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Started 9 months ago by beau-jolly
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beau-jolly

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What are the arguements for and against?
As I understand it this will cover all tobacco products. In Australia they had to sell hand-rolled Cuban cigars without the authentic Habana band. Result: Only contraband cigars could be sold. No one is going to fork out $30 for a plain cigar!
I don't sell fags but I do sell quite a lot of cigars for up to £24.50 a pop. Putting them in plain tubes is not going to stop kiddies smoking.

Also: As many people smoke smuggled/counterfiet fags how f*cking easy can they make it for them?

Posted 9 months ago #
FOAD

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Perhaps cigarette packets should carry a label stating 'British Sherry,' instead. Bound to quash all desire instantly.

Posted 9 months ago #
Not Amused

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Made with the scrapings from Pickles' and Gove's belly buttons.

Posted 9 months ago #
beau-jolly

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I was thinking about a sub where a fag counterfieter bemoans the loss of trade now anyone can make a plain white packet

Posted 9 months ago #
Titus

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http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=74661

Posted 9 months ago #
NewBiscuit

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I think you might have something there BJ - "How can I make my cheap knock-off import cigarettes look like the brands, when the only thing I have to copy is a plain white packet? Previously my customers would take one look at the logo and buy my 'Marbloro' cigarettes before they even noticed that the printing was slightly smudged, but now it's much harder to convince them that they're kosher. They insist on looking at the actual cigarettes themselves, that I've hand-rolled and filled with sawdust, and then they give them back and walk away."

Posted 9 months ago #
Midfield Diamond

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I read somewhere that the packets in Australia are not actually plain but covered in Government health warnings. I foresee a whole new government department of health warning authors, health warning editors, health warning consultants and health warning managers to cope with the extra workload.

Posted 9 months ago #
beau-jolly

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Many years ago I was in Northern Cyprus (I didn't read the small print for the hotel). What used to be the ancient town of Famagusta had become the crumbling ruin of "Magusa" (and incidently, The Cathedral of St Nicolas - Santa!- had become the Lala Mustapha Mosque). Anyway...the port which used to supply what was the wealthiest city in the med was now heaving with large Russian ships all stuffed to the gunwalls with contraband fags. Equally in the desperately degenerated northern bit of Nicosia there were shops rammed top to bottom with branded fags for 10p a pack. Russian Mafia all over the place. Pure evil. I dare not even look directly at them.
Still, at least they looked like real fags - the packets not the Mafia obviously - oh Shit! what have I said?

Posted 9 months ago #
Gerontius

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If they really want to stop people smoking why not put pictures of celebrity smokers on the from of the packets.
Jeremy Clarkson
Nigel Farage
Nick Clegg
Tell me when to stop.........

Posted 9 months ago #
beau-jolly

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The Queen...

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Titus

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Oi! Don't diss my heroes! There's a risk I might end up becoming a smoker for the first time in my life.

If however they were to expose some pious, self-righteous, up-themselves Guardian reader as a smoker, that might indeed help to destroy the macho image of smoking as being something cool.

Or a picture of Ann Widdeconmbe with a fag jammed in her gob. That should destroy the tobacco industry almost overnight.

Posted 9 months ago #
Ironduke

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The Queen smeurks tabs! No way man!

Posted 9 months ago #
rikkor

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It's all e-cigarettes here all the time now.

Posted 9 months ago #
godly1966

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How are people going to be able to tell if they have a left or right handed cigar or cigarette? It's going to be chaos. I predict within a few weeks of this coming in large numbers of smokers will have poked their eyes out or even worse other peoples eyes, it will probably be known as passive poking.

Posted 9 months ago #
Al OPecia

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I wish political parties came in plain packaging. Oh, hold on, they do.

Posted 9 months ago #
Ironduke

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They will if they smoke BJ's bent fags.

Posted 9 months ago #
beau-jolly

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The Queen smeurks tabs! No way man!

Well B&H has a royal warrant. I believe she likes the odd fag now and then. Wasn't there something in the news last year reporting the queen was cross because security staff and police were helping themselves from boxes of ciggies dotted around the palace?

Posted 9 months ago #
bonjonelson

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BJ - the warrant was cancelled a long time ago.

Personally, I think there is one great solution.

Instead of adding a mandatory x% or x pence per year on tobacco duty, add a mandatory 2cm every year to the length of cigarettes until a) it become uneconomic for manufacturers to make them and b) it becomes impractical to carry them or smoke.

Posted 9 months ago #
Squudge

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They could get smaller and smaller like mobile phones - then bigger and bigger again, like mobile phones.

Posted 9 months ago #
Titus

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I think you've been smoking the same stuff as Alice in Wonderland.

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