Cornflower,

Quite right tobacco has no safe level of consumption, this is a good point and is justification for the hash treatment of this drug. But why then do we not make it illegal or stop the double standard and legalise many other drugs. Marihuana is a good example. Despite more recent medical evidence of negative psychological effects it still only has similar social impacts to those of alcohol. The biggest concern is children using it not adults, this stands for alcohol as well. In fact considering that marihuana can be eaten removing the need to smoke and the health effects of smoking, where is the problem. I have got a bit off point here but the core issue i have is the inconsistant standards we have in the application of regulation of all sorts of product from drugs to foods.
Am i the only one that sees this double standard as a major problem with our social standards. I really am left with little faith that the community could really care less about these problems so long as there are big profits and good super returns.

If you wanted to reduce rates of smoking, the minimum age would go up by a year each year, and smokes would be prescription-only.

If you want to make heaps of money, just fiddle around the edges and make it look like you are doing something, like taxing the heck out of it using the high moral ground of health concern pretense.

Who would write the prescription?

Excellent thread Rechtub.

I suggest the methods used when I had smoked for a couple of years [not through pregnancies, not at work, and not around my children]of a night outside.

. I bought a mountain bike years ago and ride [uphills were to deter and give up smoking]
- perhaps illustrating the pack with a mountain bike and person on it wheezing and expelling the phlegm may be of assistance
. An illustration of a packet of licorice and apples [both licorice and pectin in the apples cut my cravings as did mandarins and oranges]
. Include an illustration of a person swimming, walking and jogging, put some fun and romance into it, showing a couple meeting and kissing with fresh clear lungs and breaths
. Use an illustration of a person with a matchstick or toothpick in their mouth [has assisted many]
. Ban cigarettes ie 'no packets'most effective remedy