Plain packaging on cigarettes (2 Viewers)

[funkshen]

Plain packaging will just encourage young children to doodle on their parents' plain packaged cigarette cartons with crayons.

Smoking toddlers everywhere.

 

[Funky Monk]

hahahahah eat shit smokers

errm the effect on smokers themselves will be pretty negligible hey

 

[Jimmy Recard]

plain packaging for tallyhos too?

 

[SylviaB]

hahahahah eat shit smokers

this will literally have zero effect on me

I just ask for the same ones I always ask for

that was a really stupid post

 

[Jimmy Recard]

benson and hedges smoootthh

 

[Funky Monk]

benson and hedges smoootthh

oh hey, dad

 

[Chemical Ali]

if they banned hideous art on ed hardy shirts, or oversized D&G logos on handbags, these things would clearly be less popular with stupid people (their target market)

will removal of branding have the same effect on cigs? discuss.

 

[Funky Monk]

yeah okay because clothing is addictive no

dumb theory

 

[cosmo kramer]

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i want to poz you but i can't =(

 

[Chemical Ali]

yeah okay because clothing is addictive no

dumb theory

the current legislation already prevents shops from displaying cigarettes, there's no possible way the branding can be relevant to attracting people to buy cigarettes right now

so the only possible effect it could have is diminishing the appeal of a particular brand as a symbol of some kind for the person walking around with it

 

[Optimus Prime]

The tobacco industry is spending millions of dollars to spread that message.

Millions of dollars invested to spread the message about how confident they are that they will not lose millions of dollars of revenue if this policy is introduced.

because they can't compete with each other, not because it will reduce smoking.

 

[Lentern]

this will literally have zero effect on me

I just ask for the same ones I always ask for

that was a really stupid post

Why did you not block him? There was a campaign for it and everything.

 

[Existential]

errm the effect on smokers themselves will be pretty negligible hey

this will literally have zero effect on me

I just ask for the same ones I always ask for

that was a really stupid post

it certainly won't boost smoking rates, and there's no legitimate reason why smokes deserve their own packaging. now smoking has basically been stripped of its last piece of dignity, the next steps will be restricting smoking further and further (maybe even leading to prohibition). and if it has no effect on you, you and others wouldn't be rage posting in this thread against it.

 

[Existential]

Why did you not block him? There was a campaign for it and everything.

obviously most people havent blocked me. if people disgree with me they should still argue their case and legitimately address my argument. blocking me is cowardly. u seem to be the only person not responding to my comments but still commenting about me publically. your strategy here seems a little illogical and unsupported.

 

[SnowFox]

it certainly won't boost smoking rates, and there's no legitimate reason why smokes deserve their own packaging. now smoking has basically been stripped of its last piece of dignity, the next steps will be restricting smoking further and further (maybe even leading to prohibition). and if it has no effect on you, you and others wouldn't be rage posting in this thread against it.

Next they will tell mcdonalds they can not supply toys with their happy meals.



And i will not be a happy pappy.

 

[Optimus Prime]

it certainly won't boost smoking rates, and there's no legitimate reason why smokes deserve their own packaging. now smoking has basically been stripped of its last piece of dignity, the next steps will be restricting smoking further and further (maybe even leading to prohibition). and if it has no effect on you, you and others wouldn't be rage posting in this thread against it.

The government would never ban it because a) prohibition has never worked, ever. b) there'd be a $5 bn hole in the budget.

 

[Jimmy Recard]

yeah okay because clothing is addictive no

dumb theory

fast food

 

[Amogh]

With the Coalition backing this proposition it's looking worryingly real!
Tbh I don't think the packaging shall be a deterrent of any sort. Do people really smoke because of a nifty pack? No. It's their addiction.

 

[Funky Monk]

it certainly won't boost smoking rates, and there's no legitimate reason why smokes deserve their own packaging. now smoking has basically been stripped of its last piece of dignity, the next steps will be restricting smoking further and further (maybe even leading to prohibition). and if it has no effect on you, you and others wouldn't be rage posting in this thread against it.

Please expand on this retarded line of thought.

 

[Jimmy Recard]

bullets get their own packaging