it's Australia but same shit

That's already bollocks

Sales were already falling, and have been for 20 years

Sorry, 30 years

https://www1.health.gov.au/internet/publications/publishing.nsf/Content/tobacco-control-toc~tobacco-sales

Forgot i'm old 🙂

16.5% in 4 years is nothing to sneeze at

I'd say the grim pictures will have more of an affect than the plain packs, personally. I don't particularly like looking at a dead bloke on my packs.

The grim pictures were introduced onto branded packs prior to the introduction of plain packs too

But there's no evidence that plain packaging caused all, or if any, of that drop

THat's all i'm saying

I'm not saying it didn't

it's evidence of some

Not really

it's wilful ignorance to suggest it's had no effect

It's evidence of it changing people's opinions

And that's perfectly fine

I do agree with Jack that it's definitely had an effect, but I don't agree that it's anything significant in the overall drop in smoking as a whole

that's the whole thing though, it's about changing opinions to try to get people off them lmao

Aye

It's changed my mind, but not to this it's a huge improvement, definitely was needed stance.

aren't they only available in 20 packs now?

Yeah, but Malboro gets around that by just packaging two regular packs together <:pepelaugh:544857300179877898>

It's funny how much you actually pick up when selling them

hmm british citizens who moved abroad only got the right to vote in 1985

alright then

I didnt realise the right to vote at 18 only came in on 1969

Like, the Malboro packs are just held together in another plastic wrap, but it's sold as 40.

the right to vote at all only came in for most people in like 1910

you mean 1918 with the first peoples representation act... but that was 21

"Representation of the People Act 1969 reduces the voting age to 18"

https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1214694057676607490

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this affects us too

It's not UK

we have dudes in iraq in the bases being attacked by iran I believe

I really do not give a fuck if the dementia addled president has been briefed

hope our troops stay safe

Boris needs to stay well out of it

I will be extremely disappointed if we follow the retarded Americans yet again into a pointless war