Nelson Weekly Your Community Newspaper
Tuesday 29 May 2012
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Teens work for smokes Josie Krishnasamy The rising cost of cigarettes won’t deter a group of Nelson students despite many of them working part time jobs to pay for their habit. Nelson Weekly spoke with a group of teenage smokers who are either at high school or recently finished. All were girls and all started when they were still too young to buy tobacco. Most still are too young. They say they “don’t know” why they smoke but buy their tobacco at Nelson retailers who notoriously don’t ask for ID and if they don’t have enough money to buy a whole packet, will go halves with their friends, because they simply can’t go without their daily intake of nicotine. Some even go to the effort of brushing their teeth to cover any lingering smell on their breath before visiting boyfriends who don’t know about their habit.
One Nelson College for Girls student tampered with her ID to make her age appear over 18 and others get parents, friends or older siblings to buy it or simply visit shops that don’t ask for ID. An announcement by the government in last week’s budget that the price of cigarettes is set to rise by ten per cent every year for the next four didn’t even deter them. “I’ll keep smoking, I can’t stop,” says high school student Hannah Flemming, 17. The girls paid for their tobacco by working part time jobs outside of school time with a couple working full time. Most said their parents were against their smoking “but couldn’t do anything”. Others admitted smoking at interval and lunchtime while at school and even smoking in their car so they wouldn’t get caught by
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Nelson’s Angela “Angie Septic” Lyall of the Sirens of Smash blocks the Christchurch jammer at the triple header Roller Derby at the Trafalgar Centre on Saturday night. Photo: Rosie Thomsen.
Sirens try to smash derby foes There were thrills and spills as some of the South Island’s feistiest women took to the track in front of a full house for the first ever triple header hosted in Nelson. Though the Sirens fought a good
battle, it was the Dunedin Derby Gallow Lasses that took out the trophy in frong of 2000 people. “It was a little bit disappointing that we didn’t win for our home crowd, but we’re still new,” says Siren Tara
Forde. The three teams that took part would like to see the event become an annual competition. “We’re just really thrilled that it all went so well and the support we got,” says Tara.
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