labels will only affect local beers, so your binge of Coronas with lemon at the end of the month will be untouched. It’s interesting to note also that when it comes to the topic of smoking, there have been no studies proving that warning labels actually stop people from doing it. In fact, it has encouraged cheaper, more toxic cigarette imports to be sold in the country because it’s easier to produce the plain packaging. According to a study released by Deloitte, 1 in 12 cigarettes is a cheap import and isn’t subject to the strict guidelines that we have here. When it comes to the warning label on alcohol itself, what person would even read it? And why? It can’t possibly be targeted at adults because it won’t stop us from drinking and it can’t be targeted at children because they don’t read anything! It’s failure in its most pure form.
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Perhaps the dictatorship that runs this country is to blame. Anti-smoking lobbies “pressured” the government into the new cigarette laws, but who’s to say that it wasn’t a push from some fascist Nazi? What if this push is being backed by some power behind the curtain? There’s already a filter in place on our internet that stops us viewing whatever websites the government CHOOSES and doesn’t tell us what they are - Google “Australian Internet Filter” and see how many results you get that are relevant.
We live in a society that is ripping itself a part through censorship and fear. A walk through Sydney will show you this with its many, many security cameras at every intersection tracking our every move and watching people latch onto their bags when they pass a group of “Muslims” because they think they’re going to blow you up or beat you up an take all of your belongings.
It’s mostly due to constant media and political spin, it seems that we are not able to care for ourselves so someone must do it for us. Someone must tell us that speeding is dangerous so revenue raising and accident-causing cameras can be installed. Someone has to tell us sitting down, breathing or simply existing will give us cancer and that apparently thinking too much can actually give you wrinkles.
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| Ahe ha! Ahe ha! |
So what does the future hold for this country controlled by power-hungry elites who are only focused on their own personal gain? Your guess is as good as mine - maybe blogs like this will be taken down and the people behind the prosecuted for their beliefs.
Don’t believe the lies and spin.
JM
