You know your govt has gone too far when...

[IQS.RLOW]

Even the commies in Cuba object to your socialist interventions.

ALP= Worse than Castro.

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Cuba files dispute against Australia on tobacco plain packaging

Cuba notified the WTO Secretariat, on 3 May 2013, of a request for consultations with Australia on the Australian Tobacco Plain Packaging Act of 2011 that regulates the appearance and form of retail packaging used in connection with sales of cigars, cigarettes and other tobacco products.

[Black Orchid]

Slightly unrelated but before plain packaging you were allowed to bring 2 cartons of cigarettes in through customs. Now you are restricted to 2 packets. No idea why. I guess the government needs more taxes.

[Jovial_Monk]

bwahahahaha

Plain packaging is great. Turned existing smokers off their cancer sticks and definitely will deter kids from taking up the brutish habit.

The Pushers in Suits (http://wp.me/p30JJG-3I" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;) tried to get Ukraine and a couple other places to launch action at the WTO. Trouble was, those countries didn’t produce tobacco anymore so I guess Big Tobacco turned to Cuba.

Won’t work anyway.

[boxy]

Will Tony get rid of plain packaging, IQs?

[IQS.RLOW]

Doesn't matter what Abbott would do.

What matters is what the ALP have done, and they have managed do something even Castro himself thinks is a step too far.

I'm sure Roxons next gig in N.Korea will be productive for her and she will fit right in where bowl cuts are mandatory.

[Jovial_Monk]

Nah, I guess Big Tobacco bribed or threatened Cuba.

You are making entirely too much of things, probably because you are an ignorant, inadequate little loser mad at the world.

[Jovial_Monk]

I would imagine Abbott would cave in on Plain Packaging at the first hint of a twist of his arms, no strength of character there.

[boxy]

Doesn't matter what Abbott would do.

What matters is what the ALP have done, and they have managed do something even Castro himself thinks is a step too far.

I'm sure Roxons next gig in N.Korea will be productive for her and she will fit right in where bowl cuts are mandatory.

I would have thought that you would have supported anything that Castro thought was bad.

Strange bedfellows.

What do you think?

[IQS.RLOW]

Castro is arguing for free market principles.
That puts the ALPs closer to fascism than Castro, which must send a nice warm glow through your brown shirt eh?

[Jovial_Monk]

I think the Cubans are worried about fewer people taking up the brutish, life-limiting habit of smoking. Pure self interest.