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So apparently plain tobacco packaging is a threat to our economic recovery...

Hotfail.com · 2014-08-13 01:38:43

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/plain-tobacco-packets-will-hurt-recovery-279302.html What do ye all think? Sounds like absolute nonsense to me. Isn't the whole point of this packaging to discourage people from buying cigarettes? Which would obviously lead to a lower amount of money brought in through tax? If so then…

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#32 13-08-2014 5:51pm
Karl Stein

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y0ssar1an22 wrote: »

Why dont they just ban them?

It doesn't work and it creates a revenue stream in the black market. The war on drugs people has been a catastrophic failure.

darkpagandeath wrote: »

type 2 diabetes will be the biggest problem in the next decade.

It will, which is why governments will need to tackle it by carrying out actions like those used to reduce the number of smokers.

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#33 13-08-2014 6:09pm
shruikan2553

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Damn, I thought about starting to smoke but none of the pictures were pretty enough. Guess I'll go back to licking windows.

Im not sure which is worse, the idea of plain packaging or thinking it will actually work, never mind to the point were the loss of revenue is a problem.

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