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Desperate Times Travel: Qantas Back to Selling Cigs

Where: Australia
July 16, 2008 at 10:45 AM | by | Comment (1)

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]

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Light it up!

The best quote from the anti-tobacco perspective is definitely: "Perhaps the flying kangaroo should be renamed the cancer kangaroo, such is their insistence on the in-flight sale and display of a product that will ultimately kill more than half of long-term users."  

Why would anyone name something the cancer kangaroo?  That's just dumb.  No way to sell cigarettes.

rdmcgeorge on July 16, 2008 at 11:39 AM #Permalink

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