I expect 'one stick' of tobacco has a sourcing/manufacturing/ packaging/transportation cost that is so miniscule that there are still profits made in countries where - relative to average earnings - packets of cigs are very cheap.
Suspect cigs, here, are being sent in from the middle east.
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The promos alone were enough for me to steer clear and this brief summary confirms all the reasons why I was intuitively right to do so, Molk!
Uh-oh. Do we need a new version of @magnets.eurosky.social’s brilliant observation about how climate change will manifest?
In a surreal twist, people are now doubting footage that is both very real and very close to home—a result of AI imagery poisoning the waters:
www.tickaroo.com/e/GCRysAwNeu...
When I was there smokers in Turkey could buy packets for almost nothing. I expect Malaysia, Philippines and other southeast Asian countries will be the focus, as well as all the countries of Africa.
I can appreciate that there must be, Suey!
I'm sorry to hear that, Suey. I wouldn't have asked publicly if I'd known that 😳
I've know how this feels! What's your field of expertise, Suey?
For how many decades will this COP substitute (30 years and counting) hold expensive, pollution-creating, solution-evading meetings to not do anything? #GlobalBoiling #ClimateChange transitionawayconference.com
Some gyms in China offer 37-day memberships to account for missed training days due to menstrual cycles. The approach promotes fairness, flexibility, and improved well-being in fitness access.
A reminder that manosphere sites aren't just rapists like Tates. Many are sites like this disguised to look like benign, even wholesome support for men. They prey on men by sprinkling in toxic positivity with their misogyny in an effort to radicalize struggling men.
"... it was only four years since Oceania had been at war with Eastasia and in alliance with Eurasia ... The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible."
Ignorant woman ignores the socialisation of men in a culture that, at the least, frowns on boys or men who express emotions outside the sporting arena, and attributes their lack of outward expression, not to the toxic masculinity that has stunted their maturity, but to their gender's lack of EQ.
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How much of man's war, murder and destruction, throughout history, was motivated by lack of love and admiration from their parents?
If only people were as outraged over the murder of Palestinian children as they are over an Israeli soldier smashing a statue of Jesus.
This is a $368B bribe to keep the U.S. on side and it is now redundant and must be cancelled.
Images show Israel building permanent military bases in Gaza as US-backed reconstruction plans stall.
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Come ON #Sydney, do your stuff!
