Hard times for the tobacco industry: Ireland mandates plain packaging for cigarettes

Fancy a smoke?
Recently Australia became the first country. Now Ireland too is implementing a law that is the tobacco industry’s nightmare, cigarette packs with big health warnings and where the brand name may only be displayed in a small, standardized text.
The Irish Times: Plain packaging for cigarettes signed into law in Ireland
A great idea that, despite the tobacco industry’s strong opposition and disinformation campaigns, seems to reduce smoking in Australia faster than ever before.
Now Ireland is following their lead. England seems to be on its way. Who’s next?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UsHHOCH4q8
I don't know of anyone including those who do smoke who don't know the risks.
Conversely, they should use that kind of labeling on candy and soda, and starchy foods or grains that the governments have been telling us to eat for over 3 decades.
Agreed, but evidently this kind of approach does help to significantly reduce the number of those smoking... the statistics show that, as does the massive opposition by Big Tobacco.
I also agree that more needs to be done to raise awareness of the harm caused by the current western indutrialised diet.
I wonder how far in each of these industries we would need to trace, before we find that the same folks are profiteering from both? But hey, let's not knock free enterprise!
just noticed on real meal revolution, and actually to i might have seen it here.
But artificial sweeteners are in the red list. I have been using pepsi max, (which is sweetened with aspartame + acesulfame k), to put vodka in, so I again inadvertently doing lchf wrong. Anyhow, there are 3 sweeteners in the green list, but I do not know of any soft drink with those in, in the UK, I'm currently looking on google, but if anybody knows one please let me know.
Erythritol granules
Stevia powder
Xylitol granules
I tried with tonic water but no, and i can't drink it neat no way.
What needs to happen is an outright ban on smokes. Alas, with the push to make pot legal, that isn't going to happen.
Prohibition never works, pricing doesn't work, it merely creates the opportunity for crime, standard packaging will not work either, it is a Counterfeiters Charter. Counterfeit tobacco is a far more perilous prospect than regulated tobacco. Nicotine is very addictive, I don't have the answers, but I do know vaping is safe and infinitely preferable to smoking. At last a nicotine delivery system that is enjoyable and works, many people like me have got off tobacco using a vaping engine, why do meddlers want to fetter it with regulation???
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hc-ps/tobac-tabac/legislation/label-etiquette/...
Many people the world over consume many things that are bad for them, say, for example pornography and/or gambling. While minimizing the availability and promotion of these vices, it really isn't anyone's business whether or not an adult chooses to engage with these things.
In the U.S. the so called drug war has been a monumental failure, destroying the lives the millions. We know from prohibition that make something "illegal" doesn't necessarily mean it won't be available, we just criminalize it.
Criminalizing behaviors and imposing high taxes creates black markets. Not a good thing.
http://www.inca.gov.br/tabagismo/economia/leisfederais.pdf