foxie/LINK1
survey of outdoor smoking habits) suggest that plain packaging has indeed made cigarettes less desirable to smokers and has increased thoughts of quitting.

However, an online survey of smokers carried out in two phases, the first a month before and the second six to eight weeks after the introduction of the plain packaging rules, suggests that the impact of the rules on quitting tendencies is probably small.

Moreover, many smokers engaged in defensive behaviors such as covering up health warnings, and did not report changing brands or a significant increased tendency to quit.

This finding was corroborated by another survey that found that in the year to July 2013 the proportion of smokers in Australia had not declined since the introduction of plain packaging.>>

WHY..BECAUSE IT GIVES US A BENIFIT*
A LIFT..SOMETHING WARM..IN ICECOLD HANDS.
THE COMFORT OF THOSE WITH LIFE BURTDENS AND TERRORS
TO LOOK AT THAT SPECK OF SUBSTANCE TRANSITIONING..INTO DUST

THE MIND IMAGRY OF THE SMOKE DRIFYING THROUGH A SUNBEAM
SHADING THE RISING DUST MOTES.OF OTHER HOUSEHOLD DSUSTS WE ARE INHALING[BUT MINE GET FILTERD OUT/BY MT SMOKE

why are you ignoring the numbers32 non smokers get pluricy..from industry
the general/populayion[including smokers or just smokers was 19..

32 non smokers dead
19 SMOKERS DEAD
EXPLAIN WHY?

FIRST LINK=FAIL

Foxy, that article shows what's always been known by the movers for plain packaging ..... that plain packaging is not *THE* one and only and final answer. Plain packaging is merely "part" of the overall strategy. Whether the reduction in smoking as a result is large or small, is not the point. It's been proven it works, all but the blind can see that.

No other recreational drug in the world has caused more direct deaths than tobacco over the decades.

Decent society now needs to embark on an equally strong campaign against the recreational drug alcohol. Alcohol is *THE* recreational drug that causes more heartache, misery, dysfunction, violence and societal $$$$$$ debt than any other recreational drug known to mankind. If all alcohol use ceased immediately, and the alcohol industry was closed permanently, the cost of that would be *MINISCULE* compared to the SSSSSS profit gained from not having the harmful societal consequences from the use of this drug.

But banning recreational drugs in that way *NEVER* works. Prohibition in the USA in the 1920s proved that. The way around this is to demonise alcohol and tobacco, make it a *DUMB* thing to do, make it socially unacceptable, make it close to impossible to advertise these 2 harmful drugs .... there's literally hundreds of similar measures that could be taken if society has the will and self respect to do it.It's already started regarding tobacco, but still has a long way to go. Alcohol must also be treated the same way that tobacco is now treated.

The druggies, and the supporting industries, love their drugs and the SSSS they get from it. It's times for the druggies to take the backseat, and finally understand their drug habits of alcohol and tobacco are unacceptable and cost our nation multiple *BILLIONS* of lost dollars due to the harmful results of these 2 recreational drugs.

As do all multinational companies the tobacco industry too is depentent on the perpetuation of simple mentality. Plain packaging & the lack of a national service is not addressing the poor educational standard.

That plain packaging has any effect has yet to be shown. The rates of reduction prior to plain packaging was about 4% p.a. or exactly what the ABS showed. Which means that at the very best the plain packaging had no effect. If the reports from other sources are even partially correct, the PPL was a disaster.

Poor old Shadow Minister doesn't even bother to read peoples' posts .... posts that give the statistical proof that plain packaging has indeed worked. He doesn't want the empirical facts get in the way of his little "story".

According to our newsagent the purchase of cigarettes has not dropped even though another outlet has opened which is doing rather well also.
Then again, education in our region is extremely poor & 99% of public servants posted here don't actually give a damn about anything here apart from their allowances.