Posted on 05/31/2008 4:55:47 AM PDT by RouxStir
Distinctive packaging for cigarettes may be replaced by plain black and white lettering under Government plans to reduce smoking, it has been announced.
The Government has plans to ban brightly coloured packets, remove cigarettes from display and stop the cheap option of a pack of 10 A red packet of Marlboro or a gold Benson and Hedges wrapping could become a thing of the past after research showed children easily identify brands and link smoking to being "cool".
Along with putting cigarettes under the counter in shops, banning packs of 10 and restricting vending machines, it is one of the key proposals in the latest document on tobacco control from the Department of Health.
Ministers are pleased with the success of the public smoking ban and increasing the legal age for buying tobacco and are keen to introduce more measures to stop people smoking and prevent children from taking it up.
The new consultation, launched to mark World Tobacco Day, also includes banning the advertising of cigarette papers and other smoking "paraphernalia".
About a quarter of the adult population smokes and rates are dropping very slowly.
Women are not quitting as fast as men and there are signs that a drop in lung cancer cases in women has stopped and may even be rising.
Smoking increases the risk of cancers, heart disease, stroke, emphysema, bronchitis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
More than 200,000 under-16s start smoking each year and are three times more likely to die from cancer than those who start in their 20s.
Dawn Primarolo, the public health minister, said: "Protecting children from smoking is a government priority and taking away temptation is one way to do this.
"If banning brightly coloured packets, removing cigarettes from display, and removing the cheap option of a pack of 10 helps save lives, then that is what we should do."
Why not just ban them?
</sarcasm >
hundreds of millions of pounds are collected each year (strictly from smokers) to help fund their “free” national health service from cigarettes..can’t wait to see what they’ll raise taxes on (for everyone) to make up for the revenue loss
It a bit saddening to watch the formerly great UK sink ever deeper into the ‘big brother’ morass.
We need a reawakening.
If I lived there I’d START smoking just to escape the tyranny that much sooner.
The campaign against cigarettes is following a similar campaign waged against heroin and cocaine in the early part of the 20th century. Eventually cigarettes will be banned once they have been totally vilified. Then the narco kings will have a whole new revenue stream selling illegal cigarettes.
To laugh at for the weekend ping.
Dawn Primarolo, the public health minister, said: “Protecting children from smoking is a government priority and taking away temptation is one way to do this.”
BAN TEMPTATION!
This is discrimination against “packets of color”.
The Brits care more about the color of cigarettes
and the exact hour garbage must be put out,
but they ignore that their (past) Navy and their women
(now raped or simply sold), are nothing but marks since
their Islamic onslaught. And yet the Brits do nothing.
England is the new France.
These brilliant government workers don't understand teenagers very well.
They will mark their plain wrapped cigs with marking to make their own brands to identify themselves as cool.
"If banning brightly coloured packets, removing cigarettes from display, and removing the cheap option of a pack of 10 helps save lives, then that is what we should do."
Locking them in a closet until they're 35 would help "save lives" too. Oops, I better shut up. The goofy Brits may do it.
Maybe they shouldn’t ban them, but just keep them apart from each other. They could have stores that sell the plain packets and other stores that sell the ones with the fancy labels. Then they could ensure that you don’t bring your children into the wrong store.
They could put signs on the doors that say “White” and “Coloured.”
Will they carry the “Victory” brand?
I believe the “Empire’s” decay is directly attributable to their assimilation of third world ‘citizens’ and immigrants who have swelled the voting rolls and captured the ‘rule of the masses’ contingent of their main stream media. I say assimilation because England willingly accepted them, but in truth it is the ingressors who have assimilated the UK.
If cigarettes are bad they should be be made illegal. But the government refuses to do that because they can use cigarettes to condition us to the ever increasing government intrusiveness and fascism.
Is it a requirement for anyone who has any kind of government position in the UK to have their brains sucked first? Sure seems that way.
Getting close to that in this country too.
They (government) would have no way to tax the products then. How can they tax something that would go underground to a black market? Our famous experiment with prohibition proved that. And, in the end, isn’t it ALL really about power to control others’ lives and take their money while they’re at it?
Make that “have their brains sucked out first?”
Need coffee...
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