New Zealand-brand cigarettes

[Back Fire]

Dude, you're looking too low...

...the green bits are up the top!

NZ has no green... tatty scrub bush... it needs to all be ripped out and real trees planted

[Indiana_Jones]

might as well ban NZ labeled beer, cause that promotes heavy drinking.



-Indy

[Lucy]

Jeepers chick, you live in Raetihi for gods sake. You really cant be serious?! I grew up in Ohakune and have lived in Rotovegas, Auckland and Wgtn and I have travelled most of the North Island. I went hitch-hiking round the South Island a couple or so years ago, its beautiful! More than anywhere that ive seen up here. I reckon that the further South I went the more friendlier the people were. Though that is just MY opinion!

Hiya, not sure what living in Raetihi has got to do with anything, but maybe my problem was that on lots of my trips down south I've been with friends and family from overseas. People would be all friendly and nice, speak to the foreigners and then turn to us, recognize the Kiwi accent, the smile drops, they find out we were from the North Island and they would start insulting us! Was funny the first 1000 times....

Nothing to do with our attitudes either, like I said, they were fine and friendly, as we were, until they found out where we lived. Made a bad impression on our overseas friends.

But that's just my impression, formed over three or four trips, one of them three months long. Glad you had a better time.

[El Dopa]

...dillusional....

One zillion infraction points for you...........Or am I being delusional.

[Chickadee]

Yep we're all a bit brain washed that NZ's clean and green, and we sure is ain't in the way we live and dipsose of waste. Electricity needs will only increase, time for looking at new clean ways to make electricity that doesn't ruin the landscape.

There was a doco on TV3 last year called 'Our dirty little secret' which was quite a revelation as to the chemicals we use in our homes, Sodium Laurl Sulpate being a skin sensitiser and it's in so many things like shampoo's and soaps. Lots of harmful ingredients in products we use all the time, - think we need to go back to using non-harmful stuff that our Grandparents probably used.

Glad I never smoked, sounds like a bitch of a habit to kick, whatever brand you smoke. I just ride a 20-smoker instead (sorry environment).

[McJim]

I've lost it.

I started this thread as an attempt to troll but I've started some sensible environmental discussion. I'll never be able to hold my head high under the bridge with the other trolls again

The reason I saw fit to raise the subject is because I bought into the 100% pure ad campaign in the UK (as alluded to by Hitcher).

Back home we are conditioned to believe that large cars are bad. Bad for the environment and bad for your sex life. Girls in the UK actually do assume blokes with performance cars have small penises and are bad in bed hence they need to make up for it with metal.

So I came over here with the expectation that most people would drive 1 litre or 1.1 litre cars and that there would be mainly hydro or wind turbine power stations.

I thought you'd have a Nationwide electric rail service run on geothermal power (Italy has had that for a couple of decades now) as it's so much more environmentally friendly to move freight by rail - trucks are nasty polluters.

Having said all of that I myself have become a bit more of a petrol head and am enjoying the accessibility to all things internal combustion that were forbidden fruit back home.

And many of you have never experienced fuel costs like the UK - I think I pissed myself a little the first time my mother in law complained about fuel prices!

Now who has a 1980's Vauxhall Nova 1.2 with spoiler and stiffened suspension I can borrow for old time's sake?

[onearmedbandit]

On the cigarette subject I am very happy to find I can now buy Mild Sevens in Christchurch.

[Karma]

The reason I saw fit to raise the subject is because I bought into the 100% pure ad campaign in the UK (as alluded to by Hitcher).

I think a lot of people did, but they're keeping the shipping companies in business... shift a load of stuff here... wait 2-3years, shift it all back again.

Having said all of that I myself have become a bit more of a petrol head and am enjoying the accessibility to all things internal combustion that were forbidden fruit back home.

And many of you have never experienced fuel costs like the UK - I think I pissed myself a little the first time my mother in law complained about fuel prices!

Well now you can afford petrol, how you gonna afford food and rent? Or are you one that's come over and is content to live in cold leaky homes and eat nothing but fucking kfc and pies?

[NighthawkNZ:Me]

any one got a cigerette... I don't smoke, but I cough enough in the morning so I thought I would start, so that I could quit...

make it look like I am doing something for me cough... :scratrch: not only that all this presure and talk about smoking, for us young fellas its... its...

on the other hand if I smoke I won't be able to afford petrol... hmmm decisions decisions

[Grahameeboy]

Regardless, NZ is still a great country to live in........I guess it's swings and roundabouts.

McJim, the only other place I would live is Scotland....Munros to bag, Bothy's to sleep the nite......only another 167 to go but may take a while as I am here...

[Harry33]

I think a lot of people did, but they're keeping the shipping companies in business... shift a load of stuff here... wait 2-3years, shift it all back again.



Well now you can afford petrol, how you gonna afford food and rent? Or are you one that's come over and is content to live in cold leaky homes and eat nothing but fucking kfc and pies?

mmmmm pies, In Vancouver the pies are shit, nothing but vegetables and you seem to only be able to find them in the supermarkets. I miss steak and cheese pies.

Anyway NZ labeled cigs who thought up this shit?

[Flatcap]

Just don't lie and tell the world you're green and environmentally friendly okay

Every year the environment kills dozens of people - why should we be friendly to it?

I personally like the smell of coal smoke. Sort of like 2-stroke, but heavier.

[Skyryder]

When you use the national icon and the name of our country as a brand and it's a 'brand,' to sell an addictive poison then the Govt has every right to bitch and moan as do all kiwi's if they so wish.

Skyryder

[Lucy]

I've lost it.


And many of you have never experienced fuel costs like the UK - I think I pissed myself a little the first time my mother in law complained about fuel prices!

Now who has a 1980's Vauxhall Nova 1.2 with spoiler and stiffened suspension I can borrow for old time's sake?

I drove a Supershuttle for a while and and as we passed the Shell station leaving the airport the Europeans would say 'Ooh petrols cheap' and the Americans would say 'Ooh petrols dear'. (Well, the smart ones did, the dumb ones thought the price was for a gallon....)

Did you really move to the other side of the world without doing your own research?

[BIGBOSSMAN]

Every year the environment kills dozens of people - why should we be friendly to it?

I personally like the smell of coal smoke. Sort of like 2-stroke, but heavier.

Hear hear. Now there spoketh the voice of reason. Why argue with what's so inherently correct