Desperate Times Travel: Qantas Back to Selling Cigs
Where: Australia
After nearly a decade, Qantas is bringing back in-flight cigarette sales on international flights. Though the carrier isn't allowed to advertise smokes, it can and will start stacking them prominently on top of duty free carts as they trundle down the aisles.
Obviously, this has the anti-tobacco lobby more than upset. Says the head of one anti-smoking group:
Retail tobacco display is a powerful form of advertising, especially in association with a highly respected brand name like Qantas, and research shows it normalizes and encourages young people to smoke.
Wait. Qantas is a respected brand?
Related Stories:
· Qantas Brings Back In-Flight Cigarette Sales [The Age]
· Smoking coverage [Jaunted]
[Photo: SpacePotato]
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