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Speaker 1: This is the Fits In with Kate Richie podcast.

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Speaker 2: Hey, an unusual pitch for how to decrease teenagers vaping

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Speaker 2: in New South Wales has been heard by a government

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Speaker 2: inquiry doctor Colin Mendelssohn.

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Speaker 1: He knows your stuff, col but.

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Speaker 2: He's come out this is an interesting one because he's

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Speaker 2: saying that at schools, if you want to wing kids

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Speaker 2: off the vaping, you've got to find vaping areas that

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Speaker 2: they can do it. So a designated outdoor vaping area

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Speaker 2: that shoots that are suffering from.

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Speaker 1: Withdrawals, because this is what they'll go through. They'll have withdrawals.

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Speaker 1: It's not as easy as nicotine. Just get off the vapes.

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Speaker 1: You just can't get off the vapes, Kate, you vaping for.

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Speaker 3: But that's what you've got to commit to, the withdrawals.

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Speaker 3: If you commit to the smoking, you've got to commit

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Speaker 3: to the withdraws to get out the other side.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know what if there's a vaping area

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Speaker 2: at a school, as if the other kids aren't going

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Speaker 2: to get stuck into those kids that are just vaping

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Speaker 2: from the outside. I suppose it's not going to be

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Speaker 2: like a fenced off area.

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Speaker 3: It could be like in the airports where it's Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it would be, but you have to you have to

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Speaker 3: register for the area, So you have to you have

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Speaker 3: to register through the school.

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Speaker 2: Saying I'm trying to get off vaping. I don't want

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Speaker 2: to vape anymore. So can I have a quick little

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Speaker 2: sack over here during lunchtime and I can slowly wean

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Speaker 2: myself off?

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Speaker 3: Is the argument that if you have a designated area

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Speaker 3: and time to do it, that like in class, you

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Speaker 3: won't have it in your pocket or and do it

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Speaker 3: all day.

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Speaker 1: Srink it up your sleeve.

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Speaker 2: Man, it's you know what, there's a story that I need.

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Speaker 2: I need to get a very good friend on the show,

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Speaker 2: Robert Crashcratic. He's one of the best sports journalists this

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Speaker 2: country's ever produced, and he's a good friend of mine.

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Speaker 1: He joins us now, Crash, welcome to the show, buddy.

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Speaker 4: How are you whipper cake? Nice? A bit nice start

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Speaker 4: for the day to join you.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for coming on, buddy, it's honor to have you

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Speaker 3: on the Showy.

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Speaker 4: Last night we had a terrific time on the back

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Speaker 4: page full of crazy old yarns and I'm back in

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Speaker 4: Brisbane now. But it's an interesting topic, is that the

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Speaker 4: vaving one.

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Speaker 2: It really is. It is and Crash, I want to

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Speaker 2: know that they're thinking about having designated vafing areas here

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Speaker 2: at school.

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Speaker 1: But Crash, you told me a story. You had a.

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Speaker 2: Different thing at your high school growing up. Can you

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Speaker 2: tell the guys what happened at your school?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well it was at Frawley College and we were

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Speaker 4: allowed to smoke back in the eighties in our last

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Speaker 4: year because the teachers were sick of picking up cigarette

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Speaker 4: butts out of the urinals and they said, all right,

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Speaker 4: there's no ware house smoked there. So Fifcy, my best mate,

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Speaker 4: used to arrive at school, I sat beside him. You

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Speaker 4: had a pack of a bench and a Edges extra

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Speaker 4: moldige pocket top pocket. Every day you could see it

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Speaker 4: in the classroom. But we developed the mannerisms too of smokers.

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Speaker 4: I was an asthmatic, what an idiot at the same

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Speaker 4: time I went smoke and I always remember going taking

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Speaker 4: a big dawback of God, chemistry sucks.

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Speaker 1: Like you a Carrie Packer.

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Speaker 2: That you actually hated smoking, but because it was legal

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Speaker 2: at school and everyone.

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Speaker 1: Did it, you just peer pressure. You just smoked.

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Speaker 4: Oh well you did, And honestly, my head used to.

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Speaker 4: I remember having one before an English exam. In my

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Speaker 4: head was just spinning because I was an asthmatic with

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Speaker 4: small lungs. Think you what was I thinking? What an idiot?

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Speaker 4: It's funny, how take the more you have, the more

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Speaker 4: you want. When they said you could smoke at the warehouse,

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Speaker 4: a few of us said we smoke in class as well,

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Speaker 4: and they said, they said you were the answered. We thought,

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Speaker 4: oh god, you're so straighty one eighty not letting us

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Speaker 4: do that, you know, So I thought.

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Speaker 3: You were going to say that you had an ash

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Speaker 3: tray on your desk.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, crash. The combination of nicotine and ventilin

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Speaker 1: is just beautiful, isn't it.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, no, wonder my marks were so poor that school.

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Speaker 4: But it was. It was an interesting time, but I

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Speaker 4: guess at one relevant point wise, none of my mates

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Speaker 4: that smoked at school smoked after school, Like it was

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Speaker 4: almost if the novelty had passed through them. And I

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Speaker 4: thought of that when you were talking about the vaping

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Speaker 4: and the vaping areas like people said. I've heard people say, gee,

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Speaker 4: I bet you that started a lot of people up

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Speaker 4: on the wrong foot at school smoking actually, believe it

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Speaker 4: or not, it went the other one.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, right, because they got it out of the system.

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Speaker 2: There was a great footballer from the Brisbane Broncos that

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Speaker 2: was at your school that used to smoke as well, Crash.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Petro sivin receiver long and he played more than

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Speaker 4: three hundred games the club and just an iron man.

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Speaker 4: And here when I see him, I always say to him,

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Speaker 4: did they were they still smoking here in grade twelve?

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Speaker 4: He said yes? And when I tell the story, no

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Speaker 4: one believes me. He said, You're the only person who

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Speaker 4: I could talk to about it, because when you say

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Speaker 4: we smoked, great, well they smoked in grade twelve. I'm

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Speaker 4: not sure whether he did, but he said it was

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Speaker 4: still a big thing then. But that was there last

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Speaker 4: year when they decided enough was enough.

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Speaker 1: So take it back one day just before you go,

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Speaker 1: you're off the darts. Now, are you no more smoking?

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Speaker 1: For Crash Credding Now.

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Speaker 4: I haven't had one for about forty years, but I've

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Speaker 4: got to say this though, Yeah, it was that they

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Speaker 4: were back in the eighties. Like where you were sitting

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Speaker 4: now in a studio, there would be three people smoking

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Speaker 4: at any given time. How I sit in the newsroom

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Speaker 4: at work, where at any given time with no windows,

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Speaker 4: there would have been twenty five of them.

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Speaker 3: I know, it's hilarious. I've told that story too. I

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Speaker 3: think back at Channel seven in the day. You know

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Speaker 3: the cameraman even doing the news would be before they

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Speaker 3: go to the news that they go live for the news,

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Speaker 3: but they put their cigarette out on the on the camera.

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Speaker 1: I went live, Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 4: And the last bastion was Shane Warren who at every

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Speaker 4: cricket ground in Australia, Warnie had his little smoking area

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Speaker 4: where he'd sneak into a room and someone had give

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Speaker 4: him a weekend and they could take in their warning

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Speaker 4: and away go for a little secret path.

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Speaker 1: World Crash. Thanks for coming on the Showybody.

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Speaker 4: Pleadure, catch you soon. Thanks a lot, mate.

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