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What about rollies though? Like, I guess they'll put the new warning on the pouches, but are filters and papers going to have them too?
It's one thing to print a warning on the filter of a tailored cig, but when rolling your own the only warning is on the pouch itself.
I'd like to see more affordable NRTs tbh, make them real cheap, cheaper than they are, and I'd imagine more people would choose to use them.
Ayup, they need to cut the threatening shit. We all know. People who still smoke are either heavily addicted (and trying to get off) dealing with mental health issues or incorrigible. Current measures will. Not. Fucking. Work. On. Their. Own.
Support people who want to get the fuck off them. And cut the constant fucking sanctimonious sermonising and insistence of "see your doctor" if you give someone the choice between a $75 lecture or a $75 pack of darts guess which fucking one they're gonna pick.
Fkn aye! I can tell you the pictures on pouches do nothing to deter me. I know logically that cancer is bad and awful and just the worst, but the addiction is so insidious and ingrained it feels so intangible.
When I see nrts that cost the same as a pouch, it's obvious the government doesn't actually want people to quit. The addiction is going to win 95% of the time, coupled with a poor mental health system, up that to 99%. Of course it isn't impossible to quit, but it isn't easy and adding gorey cancer pictures to packaging is going to do nothing.
Coupled with the ease of getting black Market ciggies that don't even have that packaging, well. Someone somewhere justified their graphic design degree I suppose.
I get your point, but it's less about people that are already addicted, but reducing the number of new people taking up the habit. And if even a small proportion of smokers quit due to the imagery, that's still a win in terms of public health outcomes.
Yeah nah no one who's considering the habit is gonna be put off by the pics.
I'm speaking as someone who smoked for years before finally kicking the habit, quit people consistently get the wrong end of the stick when it comes to the psychology of people who smoke.