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  1. 22nd November 2008, 10:48 PM #1
    Darren Mac an Phríora
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    Bilingual cigarette packs

    I bought a packet of smokes today and for the first time ever the health warnings were bilingual on them!!!

    This is a great development- albeit marginal. It took a woman from Ráth Cairn to bring the subject to court to get the matter sorted out.

    In the last few weeks the Bank of Ireland ATM's in shops now have a Gaeilge option also.

    These two developments are very good. Most of the business sector does not make enough use of of the Irish language and these two developments are very encouraging for the future of the language commercially where it has always been weakest/usually invisible.

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  3. 22nd November 2008, 10:51 PM #2
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    Quote Originally Posted by Darren Mac an Phríora View Post
    I bought a packet of smokes today and for the first time ever the health warnings were bilingual on them!!!

    This is a great development- albeit marginal. It took a woman from Ráth Cairn to bring the subject to court to get the matter sorted out.

    In the last few weeks the Bank of Ireland ATM's in shops now have a Gaeilge option also.

    These two developments are very good. Most of the business sector does not make enough use of of the Irish language and these two developments are very encouraging for the future of the language commercially where it has always been weakest/usually invisible.
    How many people in Ireland who speak Irish can not speak English and are old enough to smoke?
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  4. 22nd November 2008, 10:52 PM #3
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    They've been that way for a couple of months now. Pointless exercise, as everyone will just ignore the Irish the same as they ignore the English. Except the impotence ones, obviously. Which haven't been translated yet...
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  5. 22nd November 2008, 10:55 PM #4
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    Yeah - What a great victory - for minority opinion and complete irrelevance and pointlessness... Get a life !
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  6. 22nd November 2008, 10:55 PM #5
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    Quote Originally Posted by toxic avenger View Post
    They've been that way for a couple of months now.
    I don't think so. At least not where I have been buying them.

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  7. 22nd November 2008, 10:57 PM #6
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    Quote Originally Posted by Darren Mac an Phríora View Post
    I don't think so. At least not where I have been buying them.
    Well I smoke 20 Benson a day, they've been on it for several weeks now, here in Cork anyway...
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    Filthy cancer sticks / coffin nails are only bought by the stupid anyway.... Are any of them able to read ?
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  9. 22nd November 2008, 10:59 PM #8
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    Quote Originally Posted by toxic avenger View Post
    Well I smoke 20 Benson a day, they've been on it for several weeks now, here in Cork anyway...
    What's wrong with Woodbines ?
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    Yep, they came in on 30th September, having been announced in January...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Centurian View Post
    What's wrong with Woodbines ?
    I like having a hacking cough and the feeling that I have just poured paint-stripper down my windpipe...
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