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Originally Posted by Pyramid*
You forgot about Gold, (B&H) Black (JPS) Green (Mayfair Menthol)  - the colour variety of packaging is quite broad.
Putting pictures of damaged lungs, rotting teeth, tumours on fag packets didn't make much difference...... I for one used to look at the ones with the rotting teeth - usually with the subject looking like some very impoverished soul - who probably couldn't have afforded any basic health care, never mind dental care. so the pictures always seemed misleading - they always seemed to show people who clearly had no money, or access to regular health / dental facilities.
People will smoke if they want to smoke, it really is as simply as that - and the goverenment know this all too well. It suits our ~Government to allow that to continue - whilst they pretend to want smokers to stop. All they are doing is 'seemingly' taking some action. - when in reality - the economy simply could not afford to lose the revenue from extortionately taxed cigarettes and tobacco. That's the truth. |
It's been a cynical ploy by every government in the last 40 odd years; increasing the taxes on cigarettes and tobacco to supposedly deter smoking, whilst conveniently inflating the coffers of the Treasury. The economy would probably have been in even more dire straits without the contribution of the smokers. When I was still smoking 20 years ago, price rises and pictures of diseased lungs weren't enough to put me off - it took a personal decision based on not damaging my children's health to motivate me into stopping - it was one thing to damage my own lungs but quite another to be responsible for damaging my children's lungs.
Leave smokers be so long as they don't inflict their smoke on others. They should at least be provided with smoking areas.