Give up smoking!
Jane Ellison the Public Health Minister shared “Eye-catching displays of colourful cigarette packets can encourage young people to start smoking and undermine the resolve of adults who are trying to quit. Responsible retailers already play a key part in helping to protect young people from the harmful effects of smoking.”
Ellison went on “The ending of open displays of tobacco in supermarkets has already come into effect. With only 5 months to go before the legislation applies to all shops and businesses selling tobacco, I strongly encourage retailers to start preparing for the changes now.”
While the objectives are laudable . It is vital that as many people give up tobacco as soon as possible for the very obvious reasons. And the announcement has been made during Lung Cancer Awareness Month. That being said our question is simple? Is banning the display of tobacco products a good way of promoting quitting smoking?
There do seem to be a number of methods supported by different people as the best way to ween people of the habit. You can check out some of them here.
We are keen to hear your opinions so it would be great if you could take part in our poll below.
Please do use the comment box below to add any more thoughts you may have on the subject. Should tobacco be banned totally or is it the nanny state gone to far?
Thanks very much in advance.
The rest. Saying that there is such a thing as secondhand smoke is lying to the public. Trying to convince people to rat on their friends or families and saying that smoke goes through walls in apartment buildings is ludicrous. Having informants is like starting your own SS force and Nazi regime. Hiding the products is like I said, Childish, just like the plain packaging fiasco. The companies should be draggin you through the courts everyday for interfering with their trademarks. The bars and restaurants should be draggin you through courts everyday for interfering with their private property rights. You really do not want smokers to quit and lose all those millions in taxes, do you? Are you trying to regulate e-cigarettes which might work and are you trying to enforce taxation on them because they LOOK LIKE cigarettes because they are not, they are not tobacco and they are not smoke and they do not smell. I know this must be a social engineering test which is not working either.
This sounds like the most childish way of handling things. Smokers are adults, not children and have the right to their own choices. If you were trying to convince children under 18 or 19 to quit smoking, then you will have to try harder because you are failing miserably. Having smoking ads on television and other places just keeps bringing the product back to the teenagers’ minds and the adults minds also and did you ever hear of reverse psychology where they will smoke just for the fact that you keep telling them not to and it has nothing to do with flavours. A lot of adults with their own choices like the flavours themselves. Attacking tobacco that is for the most part harmless compared to heavy pharmaceutical drugs, alcohol and heavy illicit drugs and persecuting smokers by throwing them outside in the freezing cold, rain, etc. and saying you care about smokers is ridiculous, you don’t care at all, not one bit.
They should keep their dirty hands away from Tobacco and adress the real problem : The Big Farma Mafia.
J. Christiansen
How can banning tobacco display in shops be fair if nobody knows what most people think?