Plain Cigarette Packaging starts Tomorrow

Tesco's selling branded packs half price tonight

''All packs must have at least 20 cigarettes so room for health warnings''

shouldn't they make them look embarrassing - pink with yellow dots or Gay naked men on the wrapper.

Just put the mark of Zorro on....would stop a few.

Bound to be a great success, like in Australia

Hopefully it will spread to many other countries. Evil tobacco company bosses are probably having nightmares about it.

I think cigars are excluded from the new rules.

Nobody has to smoke if they don't want to

I don't see tobacco companies as evil?

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I have not convinced you I see Scandinavian

I still think it is personal choice nothing to do with governments

When I was young, blokes liked cheap **** and cheap booze, some of us still do, we are still allowed sex

I hope they don't ban that...erm they have in France, one cannot pay for sex anymore

cigs

All medical experts agree smoking is bad for you, it's tolerated by governments because of money. But would estimate the cost of treating ill patients, cleaning up cigarette butts, second hand smoking, lost days at work etc, is bigger than that revenue tax on tobacco brings.

I would disagree, the revenue on tobacco far exceeds that.

What about peoples choice, or do we want to live in a 1984 society?

No wonder people eat too much, not a lot else for them to do.

May 20, 2016 -- 7:10PM, ebulGery wrote:

Nobody has to smoke if they don't want toI don't see tobacco companies as evil?

They are very evil. It's just less obvious here in Europe where they face tough regulation.

DR C.

Love the logic behind that one.

Junk food manufacturers told to decrease pack sizes to reduce consumption

Tobacco manufacturers told to increase pack sizes to, er, reduce consumption

How will i know if the bird i want to chat up smokes Mayfair ?

Just arks him ?

We try to stop smoking

We now have an obesity epidemic, diabetes 2
because people now eat instead of smoke
Are we getting anywhere?

I know smoking is very addictive, but I believe people should make their own choices
To me this is more important

Cigs are expensive, young people can only afford packets of 10, so the minimum has been raised to 20
That is the logic of it

....can't fit the nasty warnings on a pack of ten.

Tax on cigs to fund their nhs treatment aint working cos of duty free and bootleg ciggies. 

Best to ban the lot and let everyone smoke weed instead.

You could buy a single cigarette with a match to light it with from the shop right next to the local school where I lived as a kid.

These days the kids will simply split the cost between them and buy a pack of 20 anyway if they haven't got enough for a whole packet themselves.

Spot on Doc ,Plain packaging a waste of time imo ,you cant even see them in most supermarkets ,people still buy them .

Saw some kids filing out of school yesterday.

One kid smoking crossing the road, followed by another vaping!

It wasn't a shock to see a 16 year old puffing away, but the kid with the vape thing - lol.

Make it that you cannot buy cigarettes unless you are 18. Issue every person that wants to smoke a photo card saying they can purchase cigs to smoke. so the following year the new 18's cannot buy cigarettes - the would be refused. five years later only the youngest smoker would be 23, ten years after that 33. Phasing out cigarettes at stores. (of course there will always be counterfeit sellers). But no mainstream cigarettes.

Always amazes me that the same people who want to remove the black market in drugs (by making them legal) are the same people who want to encourage a black market in cigarettes by doing the opposite.

They should legalise everything. Cigarettes should sell at their market price.

It is not a clean or particularly healthy habit but it is peoples choice.

We are walking blindfold into a 1984 society where no personal choices will remain.

I saw an interview with some woman on the national news, don't know who she was but obviously something to do with this new legislation. The interviewer asked her that by banning cigarettes in 10 packets could it not encourage people to possibly smoke even more? she just said well yes