Tag: display bans

Nanny Statists Force WA Opera To Cancels Bizet’s Carmen

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Nanny Statists Force WA Opera To Cancels Bizet’s Carmen




The multi-million dollar nanny state  industry has just scored its latest victory! This time, they have been able to take down the evil scourge that is … opera! That’s right, no longer content with gouging Australians with the highest tobacco taxes in the world and calling for food rationing taxpayer funded nanny statists have now decided to take on Opera, forcing a cancellation of the Bizet’s classic Carmen. WA Today reports that: A sponsorship agreement between WA Opera and Healthway has seen plans scrapped to perform a show where the…




Tobacco Display Bans: The Evidence

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Tobacco Display Bans: The Evidence




Patrick Basham, director of the Democracy Institute has a great summary of the evidence supporting tobacco display bans (which have been in place in Australian States for a number of years). The results… shouldn’t surprise anyone: Between 2005 and 2010, each of Canada’s provinces instituted display bans. Those bans have had a devastating effect on Canadian convenience stores, which have lost 1 million daily visits and billions of dollars in tobacco and non-tobacco revenue as a result of the bans, as smokers have taken their business elsewhere. Not surprisingly, bankruptcies in the…