Cigarettes plain packaging
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14 Jul 2012, 21:09
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What´s your opinion on plain packaging for cigarettes?
-As i understand in Australia the legislation will force cigarette companies to sell their cigarettes in a logo-free drab dark brown packaging from December 2012.(wiki)
-The British government has announced the start of a consultation on the introduction of plain packaging of tobacco products.
For those unfamiliar with the subject, the WHO urges governments to strictly regulate the tobacco industry and this was one of the ideas that came up to lower tobacco consumption.
If passes in the UK, it will set a precedent and probably many other countries could/would do it, too.
I don´t smoke but i think it sucks, cuz all the packs would look the same and well i kinda like brands and this would put an end to em in the tobacco industry.
Some pics that shows how could they look like:
What´s your opinion ?
-As i understand in Australia the legislation will force cigarette companies to sell their cigarettes in a logo-free drab dark brown packaging from December 2012.(wiki)
-The British government has announced the start of a consultation on the introduction of plain packaging of tobacco products.
For those unfamiliar with the subject, the WHO urges governments to strictly regulate the tobacco industry and this was one of the ideas that came up to lower tobacco consumption.
If passes in the UK, it will set a precedent and probably many other countries could/would do it, too.
I don´t smoke but i think it sucks, cuz all the packs would look the same and well i kinda like brands and this would put an end to em in the tobacco industry.
Some pics that shows how could they look like:
What´s your opinion ?
Those Alc companies have damn good lobbyists
besides it's hard to say where the alcohol came from(as in - what do bartenders care about pictures on bottles) or what kind it was and what actual damage(other than liver damage) it is going to cause, if any.
the damage caused by smoking is more anticipatable and more diverse imo.
so definitely an easier target to campains like this.
though i'd really love to see either of them governed in a better way, statistics on children smoking and drinking regulary are way too high to be ok with it imo. but worse on smoking, since it's imo way more addictive than drinking.
overall accedents
15.887
fatalities
399
heavily wounded
5.514
minor wounds
14.284
obviously you can't really compare passive smoking to drunk-driving, at least not realistically. true, it's comparing both side-effects, though the damage done by tabacco products is less in passive-smoking but more in the frequent consumption.
also, without sounding too heartless, i think those numbers are not high enough to require instant fixing. lung cancer patients and deaths do though. and i believe cancer treatment is more costly than pension. (besides alot of cancer patients don't get to work as long, so they get their pension, at least shares of it, sooner so them dying sooner doesn't actually save the exact amount of money)
GNAHAHA! I couldn't care less :)) Btw why stop there, let's put it on alcohol bottles as well.. and what about candy? Let's put obese kids on every single package... I want freaking tortured animals on make-up products and starving children on the tag of my cheap clothes.
Also it's the biggest tax income for every country, so keep smoking idiots. Afterall It should appear in health treatment, because I don't really like the way that brainless people are being treated from my money.
But smoke it and show the kids how tough you are!
There is no rational explanation for this.
plus for example kids these days somewhat either don't seem to care or to be aware of it (some you can't blame about the lattern tbh, some of them already start at the age of 11/12). though not the smartest thing to do, indeed.
Many if not every country already have this pictures, the "news" here is about the ugly pics on the packs, its about every package of every brand being the same color, etc.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427944/