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The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago

Would this work as a deterrent?

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Would this work as a deterrent?

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The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago
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  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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    I think the older people are too addicted to give a shit and younger people would just find it amusing.

    I don’t know how effective it has been, but the UK goes out of their way to make the packaging look really shit.

    Standardised packaging with distasteful colouring, bland fonts, health warnings. I hope they do the same with vapes (although disposable vapes are being banned so that’s cool).

    • gramie@lemmy.ca
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      Canada’s warnings are even more extreme.

      https://images.app.goo.gl/j66GAmSPjy4ZchX46

      • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works
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        Embed photo!

        • JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world
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          Yeah Aus defs had some of this calibre too.

      • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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        UK ones are like that too. They’re not all the same picture as above, they show some pretty gnarly stuff. I’m pretty sure I’ve even seen a stillborn foetus.

      • ByteMe@lemmy.world
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        Holy shit

    • matele@aussie.zone
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      Australia has very similar plain packaging.

      When I used to smoke it became a game among my friends to collect certain packs with certain warnings on them.

      Other people I knew used to transfer their cigarettes into metal cases or something else.

    • glimse@lemmy.world
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      Looks badass, honestly. Maybe I’ll pick up smoking in the UK…

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        The problem is, every pack looks the same, so if you’re out with mates you gotta really keep an eye on your smokes or put some identifying mark on them

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          Check out my Etsy store, we sell of kinds of cigarette pack cozies.

          Bring a little individuality into your smoke breaks.

          Looks like I forgot the /s on this one…

        • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works
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          Just find some mineral based paint and everyone picks a color, dip your smokes and the best part is you can coordinate your outfits

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        It’s also pretty expensive in the UK. I think it was like twice as expensive compared to Estonia when I visited several years ago.

  • Sundray@lemmy.sdf.org
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    I think we’ve learned that when it comes to drugs nothing is a deterrent.

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    Rick has the right idea. Anything short of death is not a deterrent.

    Everyone wants to be knocked out. Nobody wants to be dead.

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    That’s a pretty good drawing. I could see this framed like an Andy Warhol Campbell soup thing.

  • pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    would work for 4channers

    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
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      Ok but when you say “work” do you mean they’d stop smoking or smoke more, because one of those things is a social good.

  • Justas🇱🇹@sh.itjust.works
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    Also, the Onion’s classic “New ad tells teens it’s gay to smoke.”

    • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOP
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      14 years! All of those old news segments from that era are absolute classics.

    • introvertcatto@lemmy.blahaj.zoneBanned
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      So that is the reason I bought myself vape recently. Siwwy me :3

  • ZeffSyde@lemmy.world
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    Honest question: in Europe do pouches of rolling tobacco receive a similar treatment?

    I don’t smoke anymore, but I kind of want a pouch of Bali-Shag with some body horror images on it.

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    Make all drugs legal and create government monopolies to maximize tax revenue.

  • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
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    I don’t smoke, but I would strongly consider buying one of these just because of the depiction lol

    • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
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      This makes me want to take up smoking again.

      Except… Marlboros. Yuck.

      • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
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        Oh, I wasn’t going to smoke them. I would buy one for the novelty lol

        • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
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          Buy the box, refill it with Camels.

          I quit smoking decades ago; now I’m just waiting until, statistically, something else is going to kill me before cancer will if I take up the habit again.

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