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Monday September 29

Tobacco addiction

“A friend recently landed in a psychiatric hospital and came out addicted to both vapes and cigarettes – he purchases them from several local shops in various flavours and is constantly asking to borrow money to fuel his habit. While I will not give him any money, I have paid for his food out of my pension, because I cannot stand the thought of anyone going hungry. How do we protect those like him?”

Anna Zamecznik

Vape waste

“As a cyclist, I frequently see vapes that have been thrown out of cars on roads and in gutters. Likewise at beaches and on nature walking trails. As one who has been picking up waste in natural areas for over 70 years, I find this new "invader” particularly abhorrent. Hard plastics that don’t break down in any acceptable time, if ever?“

Bep Van Ginkel, Coolum Beach QLD

Everyone’s buying it

"Anecdote from a regional Queensland town: a friend was buying illegal tobacco (chop chop) and was surprised to see a local police officer also in the shop – purchasing the same tobacco.”

Philip Benjamin

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