Cigarette package law to be voted on by MPs before election

[Kimmy]

I'm confused, and probably have misunderstood this.
But how is banning pictures on a cigarette package going to 'save lives'?

[Chippiewill]

I can for sure taste the difference between Coca Cola and Pepsi.

Which is what a lot of people in the study thought.

I'm confused, and probably have misunderstood this.
But how is banning pictures on a cigarette package going to 'save lives'?

They're not banning pictures. They're banning branding which is statistically proven to reduce smoking rates and raise the age at which people start smoking. I think people in this thread are seriously underestimating the power of branding to influence our decisions.

[-:Undertaker:-]

They're not banning pictures. They're banning branding which is statistically proven to reduce smoking rates and raise the age at which people start smoking. I think people in this thread are seriously underestimating the power of branding to influence our decisions.

So... we need protecting from ourselves by a benevolent state?

[Chippiewill]

So... we need protecting from ourselves by a benevolent state?

I know plenty of people who wish they'd never started smoking and cannot stop.

[scottish]

Which is what a lot of people in the study thought.



They're not banning pictures. They're banning branding which is statistically proven to reduce smoking rates and raise the age at which people start smoking. I think people in this thread are seriously underestimating the power of branding to influence our decisions.

I don't smoke so have no idea about the influence of a brand, but presumably people bought it because they liked that brand rather than to show off? like I know kids in school love to show off they're smoking etc, but surely a *** will do that rather than ohhhhh I have this brand?

like I wouldn't buy Cola to show it to a friend, I'd buy it because I enjoyed Cola over alternatives.

Clothes/fashion obviously completely different.

[Chippiewill]

like I wouldn't buy Cola to show it to a friend, I'd buy it because I enjoyed Cola over alternatives.

What everyone in this thread is failing to understand is that the enjoyment of all these things is due, at least in part, to the branding.

[A]

Since when did the current packets look attractive anyway, it's not about the design, it's peer pressure in schools that get most people going, if not that then stress. Packaging won't help or stop people smoking, if almost £8 a packet does not stop them, will a plain packet?

[MKR&*42]

When they say plain I don't think they literally mean just a white box. I couldn't find the article on it.... then realised it's the one I put in this thread... but it'd be something similar to this:



Bigger health warnings + the brand name is only allowed to be in a small text (like top right). Are we literally gonna go to all this effort just to make the health warning pictures bigger?

[Mark]

Surely this will make it easier for counterfeit packets to be smuggled in and sold in the UK?

[Yupt]

Surely the current "smoking will kill you" packaging is more intimidating than just plain packaging.