You can take a guess what it is about and you'd be right. It helpfully tells us how plain packs for tobacco products will 'protect children'.
It is, predictably, bollocks. Plains packs will not make jot of difference to tobacco take up. People start to smoke because they see others doing something that seems to be enjoyable and want to sample that same feeling. Some don't like it and never smoke again, some like it and carry on, of those some will quit others won't. The packaging makes no odds. That is why Tobacco companies are so relaxed about the ban.
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| Strangely, I do not feel an urge to race out and buy a pretty pack of fags! |
Children are are not induced to start smoking because of pretty packs and adults won't continue to smoke a brand they don't like because they like a logo.
Already more and more people are starting to use cigarette cases, Pipe smokers and roll your own smokers have used a plain pouch for decades, there's no branding or warnings on them. Yet.
I have three cases*;
A brown one for everyday use.
A black one for formal use.
A silver one for the small cigars that I occasionally smoke.
* I first started using a case because my smokes would get squashed in a trouser pocket or would fall out of my shirt pocket, usually into a puddle, so it was a case of pure pragmatism. That said there is something quite elegant about a cigarette case in certain circumstances.
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