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Well… my mother died of lung cancer….
I’m in favour of removing tobacco from high visibility sales areas.. I think to say that it makes no difference how they are displayed and marketed is a bit daft personally…. companies spend millions on advertising and getting their products marketed advantageously in stores for one reason and one reason only…. to increase sales
Remove them… it might not stop hardened smokers from buying….. but it might seem less glamorous or the in thing to do for the next generation… I’m in favour of the ban…. seems I’m in the minority here though….. takes shelter in the quiet no smoking area :D
I didn’t say that I disagreed with the ban Mrs T, I just find the statement that that “young people are recruited into smoking by colourful, eye-catching, cigarette displays” a bit…oh I don’t know what the word is, naive maybe. I just don’t believe that people start to smoke because the packet is colourful and eye-catching – that might influence the brand that they choose which is why the display and marketing is important to the manufacturer, but it isn’t what gets them smoking in the first place.
Someone who wants to smoke will smoke whether you put cigarettes in plain packaging, hide them under the counter or double the price. Making them illegal won’t work either, you just have to look at the drugs industry to see that. It’s a sticking plaster, a high visibility attempt to look like the Government is doing something to tackle the problem when in truth they need the problem for revenue generation. It will make a difference to the minority but not the makority…but maybe the minority is enough for a start.
@mrs_teapot wrote:
Remove them… it might not stop hardened smokers from buying….. but it might seem less glamorous or the in thing to do for the next generation… :D
just the point i was trying to make :lol: :lol:
As I said before, since the advertisment ban came in here in Eire, there has been a huge difference in the attituted to smoking.
Just like Mrs Teapot said…….its not as glamorous as it used to be.Jen, I do also agree with you, if smokers want to smoke, they will smoke old rope if they have too.
I agree that its not the advertisment of smokes that are making young people smoke or smokers in general.But again (sorry now for repeating my self)…….The glamor has been taken away and I think in my opinion, that is what is going to help prevent a lot of teens deciding to smoke or not.
Just to add….Ive been smoking 20 years now. I was never aware of my smoking untill the advertisment ban came in. And since then, every week I make an atempt to stop :lol: :lol:wait untill the same ban comes in over your side of the pond….and then come back and post here. bet you anything you will see a difference :wink:
I hope you’re right Jenn, I would love to see a difference.
None of my friends smoke and I thought that smoking was in decline until I moved premises a couple of years ago. My shop is now just at the entrance to an indoor shopping centre. Every day I watch countless people, young and old, taking that last frantic gasp before they stub it out and go into the centre. Often there’s a cluster of young mums, chatting, smoking, breathing the cigarette smoke over their young children. The centre cleaner comes around once an hour to clean up the fag ends…tbh she could be doing it more frequently than that, it’s so bad. Anything that reduces that would be more than welcome.
You say that for you the glamour has been taken away, and I can see that for those that associate smoking with glamour the ban may have an effect. However when I was working as a hypnotherapist most of those wanting to stop smoking that came to me thought it was a pretty disgusting habit and when we dug deeper for their motivation for smoking, most started as a kind of rebellion. When we talked about the health risks and the fact they still smoked, they said that just made them feel even more of a rebel. So for those people, having to go into a shop and ask for something from under the counter, something dark and frowned upon, will just add to that sense of rebellion.
I doubt there is any one answer that would stop everyone smoking; if this change just stops some people from smoking then it will have been worth it. We’ll just have to wait and see.
when i started smoking it was the glamourous thing to do , and yes the packets did play a part too, plus the stupid notion that smoking would help you lose weight!!!
at 62 i have finally given up, i have to admit if anyone said i would be able to give up i would have said they were puddled, even i have to admit to not beleiving i could, but, i have and i hope to stay stopped , its given me my freedom back, no more going to places and thinking where can i go have a ciggy etc, and to be honest i dont miss it, but, someone once said to me everyone who gives up smoking has to do it in their own way and this is so true.
that said , im not going to be one of those ex smokers that condem smokers, i know how hard it is and to say its personal choice, actually it isnt , its an additiction :(
so , ive just done 3 months without smoking im hoping that 3 months turns into forever lol xxx
anc stopped recently too cath…. well done to you both. I tried smoking when I was a teenager and I just couldnt get the hang of it…… thank heavens for that :D
Well done Cath xx
@mrs_teapot wrote:
anc stopped recently too cath…. well done to you both. I tried smoking when I was a teenager and I just couldnt get the hang of it…… thank heavens for that :D
Did you try sucking on the cold end?
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