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[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 48 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

I think the older people are too addicted to give a shit and younger people would just find it amusing.

I don't know how effective it has been, but the UK goes out of their way to make the packaging look really shit.

Standardised packaging with distasteful colouring, bland fonts, health warnings. I hope they do the same with vapes (although disposable vapes are being banned so that's cool).

[–] gramie@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)
[–] JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah Aus defs had some of this calibre too.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

UK ones are like that too. They're not all the same picture as above, they show some pretty gnarly stuff. I'm pretty sure I've even seen a stillborn foetus.

[–] ByteMe@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago
[–] glimse@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Looks badass, honestly. Maybe I'll pick up smoking in the UK...

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The problem is, every pack looks the same, so if you're out with mates you gotta really keep an eye on your smokes or put some identifying mark on them

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

Just find some mineral based paint and everyone picks a color, dip your smokes and the best part is you can coordinate your outfits

[–] valkyre09@lemmy.world -1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Check out my Etsy store, we sell of kinds of cigarette pack cozies.

Bring a little individuality into your smoke breaks.

Looks like I forgot the /s on this one…

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago

It's also pretty expensive in the UK. I think it was like twice as expensive compared to Estonia when I visited several years ago.

[–] matele@aussie.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago

Australia has very similar plain packaging.

When I used to smoke it became a game among my friends to collect certain packs with certain warnings on them.

Other people I knew used to transfer their cigarettes into metal cases or something else.

[–] sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org 22 points 3 weeks ago

I think we've learned that when it comes to drugs nothing is a deterrent.

[–] Justas@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

14 years! All of those old news segments from that era are absolute classics.

So that is the reason I bought myself vape recently. Siwwy me :3

[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 points 3 weeks ago

Ok but when you say "work" do you mean they'd stop smoking or smoke more, because one of those things is a social good.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 4 points 3 weeks ago

Rick has the right idea. Anything short of death is not a deterrent.

Everyone wants to be knocked out. Nobody wants to be dead.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 3 weeks ago

Looks like an ad

[–] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

This would encourage smoking amongst younger meme savvy people I think.

[–] DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Make all drugs legal and create government monopolies to maximize tax revenue.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

That’s a pretty good drawing. I could see this framed like an Andy Warhol Campbell soup thing.

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't smoke, but I would strongly consider buying one of these just because of the depiction lol

[–] sxan@midwest.social 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This makes me want to take up smoking again.

Except... Marlboros. Yuck.

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh, I wasn't going to smoke them. I would buy one for the novelty lol

[–] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

Buy the box, refill it with Camels.

I quit smoking decades ago; now I'm just waiting until, statistically, something else is going to kill me before cancer will if I take up the habit again.

[–] Remotedeck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 weeks ago
[–] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Honest question: in Europe do pouches of rolling tobacco receive a similar treatment?

I don't smoke anymore, but I kind of want a pouch of Bali-Shag with some body horror images on it.