Plain packaging on cigarettes

Buzz Killington the third · 10-06-2014 4:08pm #1

So it's been agreed and will go ahead. I don't see how this will solve anything at all and it will only help boost the black market trade. Is it really the right way to go?

nelly17 · 10-06-2014 4:09pm

I really dont think it will make a difference - I'm a smoker and it would not make one jot of difference to me

The Pheasant2 · 10-06-2014 4:11pm

Might jumpstart the revival of the cigarette case! That'd be nice

Sky King · 10-06-2014 4:11pm

I think they should include a slip of paper with an arbitrary insult in each packet of 20.

*Opens packet*

"You are a c'unt"

*Sighs*

Tiddlypeeps · 10-06-2014 4:13pm

How will this boost the black market trade? Do you actually know anybody that would be bothered finding someone to sell them cigarettes illegally because they miss the pretty packaging? I can see people going to the bother because of price, but I can't see packaging effecting that one bit.

That being said I don't think this move will achieve anything, I don't think many people started smoking because they like the pretty packaging.

Big Nasty · 10-06-2014 4:15pm

I can see them being totally banned by 2030 and going above €20 a pack in the interm.

Not as much starting smoking these days and the rest of us smokers will be nearly dead.

Buzz Killington the third · 10-06-2014 4:15pm

Tiddlypeeps wrote: »

How will this boost the black market trade? Do you actually know anybody that would be bothered finding someone to sell them cigarettes illegally because they miss the pretty packaging? I can see people going to the bother because of price, but I can't see packaging effecting that one bit.

Shops have been found to have been selling counterfeit cigarettes in the past. With this step, it will make it even easier.

To add to that point, it will make it easier and cheaper for cigarettes to be counterfeited which will make it cheaper to buy them.

OldNotWIse · 10-06-2014 4:18pm

I enjoy smoking when I drink. I dont give a toss what the government do to the packaging. If its plain boxes, so be it. If its the ones with the gruesome pictures, also cool. We joke about collecting an entire set, like we used to swap stickers. I'll give you my floppy penis for your blackened gums? Ooh cool you got the sperm one, I've wanted that for ages

Gannicus · 10-06-2014 4:18pm

Its not going to achieve anything. Sure at the moment you're not allowed display cigarettes behind the counter anyway so making companies put a plain package on it will not do anything.

RayM · 10-06-2014 4:19pm

It probably won't make many existing smokers quit, but it sends out a message to one of the most genuinely evil industries in the world that their branding, their image and their products are no longer acceptable. And for that reason alone, it's a good thing.

Karl Stein · 10-06-2014 4:19pm

In before 'wah wah nanny state turk er fegs' numb-skull reflex.

If this has the chance of reducing the harm cigarettes do it is to be welcomed. Cigarettes are a curse.

They should never be banned but advertising them should be banned across the board (including on the box).

kneemos · 10-06-2014 4:19pm

Tried a couple of those counterfeit cigerretts when used to smoke,seriously rough.

wazky · 10-06-2014 4:20pm

Big Nasty wrote: »

I can see them being totally banned by 2030.

Not a hope, worth a fortune to them in tax, which is all they care about really.

The whole health aspect is just a sideline.

Buzz Killington the third · 10-06-2014 4:20pm

OldNotWIse wrote: »

We joke about collecting an entire set, like we used to swap stickers. I'll give you my floppy penis for your blackened gums? Ooh cool you got the sperm one, I've wanted that for ages

They're the eircom call cards of the 21st century!

Lenin Skynard · 10-06-2014 4:20pm

It won't make a blind bit of difference. The biggest benefit is that maybe the health minister will actually get on with the job of fixing the HSE and move on from this time wasting crap.

Davarus Walrus · 10-06-2014 4:22pm

Plain packaging won't really do much I'd say. You'd be far less likely to start smoking if it had a picture of Ray D'Arcy on the side of the box with a message saying 'Ray says don't be a fool. Don't smoke'.

danniemcq · 10-06-2014 4:23pm

The Pheasant2 wrote: »

Might jumpstart the revival of the cigarette case! That'd be nice

Its a conspiracy orchestrated by Big Cigarette Case.

OldNotWIse · 10-06-2014 4:36pm

Buzz Killington the third wrote: »

They're the eircom call cards of the 21st century!

Haha used to run into every phonebox when I was a kid to collect used call cards

Now I'm foraging in ashtrays looking for used cigarettes :P

The Backwards Man · 10-06-2014 4:41pm

Of all the stupid reasons to start smoking, if anyone ever told me they started because of the attractive packaging I'd fcuking batter them!

jamo2oo9 · 10-06-2014 4:43pm

Tiddlypeeps wrote: »

How will this boost the black market trade? Do you actually know anybody that would be bothered finding someone to sell them cigarettes illegally because they miss the pretty packaging? I can see people going to the bother because of price, but I can't see packaging effecting that one bit.

That being said I don't think this move will achieve anything, I don't think many people started smoking because they like the pretty packaging.

White cigerette boxes would be a lot easier to make instead of the brand, logo and all of that. With white packaging, all that's left to do is forge the government sticker...

briancarrol692 · 10-06-2014 4:46pm

The black market smokes are rough and i dont think this will change anything.

mikom · 10-06-2014 4:54pm

The emperors new clothes.

Well done Dr. Reilly; have another rasher sandwich.

Alf. A. Male · 10-06-2014 4:57pm

I don't know if plain packaging will help or not, but the picture of that bloke's throat tumour is starting to affect me

OldNotWIse · 10-06-2014 4:58pm

Alf. A. Male wrote: »

I don't know if plain packaging will help or not, but the picture of that bloke's throat tumour is starting to affect me

His skinny moustache gets to me more....

gillholmes · 10-06-2014 4:59pm

i dont think this will change anything to be honest.

rathbone · 10-06-2014 6:08pm

Is there any indication of when this might come in? Is it a done deal already or is there a possibility of it being turned over?

darkpagandeath · 10-06-2014 6:13pm

Wont bother me now i gave up 2 months ago I'm on electronic now use it very little too i have not used 1 5 refill pack yet.

mopey · 10-06-2014 6:20pm

the only difference it will make is youll have to stand there a little longer in the shop while they go looking for your tobacco as you cant memorise brands by colour

cant for the life of me see the point

shopaholic01 · 10-06-2014 6:25pm

I'd actually prefer plain packaging. I might start smoking again when they bring it in!

Lu Tze · 10-06-2014 6:31pm

They should bring it in for confectionery, considering the rising child obesity problem, and children may actually be influenced by the colourful packaging.

Cant see it making any impact on existing smokers

TPD · 10-06-2014 6:58pm

OldNotWIse wrote: »

His skinny moustache gets to me more....

It's as if he's grown the moustache to try and direct attention away from the throat...

Poor fecker.

Plain packaging on cigarettes

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