Plain Packaging for Australia

[nonico]

Dec 1,2012 plain packaging laws came into effect. Interesting to see if there is any effect what so ever.

Here's the official site:

yourhealth.gov.au/internet/...

[nsd_user663_53202]

I reckon that these government type initiatives work on the smoker's unconscious mind. They don't make you stop there and then. However, I think they have contributed to your accumulated resolve by the time you do stop.

[nonico 7 Years Smoke Free]

Psychology of youth!!!

Hi Karri

Cigarettes are kept in cabinets here too. Time will tell what plain packaging will do to the rates of smoking. As far as deterring youth is concerned, something tells me that the more we proclaim smoking as bad, the more it becomes attractive to youth.

[nsd_user663_53394]

Fabulous article in Saturdays Guardian newspaper by Suzanne Orr, a famous smoker(and journalist) who stopped a week ago. She says that the measure needed is to make smoking illegal for under 25s as very few people take it up after that age. I agree. I feel so sorry for the 13 year old child I was, I am sure that I would not have smoked if I had known all the misery it would cause me, although of course even in 1972, it was illegal for 13 year olds to smoke.

[nsd_user663_48218]

I think it's really stupid to put so much faith in things like this. We all knew the dangers of smoking and we still continued to do it. In this day and age even kids and young people know the dangers, only now they have the benefit of a lot of people telling them that quitting is the hardest thing they ever had to do. Does this stop them from doing it?

Again, with the making it illegal until after 25 - not sure that would work. How many of us started when it was illegal for us to buy them. people will always find a way round it. I think it would have to be a full on smoking ban and as much as I detest smoking I am a great believer in freedom of choice and would never want to take that decision away from anybody.

I think the key is to go the other way - make it more accessible to young people and stop frowning on it. That way they won't want to start because they would never want to do something that their parents think is cool. Make them rebel lol

[nsd_user663_53617]

Fabulous article in Saturdays Guardian newspaper by Suzanne Orr, a famous smoker(and journalist) who stopped a week ago. She says that the measure needed is to make smoking illegal for under 25s as very few people take it up after that age. I agree. I feel so sorry for the 13 year old child I was, I am sure that I would not have smoked if I had known all the misery it would cause me, although of course even in 1972, it was illegal for 13 year olds to smoke.

I agree that we need to target young people before they start - I would have thought the cost of a pack of fags these days would be prohibitive for most!

[nonico 7 Years Smoke Free]

Battle begins!!

Here is one response to plain packaging:roll eyes:

couriermail.com.au/news/nat...

[nonico 7 Years Smoke Free]

Sticker??

Hi Karri

Good questions & I have no idea what the answers are. I'll try and find out.

It's certainly laughable what is happening to the cigarette packets now

[Unah]

They have all these horrible pics on packets in NZ. Didn't make me want to stop. I put the cigs in a cigarette case.

[nonico 7 Years Smoke Free]

Not that different!!

Hi Karri

I looked today at a friend's cigarette packed & it's like the one shown on the link in my previous post. The cigarette brand is typed on the packed but in a non conspicuous manner. I suppose that the Gov't will say that instead of advertising the brand, the gruesome pictures are prominent.

As for the individual cigarettes, they have a code number typed on each on. The cigarettes in question had B105 typed on each one - I guess that is to assist them in the factory so they know which variety of a brand they're working with.

All in all - not a dramatic change at all. Much ado about nothing I would say.

[nonico 7 Years Smoke Free]

Plain packaging

Hi all

This was in the news today. At Christmas, the media gets desperate for news. In this "gem" the Gov't Health Minister is saying that plain packaging is working since people are complaining about the taste of the cigarettes.:confused:

couriermail.com.au/news/nat...