Not really vaping related but....

[Gonloopy]

The government has just confirmed that regulations covering plain packaging for tobacco cigarettes will be in before the next parliament



https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-backs-standardised-packaging-of-tobacco

 

[Miss Pepper]

The scary photos havent worked and so now its plain packets.

How will that help?

Only way is a complete world ban....but then thete will be underground smokers and no money

 

[schlinky]

"Look! We're really doing everything we can to stop people smoking"

It's nonsense. Money is power. Humpf.

 

[vaporsizer]

Was just reading this... https://uk.news.yahoo.com/comment/t...for-the-dim-witted-and-124147114.html#1R5ZdH0

Who the hell are the gov trying to fucking appeal to ? The number of smokers is huge, nearly all are legal voters so they're shooting themselves in the foot. It's not as if they're the most popular government that ever was is it ? (Coughs until nearly dead)

 

[daz_app]

It truly is bollocks. "Won't someone think of the children? " When I started smoking, I was not attracted to the shiny packets, I just wanted to look cool (and hard). It didn't work. The thing that starts kids off smoking is peer pressure and family influence. Who pays the piper?

 

[ned]

i think someone on the forum has already mentioned this but if they are all in plain packets how do you tell a pack of genuine killers from a pack of knock off killers
i know that might sound silly but if i was paying what fags cost now, i want them to be what they are supposed to be not some fake.

oh wait a minute....... maybe thats all part of their master plan,if smokers cant be sure they are not buying dangerous fakes they will stop buying altogether.

are MPs that smart? nah

 

[Outlinez]

It truly is bollocks. "Won't someone think of the children? " When I started smoking, I was not attracted to the shiny packets, I just wanted to look cool (and hard). It didn't work. The thing that starts kids off smoking is peer pressure and family influence. Who pays the piper?

haha said the exact same thing to the wife when i saw this last night personally i think they just want to be able to say theyre doing everything they can to deter people from smoking without actually doing anything useful to prevent people taking up the habit its madness

 

[BD1]

I vaguely remember reading that tobacco related illnesses cost the NHS about £3 billion a year, but revenues from tax on tobacco is about £12 billion a year, that's £9 billion a year from smokers into government pockets.

I can't see them trying too hard to stop smoking, the £9 billion would have o be found elsewhere.

And you can guarantee there will be a tax on vaping soon once they see that it's eating into that £9 billion profit.

 

[Diche]

I vaguely remember reading that tobacco related illnesses cost the NHS about £3 billion a year, but revenues from tax on tobacco is about £12 billion a year, that's £9 billion a year from smokers into government pockets.

I can't see them trying too hard to stop smoking, the £9 billion would have o be found elsewhere.

And you can guarantee there will be a tax on vaping soon once they see that it's eating into that £9 billion profit.

Why tax it when you can just ban it seems to be the current mentality. Make it so difficult for small companies to compete that the only people able to afford to get involved are the tobacco companies, and then watch whilst their ineffectual products fail and we are back to square one.

 

[BD1]

Why tax it when you can just ban it seems to be the current mentality. Make it so difficult for small companies to compete that the only people able to afford to get involved are the tobacco companies, and then watch whilst their ineffectual products fail and we are back to square one.

I can't see how they'd get away with banning it when most research seems to suggest it's far safer than smoking, then again i can't see how they'd get away with taxing it either, won't be able to play the "cost to the NHS" card.

Anything could happen by the looks of it, but if i was in government i wouldn't want to touch vaping with a 10 foot barge pole, either choice would create uproar.