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Intro: The Australian Medical Association cannot believe that QANTAS has made a decision to sell in-flight duty-free cigarettes on international routes.
The AMA understands that QANTAS has instructed its staff to ensure that cigarettes are ‘displayed prominently on top’ of the in-flight duty-free cart to ‘ensure our customers are aware of the duty-free products onboard’ and to ‘boost sales’.
AMA President, Dr Rosanna Capolingua, has labelled QANTAS’ apparent actions a retrograde step that encouraged smoking and was inconsistent with government and community efforts to address the causes of preventable chronic disease.
The AMA will be writing to QANTAS to urge the airline to reverse any decision to sell tobacco products on its flights.
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