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RadioFreeSeaLab

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Anti-smoking chief breaks ban on Day 1
« on: January 11, 2008, 10:39:23 AM »
http://tinyurl.com/35hwv5
Government hypocrisy, gotta love it.
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LISBON (Reuters) - The head of the Portuguese agency responsible for enforcing a new ban on smoking in public was seen lighting up at a New Year party, breaking the law on the first day it came into effect.

Antonio Nunes, president of Portugal's food standards agency, was photographed by the daily Diario de Noticias smoking a cigar at a casino on the outskirts of Lisbon.

Nunes told the daily he was not aware the anti-smoking law, which applies to cafes, restaurants and bars, also included casinos. But a spokesman for the Ministry of Health said it did.

"We will have to look into what is in the law," Nunes said.

(Reporting by Henrique Almeida; editing by Sarah Marsh)
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Re: Anti-smoking chief breaks ban on Day 1
« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2008, 11:18:29 AM »
Seen that on BBC, and got a laugh out of it.
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Re: Anti-smoking chief breaks ban on Day 1
« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2008, 11:11:48 AM »
"Scum like you think you're Above the Law, but you know what?  You're not."
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Re: Anti-smoking chief breaks ban on Day 1
« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2008, 04:04:11 PM »
Kind of depends on if it was before or after midnight right?

the anti-liberty..er I mean anti-smoking laws passed in the KC metro area exclude casinos.
How nice of them.
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Re: Anti-smoking chief breaks ban on Day 1
« Reply #4 on: January 12, 2008, 04:14:28 PM »
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Re: Anti-smoking chief breaks ban on Day 1
« Reply #5 on: January 12, 2008, 05:16:54 PM »
Quote from: veloce851 on January 12, 2008, 03:04:11 PM
the anti-liberty..er I mean anti-smoking laws passed in the KC metro area exclude casinos.
How nice of them.

We got a partial ban for the casinos here in AC.  SO, if you smoke, you get to be penned up with the other lepers, I mean smokers.
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Re: Anti-smoking chief breaks ban on Day 1
« Reply #6 on: January 12, 2008, 09:23:58 PM »
Reminds me of a lot of the GOP members and their views on gay rights.  One day calling for gays to be oppressed, then the very next day they are caught in some sort of a gay sex scandal.
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