They went around asking smokers what colour do they find the most unappealing. they must of voted olive colour It's hoping people smoke won't like the new packageing so they give up.
It'll have a negligable effect on that. But the real impact will be made by people not wanting to pick up the packets in the first place. Let me explain why this would reduce the number of smokers anyway.
S = Total number of smokers
C = Number of people who currently smoke
D = Number of people who used to smoke but died
N = Number of people who start smoking on a regular basis.
We'll ignore people quitting for two reasons. Most of them will relapse, and we both agree the new packaging won't have much impact.
S = C - D + N
Makes sense, right? The number of new smokers has to be equal to the number who die in order for the total number of smokers to remain constant. This law will have little impact on the number of people dieing for some time (ergo, D remains constant). However N will decrease in line with the effect of adding warnings and removing advertisements. Thus the number of smokers goes down. Since the money cigarette companies make is directly proportional to S, they don't like that at all.
Exactly, why all this senseless shit to get smokers to give up.
1) Because cigarettes are dangerous. Part of the government's job to protect its citizens. You can accept that or I'll point out the various laws in place to protect workers.
2) The Australian government pays a lot of money for healthcare. In one year, smoking was responsible for over 42,000 hospital admissions. And that's just in New South Wales. Thus cutting the number of smokers is in the interests of its own wallet in a recession. Seriously, healthcare is incredibly expensive and it gets more expensive every year.
3) You're a moron if you think that branding and advertising doesn't sway people to start smoking. Taking away the one way that cigarette companies can still advertise themselves is going to affect their bottom line. That's why they tried to stop the law going into effect.
4) Fuck the tobacco industry. Those ***** put ammonia into their cigarettes for the sole purpose of increasing nicotine uptake while claiming innocence about the addictiveness of nicotine. Fuck them in the ass with a lit cigar
3) Still don't make any sense, people start smoking because they're offered one. Who has ever brought a full packet of smokes before starting up smoking? You don't just wake up one morning and go right, today I'm going to start smoking. I'll buy a packet of Horizon as they have clouds on the packet.
Specifically, one of the reasons people start smoking is they think it's cool.
Would anything that comes out of this look cool? Also, putting health warnings on boxes (while still allowing them their branding) has been effective at reducing the number of new smokers and persuading old ones to quit. (i.e. what? These things could affect my junk? I'm quitting!). Removing TV advertising has dropped cigarette consumption in some countries by up to 17%. This will have a similar effect. Which again, is why cigarette companies fought the law coming into effect.
I was at movie world yesterday, there was more people in the smokers area as there was lined up for the most popular rollercoaster and the food court...
The only reason it seems like a minority occupation is because it's banned from smoking in public places.
No. I say it's a minority occupation because only about 15% of Australian males smoke. This means that 15% of Australian males don't smoke and thus smokers are the
minority.
Eventually, cigarettes are going to be made illegal. Get used to that fact now because it is inevitable.