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8:00pm Sunday 29th January 2012 in Blackburn
By Jon Livesey, Reporter
YOUNGSTERS are putting their health at risk by chewing tobacco meant for shisha pipes, according to councillors.
Coun Salim Mulla said he had seen youths chewing the tobacco, which comes in a variety of fruit flavours and is often brightly coloured.
Dangers include a risk of posioning from colourings as well as permanent mouth sores and cancers.
The Blackburn with Darwen Council Forum meeting on Thursday had already heard the local authority was taking a hard line on the sale of illicit tobacco.
Echoing calls by Coun Roy Davies for a crackdown on people who buy tobacco for youngsters, Coun Mulla urged further action.
He said: “I’m really glad that the council is clamping down on this, but there needs to be a further clamp down.
“I still see some kids with the small packets of tobacco. The tobacco is mixed with some other ingredients.
“I have seen them standing around, opening the packets outside corner shops.
What they do is put it in their hand, mix it and then put it in their mouth.
“I see a lot of kids doing this, so maybe it is something we need to look at.”
Coun Yusuf Jan-Virmani, executive member for neighbourhoods and customer services, said it was a particular problem in the Asian community.
He said ingredients in shisha tobacco, including colouring agents, made it unsuitable for chewing, and potentially dangerous.
“We take this issue very seriously,” he said.
“It does concern us and if we know which shops are selling this tobacco to children, we will sort it out.”
Comments(23)
CapitaBackHander
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8:57am Mon 30 Jan 12
louderfasterlonger wrote:That isn't fact! I and many (majority) others don't try or do something because it is illicit! People who state that argument are no doubt the type (daft or criminal) that do try it e.t.c
You make something illicit, the kids'll try it because illicit is enticing to youths, always has been, just like the BONG HOUSES that were exposed a coupla years ago !
You close down the youth's fun, they'll find fun elsewhere ! Maybe a CRACK-HOUSE instead.
Doesn't make it right, but it's fact !
Your ferret stinks
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9:06am Mon 30 Jan 12
armdec1
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9:07am Mon 30 Jan 12
Lifeinthemix
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10:11am Mon 30 Jan 12
Dave139
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12:30pm Mon 30 Jan 12
kempy
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12:39pm Mon 30 Jan 12
audleylad52
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12:51pm Mon 30 Jan 12
audleylad52
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12:54pm Mon 30 Jan 12
kempy wrote:I agree totally, educate them to the dangers as we do with cigarettes, but let them kill themselves if they want, as long as they don't start the filthy spitting thing. By the way, what licence? i didn't think shopkeepers needed a licence to sell tobacco ?
Let them get on with as long as they don't start spitting it out on the streets,up walls ,etc.
Most of the shop keepers have law to themselves it won't stop them.There is a shop nr where I live sells under the counter fags cheap hes been caught twice and still carry's on.They should have the license taken off them.
Keep Darwen Green
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1:04pm Mon 30 Jan 12
Lifeinthemix wrote:So if I cut myself should I use a phlem bandaid or an elastoplast? people in a food factory might look at you a bit strange if you cut yourself and you put a greenie on it!! I shouldn't think you'd be employed for long.
I do wonder if the rise against tobacco is to remove the huge mucus formation which scuppers their chemtrail agenda.
Mucus prevents airbourne disease and virus from reaching the body as it has its own immune system.
Your ferret stinks
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1:05pm Mon 30 Jan 12
Dave139 wrote:The very same people who have no morals or values and who's religeous beliefs are as low as whale sh1t, as soon as there is a pound to be made! These people need to be stopped in their tracks by whatever legal means are available and it's up to people who come on here for example to do our bit, these people do not care one jot about you, your family, your children or your values, or, quite ironically themselves though i very much doubt they would ever see it that way.
I wonder who is selling this illicit tobacco or any type of tobacco to children ?????
Keep Darwen Green
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1:10pm Mon 30 Jan 12
outofyourmind
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1:14pm Mon 30 Jan 12
CapitaBackHander wrote:ye right so when you put your foot down when your in ya car and speed whats that all about then, speeding is ileagal the limit is 20 or 30 on some roads its not 21.5 or 31.5. Or park your car in within 20 meter (66ft) of a corner to go to the shop thats ileagal,think that nothing to do with it! well i say that it as, what about takening stuff from work thats theft and beeing drunk in a public place is ileagal too.but people do that every weekend so were are your kid at weekend do you know? how old was your first sexual partner under 16 or were you under 16. thats ileagal to? as you can see you dont have to be a criminal to be a criminal. so if was you i would think! think again so unless your a monk or a nun you have no room to talk because we are all crims , some of us are smart enougth not to get nicked,
louderfasterlonger wrote: You make something illicit, the kids'll try it because illicit is enticing to youths, always has been, just like the BONG HOUSES that were exposed a coupla years ago ! You close down the youth's fun, they'll find fun elsewhere ! Maybe a CRACK-HOUSE instead. Doesn't make it right, but it's fact !That isn't fact! I and many (majority) others don't try or do something because it is illicit! People who state that argument are no doubt the type (daft or criminal) that do try it e.t.c
TugaysRightBoot
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1:28pm Mon 30 Jan 12
outofyourmind
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1:55pm Mon 30 Jan 12
TugaysRightBoot wrote:spot on that man. if the govenment had there way thay would lock us away (working class) till morning and micro chip us all. and the more tech thay develop brings us closer to that end..
Unless solving the problem results in jobs being made for the local area then leave them to it! In our 'economic crisis' - we have much more serious things to be sorting out! i.e - creating jobs! I read somewhere the other day that Subway are opening up another 600 shops in the UK, resulting in approx 4,000 jobs. Subway food isn't healthy - it's not much better for you than McDonalds, so the health ministers and doctors will whinge... but 4,000 people will be earning a wage! I don't chew shisha tobacco, or even know anyone that does - but it's pleasure for some people obviously. Just as I find pleasure in smoking cigarettes and having 4 cans of lager on a Friday night. Soon, all types of fun will be banned - resulting in more job losses (brewery workers, cigarette manufactures, tobacconists, nurses/doctors...)
Lifeinthemix
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3:41pm Mon 30 Jan 12
Keep Darwen Green wrote:behave yourself greenie you naughty boy...
Lifeinthemix wrote:So if I cut myself should I use a phlem bandaid or an elastoplast? people in a food factory might look at you a bit strange if you cut yourself and you put a greenie on it!! I shouldn't think you'd be employed for long.
I do wonder if the rise against tobacco is to remove the huge mucus formation which scuppers their chemtrail agenda.
Mucus prevents airbourne disease and virus from reaching the body as it has its own immune system.
kempy
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4:27pm Mon 30 Jan 12
outofyourmind
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5:19pm Mon 30 Jan 12
Keep Darwen Green wrote:ya muppit you cant inject cannabis if only you could,lol but i do see your point even thou cannabis was leagal in the 60s and the govenment wasnt getting the tax income because people planted there own. so thay banned it, and all crime around drugs is because of the blackmarket. the blackmarket is petrol fags beer dvds guns stolen stuff and you cant tell me theres no trubble over that lot. drugs, just part of the blackmarket witch is the root of all the mess.if tea had a mark up thay sell that to. take out the blackmarket and all youll get is people buying from a shop, just like a news paper. now beer thats differant even nice people turn nasty on beer, and beer was ileagal for a time in the 20s an30s.. smack nasty drug. coca or cocain rich mans drug.why do think were in this banking mess their all high and think there bullet proof gives you fake confidance, speed a sports mans drug makes you faster in reactions, LSD can you still get it ??? cannabis a, thinking man drug were you like to be in control but feel happy at same time. eee's like cocain and speed all at once. thats drugs for you but i would like to add all these drugs were leagal once, 1860 ish up to WW2 so if you wish to live in a truly free britain youll have to time travel most of the crime is because thay dont like getting nailed so thay kill an hurt people to keep their gobs shut.take away the law and there will be no need for these people to do nasty things like that. no risk! no trubble. just a lots of fights amoung drunks at weekend no change their..lol
My opinion is they should just let them get on with it. If it aint chewing tobacco its heroin or crack, you may as well just scrape them up when they're finished. I see them all over the place injecting cannabis, makes me sick leaving their spent cannabis laden syringes all over the place. Can't even buy plant food anymore without someone looking at me all funny in the supermarket.
Keep Darwen Green
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10:28pm Mon 30 Jan 12
outofyourmind wrote:I think you show a bit to much in depth knowledge for someone who isn't a crack pipe hitter themselves. I hope you dispose of your syringes in the correct manner otherwise if someone scrathches themselves with a used cannabis needle, they will become an addict as well.
Keep Darwen Green wrote:ya muppit you cant inject cannabis if only you could,lol but i do see your point even thou cannabis was leagal in the 60s and the govenment wasnt getting the tax income because people planted there own. so thay banned it, and all crime around drugs is because of the blackmarket. the blackmarket is petrol fags beer dvds guns stolen stuff and you cant tell me theres no trubble over that lot. drugs, just part of the blackmarket witch is the root of all the mess.if tea had a mark up thay sell that to. take out the blackmarket and all youll get is people buying from a shop, just like a news paper. now beer thats differant even nice people turn nasty on beer, and beer was ileagal for a time in the 20s an30s.. smack nasty drug. coca or cocain rich mans drug.why do think were in this banking mess their all high and think there bullet proof gives you fake confidance, speed a sports mans drug makes you faster in reactions, LSD can you still get it ??? cannabis a, thinking man drug were you like to be in control but feel happy at same time. eee's like cocain and speed all at once. thats drugs for you but i would like to add all these drugs were leagal once, 1860 ish up to WW2 so if you wish to live in a truly free britain youll have to time travel most of the crime is because thay dont like getting nailed so thay kill an hurt people to keep their gobs shut.take away the law and there will be no need for these people to do nasty things like that. no risk! no trubble. just a lots of fights amoung drunks at weekend no change their..lol
My opinion is they should just let them get on with it. If it aint chewing tobacco its heroin or crack, you may as well just scrape them up when they're finished. I see them all over the place injecting cannabis, makes me sick leaving their spent cannabis laden syringes all over the place. Can't even buy plant food anymore without someone looking at me all funny in the supermarket.
Cha'mone MF
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12:25am Tue 31 Jan 12
outofyourmind wrote:I'm surprised you don't inject it through your ears!
Keep Darwen Green wrote:ya muppit you cant inject cannabis if only you could,lol but i do see your point even thou cannabis was leagal in the 60s and the govenment wasnt getting the tax income because people planted there own. so thay banned it, and all crime around drugs is because of the blackmarket. the blackmarket is petrol fags beer dvds guns stolen stuff and you cant tell me theres no trubble over that lot. drugs, just part of the blackmarket witch is the root of all the mess.if tea had a mark up thay sell that to. take out the blackmarket and all youll get is people buying from a shop, just like a news paper. now beer thats differant even nice people turn nasty on beer, and beer was ileagal for a time in the 20s an30s.. smack nasty drug. coca or cocain rich mans drug.why do think were in this banking mess their all high and think there bullet proof gives you fake confidance, speed a sports mans drug makes you faster in reactions, LSD can you still get it ??? cannabis a, thinking man drug were you like to be in control but feel happy at same time. eee's like cocain and speed all at once. thats drugs for you but i would like to add all these drugs were leagal once, 1860 ish up to WW2 so if you wish to live in a truly free britain youll have to time travel most of the crime is because thay dont like getting nailed so thay kill an hurt people to keep their gobs shut.take away the law and there will be no need for these people to do nasty things like that. no risk! no trubble. just a lots of fights amoung drunks at weekend no change their..lol
My opinion is they should just let them get on with it. If it aint chewing tobacco its heroin or crack, you may as well just scrape them up when they're finished. I see them all over the place injecting cannabis, makes me sick leaving their spent cannabis laden syringes all over the place. Can't even buy plant food anymore without someone looking at me all funny in the supermarket.
DJ_Jaybee
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1:26am Tue 31 Jan 12
audleylad52
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2:36pm Tue 31 Jan 12
outofyourmind
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2:18am Wed 1 Feb 12
Keep Darwen Green wrote:Dear mr Green, there are thousands of people "No" Millons!, who know this type of information. And thay have too?. Its obvious to me!, you dont know who or what makes druggy?. well i hope to Enlighten you. (get you out of your fishbowl) Were to start?,> Dotors, Mental health professionls, Councilers, Drugs councilers, Therapists. thay need to know for treatment, (But in this case information about what doesnt work, history useful). There are also> Custons, verous Goverment department, POLICE, Judges Barristers, Lawers (mainly to limit loop holes). Thats not all,> Focus groups, Historans, and so no. These days your not a perfessional, if you dont know at lest some of what i wrote.( DRUGS TRADE make up 16% of GDP) Just to do their jobs?. As you can see knowledge doesnt make you a junky. BUT ignorances to the facts, as a 1st row seat. (for a start the likelyhood that you'll find druggie on here?, limited. If their are thay, must be weedsmokers!. (canabis> they don't use needles, you smoke it). This information is freely availble, anywhere on net if you look. As thay say "Know your enermy as you know your self". ( I'AVE HAD MY SAY ,I WILL NOT BE ADDING TO THE DEBAIT ANY MORE. THANK YOU AND GOOD BYE!...).NOTE> i do not do none of the above as a living, And if i did. Iam Not telling you lot. lolol
outofyourmind wrote:I think you show a bit to much in depth knowledge for someone who isn't a crack pipe hitter themselves. I hope you dispose of your syringes in the correct manner otherwise if someone scrathches themselves with a used cannabis needle, they will become an addict as well.Keep Darwen Green wrote: My opinion is they should just let them get on with it. If it aint chewing tobacco its heroin or crack, you may as well just scrape them up when they're finished. I see them all over the place injecting cannabis, makes me sick leaving their spent cannabis laden syringes all over the place. Can't even buy plant food anymore without someone looking at me all funny in the supermarket.ya muppit you cant inject cannabis if only you could,lol but i do see your point even thou cannabis was leagal in the 60s and the govenment wasnt getting the tax income because people planted there own. so thay banned it, and all crime around drugs is because of the blackmarket. the blackmarket is petrol fags beer dvds guns stolen stuff and you cant tell me theres no trubble over that lot. drugs, just part of the blackmarket witch is the root of all the mess.if tea had a mark up thay sell that to. take out the blackmarket and all youll get is people buying from a shop, just like a news paper. now beer thats differant even nice people turn nasty on beer, and beer was ileagal for a time in the 20s an30s.. smack nasty drug. coca or cocain rich mans drug.why do think were in this banking mess their all high and think there bullet proof gives you fake confidance, speed a sports mans drug makes you faster in reactions, LSD can you still get it ??? cannabis a, thinking man drug were you like to be in control but feel happy at same time. eee's like cocain and speed all at once. thats drugs for you but i would like to add all these drugs were leagal once, 1860 ish up to WW2 so if you wish to live in a truly free britain youll have to time travel most of the crime is because thay dont like getting nailed so thay kill an hurt people to keep their gobs shut.take away the law and there will be no need for these people to do nasty things like that. no risk! no trubble. just a lots of fights amoung drunks at weekend no change their..lol
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louderfasterlonger says...
9:41pm Sun 29 Jan 12
You close down the youth's fun, they'll find fun elsewhere ! Maybe a CRACK-HOUSE instead.
Doesn't make it right, but it's fact !