Radio host Kyle Sandilands has weighed in on the Federal Government’s plan to put warning labels on individual cigarettes.
Under the tobacco regulations, warning messages including ‘poison in every puff’, ‘damages your lungs’, ’causes 16 cancers’, ‘shortens your life’ and ‘toxic addiction’ must be printed on every cigarette by April 2025.
Sandilands, himself a prodigious puffer, said the new measures were redundant, claiming every smoker is already aware cigarettes are damaging their health.
‘What a waste of time,’ Kyle spat.
‘We all know smoking is no good for us. We still choose to do it because it’s not illegal.’
Newsreader Brooklyn Ross added that watching the message disappear as the cigarette is smoked, could have the opposite effect.
‘You know what will be kind of awkward is that as you’re smoking, the person next to you is going to see that message slowly go away as you smoke it down,’ he said.
Clearly nonplussed with the recent developments, a grumpy Kyle replied with: ‘I couldn’t give a rats a**e about what someone else thinks.’
Radio host Kyle Sandilands has weighed in on the Federal Government’s plan to put warning labels on individual cigarettes
Kyle’s comments come after strict new rules to stamp out smoking are set to come into effect.
The regulation guidelines were released in October 2024, giving manufacturers five months to comply with the April 2025 deadline.
Federal health minister Mark Butler said that retailers will have a three-month transition period
Under the tobacco regulations, warning messages including ‘poison in every puff’, ‘damages your lungs’, ’causes 16 cancers’, ‘shortens your life’ and ‘toxic addiction’ must be printed on every cigarette by April 2025
‘What a waste of time,’ Kyle spat. ‘We all know smoking is no good for us. We still choose to do it because it’s not illegal’
Mr Butler said that retailers will have a three-month transition period to sell existing stock.
But industry sources told the Daily Telegraph that manufacturers will need more time to be able to revamp their supply chains in time to produce the new government-required cigarettes.
If manufacturers miss the deadline, Australia could face a situation where legal cigarettes are unavailable in stores.
Nationals senator Matt Canavan warned the government there was a ‘clear and understandable risk’ that people would turn to illegal cigarettes as a result of the legislation.
Currently, cigarette packets in Australia must display health warnings on the front, back, and side of the package
It’s unlikely that Kyle will take heed of the new warnings, with the shock jock revealing in 2020 that he’s been known to spark up in the shower. Kyle is pictured with wife Teagan Kynaston and son Otto
Currently, cigarette packets in Australia must display health warnings on the front, back, and side of the package.
The warnings, which also feature gruesome imagery, must cover at lest 75 per cent of the front, and 90 per cent of the back of the pack.
It’s unlikely that Kyle will take heed of the new warnings, with the shock jock revealing in 2020 that he’s been known to spark up in the shower.
‘It’s not that difficult because I’ve got the ashtray sticking out of the wall,’ he told his co-host Jackie O Henderson.
Jackie jokingly informed him: ‘Kyle that’s your soap dish not an ashtray and you know that.’
This wasn’t the first time Kyle has spoken about his unhealthy bathroom smoking habit.
‘It’s not the best way to smoke, but smoking in the shower is a whole different thing.’ he previously revealed on his radio show.
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