a few years ago the FDA stopped a cigg company from putting a Skull & CrossBones on the packets... they said they were afraid it would be tooo cool.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.
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”.
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.
This is so blissfully lame. It is guaranteed to make cigarettes appear more dangerous and "cool." I don't know about any other steps they are taking, but this one, measured by itself, will be shown to be a factor increasing adolescent smoking.
On the bright side, maybe this campaign offers staffing opportunities for Health Ministerette Dawn Primarolo,
If anyone feels like marking my words, by all means go ahead.
It’s too bad that people can’t figure out for themselves that they’re being lured into destroying their health by slick marketing and fancy packaging. The alcohol industry is the same. Sales would plummet if all alcoholic beverages came in the same standard bottle with a plain black and white label printed in Times New Roman font, and if people weren’t swamped with ads suggesting that their lives would be ever so much more fun if they were drinking such-and-such brand.
“Protecting children from smoking is a government priority”
NO, No it is not! How about protecting children from islamic invasion via immigration? terrorism? rampant liberalism?
Good God Almighty,,,,,another day dawns....another insane idea comes to light........it just NEVER ends....we’ve got people flippin’ out because they think GWB is coming after them to kill them, now we have whackjobs who think brightly colored cigarette packs are the reason people smoke......what next? Never mind, I’m afraid to ask.....
a few years ago the FDA stopped a cigg company from putting a Skull & CrossBones on the packets... they said they were afraid it would be tooo cool.