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Originally Posted by Redway
It won't though. As has been said countless times, you'd have to be pretty thick to buy cigarettes because of what the packets look like. If scaring people into quitting through the use of vastly exaggerated pictures was an effective deterrent then it would've worked by now. They just need to concede that people aren't buying it and drop it already.
I smoke for a mixture of reasons but one of them certainly isn't because the packets look 'pretty', not that they're not already permeated with warnings across half the packet.
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I don't think the point is about "pretty packaging" but more about cutting back on all forms of advertising them, to the point they're not on display in a lot of shops.
Whether we like to think so or not, advertising something has an effect.