That is interesting! Though I think that studies since the plain packaging was brought in have concluded that, overall, smoking rates have dropped. Not sure about non-smokers being dissuaded or deciding to not take it up because of the packaging. Do know that it’s never occurred to me to not smoke in public because of some kind of embarrassment about the package - I only smoke in public where it’s permitted, so tend to joke about being herded away to smoking areas as a ‘social pariah’.
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If they ever manage to come up with a color that’s actually ugly, watch the cigarette case market jump.
Yeah, it seems like tobacco is headed one way, and marijuana is headed the other. And of course alcohol gets a pass entirely. I don’t get it. Who is funding the war on tobacco?
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The people who put the disturbing images on tobacco packaging are just the sickest perverts. You wanna look at that shit, there’s websites I’m sure. Get outta here ya fucking sicko and take your mutilation porn with you.
Incidentally the worst colour ever is that neon pink/orange mix that isn’t quite one or the other and not decent enough to be called porange or oink. The next worst colour is pants-left-in-wash which can differ but is generally “was once white and is now a rinse-y blue”.
One of the greatest mysteries of the universe is why manufacturers of sports cars have metallic shit brown on offer as a color choice. For sedans, and the like, it’s less mysterious. Mix all the other colors together and see what you get - oh, metallic shit brown, I’m sure someone will buy this sparkly turd.
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I’m actually glad that they have it as an option. It makes it easy to know who to avoid.
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I can’t say with any certainty that I’ve ever met anyone with a sports car of that color. I’d love to know if you have, and what you learned of the car owner.
I don’t think I ever have personally, but I feel sure that anyone who drives a sports car that color either wears Ed Hardy t-shirts or wears plaid pants with a white belt.
One of the sporty Range Rover models comes in that color. Whenever I see one on the road, I find myself wondering what series of poor life choices caused the driver to end up with that car.
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Isn’t part of the point of having a ludicrously expensive, impractical vehicle and then getting it in an awful colour to demonstrate that not only can you afford it, but that you also don’t need to take it seriously?
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Hmm…I’ve known two people ever who wore plaid pants with a white belt, one of which was my grandpa who was equally horrified by metallic shit brown (he drove a huge, blue 1976 Buick for a good portion of my formative years). The other was my dentist, and he kinda seemed like a Caprice Classic kinda guy, but I could totally envision him having chosen metallic shit brown out of the brochure on purpose, though.
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That’s basically the old standard brown in MS Paint in the old Windows 3.1 days, isn’t it?
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Today I learned that my monitor needs to be calibrated, or someone’s does. That box is nowhere near my pantone book… Fuck me, what have I sent out recently, and was the color crap?!?
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Sorry, but cigarette packets are kinda getting to be a lot like those novel but useless McDonalds collectables.
“Hey that brown Austin’s got balls!”
As I see it, the rejuvenated push for legalization/decriminalization of cannabis is partly due to its opponents dying off and partly due to the fact that more and more Americans are realizing how totally screwed they are and can no longer rely solely on alcohol to temporarily tranquilize themselves.
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I can answer that one. Cigarettes in Australia are taxed at 13.7%. Furthermore, it is a rapidly increasing tax rate. Australia has got the most expensive cigarettes in the world. What costs $6 in US costs $16 in Aus (Using US -> US currency. So no conversion. The actual figure is closer to Aus$20)
Plain packaging laws are one part of the approach to reducing smoking numbers in Australia. Increased costs of cigarettes is another part.
Furthermore, plain packaging isn’t just the box. It also relates to display. No cigarettes are allowed to be on display in stores. All most be kept in a locked, plain cupboard/drawer.
Since this went into effect (Plain packaging + cost hikes) There has been an 11% reduction in smokers. Most importantly, the greatest area of improvement is the reduction in new/young smokers. That’s fallen massively! Fewer kids are taking up smoking now than in the 90s.
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Saga Noren might disagree:
http://www.cinevox.be/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/bron-broen-s2-promo-b-800x594.jpg
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Sometimes it is possible to rock ugly.
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At our doctor’s office when I was a child, I would be subjected to a an injection and given a lollipop. Ironically, today, I don’t mind injections, but can’t stand lollipops. In other words, something, something, association.
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Wow. That has to be the ugliest 911 ever made. That’s “algal blooms in sewage runoff” green.
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