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Health minister is non-smoker of the year

Friday 30 May 2008

Health minister Ab Klink has been named 'non-smoker of the year' by the Clean Air association. Klink is responsible for forcing through a ban on smoking in bars, restaurants and cafés from July 1.

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Some acheievement, ask smokers what they feel about his prize!

By Tooran van Brakazai | May 31, 2008 12:12 PM


The non-smoking ban cannot come quick enough. I wonder if smokers realize how bad their breath is for a start, and what damage their smoke is doing to other people? Why do smokers take a big drag of their cigarette and then hold the cigarette at least several feet from their own face, so that I and others inhale their smoke. If they love smoking so much why don't they hold the damn cigaertte under their own face and allow the smoke to infiltrate their own nose, eyes, and hair? I would not complain so much if they at least had the decency to hold the cigarette infront of their own face. I have never smoked in my life but am a victim of passive smoking, having to have a heart operation as a result of working with someone for 25 years who smoked non-stop.

By James Autar | June 2, 2008 8:27 AM


Well ... why do smoker hold their fags at a distance? I know several smokers who get nasty nausea if they hold the fag under their own nose for more than a few seconds.

We are living in what I'm told is the posher end of town but we have many flavours and qualities of tobacco smoke, and often mixed with something/s 'Not Tolerated', whafting through the air, and making some of us very sick ... not that anyone cares!

By Gerard | June 3, 2008 4:06 AM


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