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Plain Packaging For Cigarettes...at Last !
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We should have got rid of all those pretty, shiny, silver and gold boxes years ago, so its well overdue. ( I know TTT will be cheering this morning ! ) The tobacco lobby has had the upper hand for far too long.
We should have got rid of all those pretty, shiny, silver and gold boxes years ago, so its well overdue. ( I know TTT will be cheering this morning ! ) The tobacco lobby has had the upper hand for far too long.
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Mikey, you have saved me a lot of typing, I agree 100% with all your comments above including the JPS racing car! Plain packaging has had an effect in Australia and I think we need to adopt anything that consigns this disgusting habit to history. Probably won't stop the hard core like ummmm but I think it will slow take up and discorage the perhperal smokers. It will slowly become socially unnacceptable. No need to prohibit but I would say the next phase is to make it prohibitively expensive, tinkering around with a few pence each budget is not cutting it, now £50 a pack? Even ummmm would have to cut down to 60 a day. ☺
Re. the cannabis v. tobacco debate - the perspective of society is less to do with the parallel harms, and more to do with the cultural status.
Tobacco, like alcohol, is an inbuilt aspect of our culture, and therefore difficult to demonise because it is so widespread.
Cannabis is a relatively recent phenomenon, and is rooted fairly and squarely in its negative 'feckless youth' position in the view of society as a whole.
Cannabis is something engaged in by dubious young people who wear their hair at a challenging length and would rob their grannies to get the money for their soon-come heroin addiction - tobacco is something your granddad used to puff on with his pint, lovely old guy, salt of the earth.
The use of tobacco will continue to fall because it is increasingly culturally unacceptable, and that above all will stop its use - although any measure that hastens that demise has to be welcomed.
Tobacco, like alcohol, is an inbuilt aspect of our culture, and therefore difficult to demonise because it is so widespread.
Cannabis is a relatively recent phenomenon, and is rooted fairly and squarely in its negative 'feckless youth' position in the view of society as a whole.
Cannabis is something engaged in by dubious young people who wear their hair at a challenging length and would rob their grannies to get the money for their soon-come heroin addiction - tobacco is something your granddad used to puff on with his pint, lovely old guy, salt of the earth.
The use of tobacco will continue to fall because it is increasingly culturally unacceptable, and that above all will stop its use - although any measure that hastens that demise has to be welcomed.
mikey......sorry, a bit late in answering, been out to feed the feral cats of Menorca.
Doll and Hill circa 1950, showed by a large study that smoking had deleterious effects on the health of man, particularly associated with lung cancer.
It has taken us , as a society, fifty years to act on that research and future generations will look back at that apathy with credulity.
Doll and Hill circa 1950, showed by a large study that smoking had deleterious effects on the health of man, particularly associated with lung cancer.
It has taken us , as a society, fifty years to act on that research and future generations will look back at that apathy with credulity.
ahh dave50, I knew there would be one! Whenever this comes up there is always someone who says "what about the tax" - not bad though took three pages, regulares have learnt. The true cost of tobacco is much much more than merely the health costs.
Prohibition will not work, better to make them punitively expensive and crack down hard on bootleggers
Prohibition will not work, better to make them punitively expensive and crack down hard on bootleggers
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