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Monday, 20 May 2013

Plain packaging is the way to go.


I think not.




Which brings me onto why plain packaging should be abandoned.









For those antismoker out there. Mull on this.




So what if all smokers quit tomorrow.

The government would have to make up the shortfall.




It will serve you right.


  1. It found 54.5% of packets thrown away in the town had avoided tax,

    That seems awfully high , or is it the definition of counterfeit.

    had avoided tax So more likely Duty Frees from Man in Lorry then (given the locations as well) rather than the sweepings of an Indian Factory floor crammed into a dodgy looking B&H box

  2. The quote actually says percentages of cigarette packets without tax, so presumably includes duty free and imported 'real' cigs.

  3. the point is not to get you to quit (which is nice), but to prevent kids from starting. 80% of smokers start from 14-17 years of age and if plain packaging prevents ONE of them from not starting - then it's a success.

    Unless you agree with a 14 year old picking up a disgusting addictive cancer causing habit. Then you would have other issues.

  4. Won't somebody think of the... *deep breath* chiiiilllldreeeeen???

    1. Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!

    2. You joke, but there is nothing funny about a 14 year old smoking and most likely creating a life long addiction.

      A respiratory doctor once said he never heard of a non-smoker on their death bed saying 'you know i wish i started smoking when i was young'. However he heard infinite times on the death bed of a smoker 'i wish i never started smoking'.

    3. I'll be saying "Can I have a last cigarette please".

  5. 1. Cancer Research UK have claimed that 27% of UK children will have tried at least one cigarette before they reach 16. Or, 73% are immune to wildly exciting packet designs.

    2. Cigarette cases/slips are readily available in all good on-line shops.

    1. "Cigarette cases/slips are readily available in all good on-line shops."

      If it comes to that, I'll buy the most garish one they sell.

    2. Oooh, sounds like a design competition is in order...

  6. Babe in toyland22 May 2013 at 15:56

    Just wanted to say I love the way that antismoking bigots wander into posts about smoking and, without fail, exception or apparent shame, demonstrate their humourless, unthinking, purse-lipped, drone-bigot nature. It's as if they literally can't help it. The pitiable bovine fucks.

    1. Funny, we feel the exact same way when smokers wander into an area we're standing in and decide to light up, without fail, exception or apparent shame, demonstrate their humourless, unthinking, purse-lipped, drone-bigot nature. It's as if smokers literally can't help it. The pitiable bovine fucks.

    2. See? No imagination, no wit, just parroting.

      So which areas would these be, anyway? They can't be anywhere indoors, so what exactly is the problem?

      And why have you seamlessly moved from whining about cigarette packaging and its amazing powers of enticement to whining about people smoking in your general vicinity, anyway? Or are you a different Anonymous drone to the earlier Anonymous drone?

    3. "They can't be anywhere indoors, so what exactly is the problem?"

      Who's talking about indoors? If I want to enjoy a nice day at the beach/in the park/at a sports match or just waiting for a bus and an idiot decides to sit next to me and chain smoke for an hour, HE is the inconsiderate fuck.

      Obviously if I see someone smoking at the park or beach, I'm not going to sit next to them. But nothing gives them the right to chain smoke next to me when I am doing one of these activities with my family and already there.

      Unless of course you think smokers own everything outdoors also, in which case you are the inconsiderate fuck.

  7. I always find it amusing that pro smoking blogs always attract humourless ASH trolls. They probably are vegetarian, teetotal, cycle riding, believers of AGW as well.

    The holier than thou type that, believe without questioning, everything they're told.

  8. They're prickly sorts, too - ready and willing to unleash an unbecoming (and unhealthy) stream of invective at the drop of a hat. And this even though they have 'won' the war and been given the spoils, with smokers banished to the margins (and the elements) and openly discriminated against.

    Makes me think there's an underlying psychological issue there, personally.

