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So we have just heard that tobacco will be banned from display in shops within the next few years. But will it actually help stop people from smoking? What about the damage to shop income, will it do more harm than good? your thoughts please?
Mike_T says:
I know exactly how you feel, I was in a very similar situation. I remember that I was so nervous at that time and I took it out on everyone around me. I didnt know what could I do until, thanks god, I found Smoke Deter. Now I can look back and laugh on myself and in the same time I remember how helpless I was. I hope that I'll never be in the same situation again
Have speed cameras stopped everybody speeding?
The short answer is the ban will make no difference whatsoever to people stopping smoking. The ban on smoking in all pubs has only resulted in the loss of many pubs.
This ban on displays is merely the formality which leads to the already discussed "licence to purchase tobacco products" without which you cannot purchase them and for which you will have to register. The Government will then have a data base for every smoker in the UK – Just another cog in the big brother surveillance machine.
As for the dangers of smoking – I liked the one last year where after the blanket ban (not the original idea outlined in Labour’s 2005 manifesto under which there would have been a freedom of choice for pubs to be smoking or nonsmoking) was imposed the health experts said obesity was actually more dangerous than smoking – talk about "make your fecking minds up". Strange though that more people die from obesity in the UK than "smoking related diseases" and the average cost per obese patient to the NHS is about £500,000 per year.
no. tobacco has become ingrained in our culture, either people are goin to smoke it or not. advertising has little effect
nope
No but it may help people to forget to buy then and stop kids seeing then so much and starting to smoke.
IThey are all steps forward to stopping smoking.
Probably not… they need to ban tobacco altogether. If marijuana is illegal, tobacco should be too.
no not people that are addicted but it could stop some kids
No but it will mean less encouragement on children to start. The less advertising that is done on cigarettes the better!
No, that’s ridiculous. I understand the motive to reduce tobacco use, but I can’t imagine what disallowing people from displaying the different brands available would accomplish other than make people more likely to buy the common brands.
No. My mother has been a smoker since she was about 20 (she’s 50 now) and taking away the pictures has done nothing, and it will never affect the way she smokes, but it might prevent little kids and teens from seeing it as ok and perhaps stop them from smoking, but I doubt it. Smoking is like drinking, it’s always gonna be there unless it’s banned completely from being sold and even then it’ll find a way to come back illegally and independently.
Tobacco is addictive so no it won,t stop people smoking by not having it on display , you can now order cigarette’s and tobacco online at much cheaper rates than shops.
Health Secretary Alan Johnson said the primary aim was to reduce smoking among 11-15-year-olds in England and Wales, an estimated 200,000 of whom were regular smokers in 2007. It is mainly to stop young people seeing cigarettes advertised and also to reduce impulse purchase from smoking adults.
Shops will certainly be affected, particularly corner shops/newsagents. Johnson said that corner shops would need to diversify anyway as smoking rates dropped, and stressed that the government’s overriding priority was to reduce smoking, which he called "the biggest public health risk".
Johnson is expected to promise a "fully inclusive" implementation, with all possible help given to businesses to deal with any impact.
The Tories have complained that there is no evidence a ban would cut smoking rates and say it could "destroy local corner shops and newsagents that are already suffering now".
The Liberal Democrats have warned of a potential increase in the buying and import of foreign cigarettes.
Honestly I think It wouldn’t Help at all its everywhere..And I dont think it would damage the shops income.
No it won’t change smoking habits at all. A total ban on tobacco is what is being built up to but just like the ban on booze in the 20s and the ban on weed it will be a miserable failure that will kill far more people than smoking ever did.
I am a smoker and to be honest it is this anti-smoking hysteria that ends any thoughts I’ve ever had of quiting. The anti-smoking crowd has become so vile in my opinion I’d rather be boiled in oil than ever have to be around such people. It creates an instinctive rebellion against them as well.
So if anything banning cig displays only makes it mysterious to the novice or non-smoker thus making them more likely to smoke than if it’s an everyday thing.
The stopping of displaying tobacco products in shops, is not designed to stop people smoking.
It is designed to stop people being able to easily take up smoking.
For example, lets make a character Frank who has just turned 18. At the moment, one of the things he may do is go down to the corner store see all the smokes, flash his ID and buy a packet while buying his first legal drink.
If the tobacco products were not displayed, it is very likely he would had purchased his beer and then went to his party. Not even given it a thought about purchasing the smokes (if this was far enough in the future he may not even know you could buy smokes from liquor stores, because he had never seen smokes there).
I think a method like that was used at the turn of the 20th century to wind down the sale of some Opium products, that were sold across chemist counters, and people were addicted to.
I don’t think it will work people are still going to by it.
Here’s one to think about, "lung cancer", doesn’t stop people from smoking, Will they have to hide the beer to?
god no. Whoever proposed that idea should shoot their kneecaps off
I don’t see why not, after all, when cannabis was made illegal (and thus not openly advertised) in 1928 it clearly prevented people from smoking it. The effect can be seen to this day, where now only about 10% of the population of the age range 16-59 use it.
And just as with the smoking ban in pubs, where the closure rate has jumped from 4 per week to a mere 5 per day, I’m sure that we’ll be reassured that there won’t be any financial impact on retailers.
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It will make absolutely no difference to the number of people who smoke, but it will cost shops income, principally because smokers won’t actually know what shops sell any more.
Madness
Good I’m all for it, out of sight out of mind. Its like if you shop online you only buy what you want, but if you go to the supermarket and see things on display it does tempt you to buy more even if you had no intentions to buy it in the first place. This campaign is targeting more towards young people and deter them from smoking. Why do people put money over health? Just think for a second how much it cost the nhs for treatment for smoking related illnesses and consultations? My friend and neighbour’s husband was diagnosed with lung cancer last Friday, you should see how he is suffering now from the effects of smoking for 40 years! That itself is off putting, he has just realised that all the tv ads have just hit home! Sad really.
No, will power and a lot of luck got me off 60 a day, no advertising made any difference, do I feel better for it ? not really other than my breathings a little better, ive put on over 2 stone still love the smell of it,
and Im getting to be a miserable old git as i get older
In the UK, right!? That made ME very mad!! Whatever happened to Free Enterprise!? No, it will NOT stop people from smoking! You will see the Blackmarket wil begin to show it’s face again! If you want a pack of cigarettes, I can see us smokers all trotting down to the corner, and wait for the Blackmarketeer to come around! Just watch out for them thar cameras and the cops! Might be a good idea to wear a disguise! LOL!!! There’s more than one way to skin a cat!!! I think it is absolutely stupid of the Government! Don’t they have better and more important things to do such as catch criminals and Drug dealers!!!?? I know what they say, smoking is bad for your health, but, isn’t that the individual right to smoke if he wants to!? It’s HIS money, and HIS life, and if he wants to die happy, so be it!!! Believe me! NOBODY is going to stop me! So there!
Don’t be hypocrits!
Prohibite the tobaco on advertisment or in pub can’t eliminate this danger!
All states want the taxes on the tobacco!
Tobacco is one of the first step to the illness or to the "soft" drug.
No hypocrisy we must declare: the tobacco is definitely illegal!
No. If people want to smoke then they will. Putting cigarette’s under the counter will not change that.
No i don’t think so in fact it could make it more attractive to kids as what’s hidden or forbidden can be attractive to rebellious youth. The only real answer is a complete ban which will not happen because the government gets a lot of tax. Also the policy of banning smoking in pubs and clubs was ill thought out when its a legal product it has an impact on small business as many of the older generation are use to having a ciggy with there pint. What should of happened was a license for pubs and clubs which want to be a smoking venue or a smoking room. This country is becoming more a police state every day its time to fight back for our liberty.
No and it won’t stop children smoking either it’s just more petty rules and regulations from the Nanny State, it’s about time this government got it’s priorities right.
Off course it won’t.
i don’t think so.
what i don’t understand is if cig are so dangerous and course all types of cancer and contain all kinds of poison then why oh why are they still legal? or a safer kinda of ciggeratte is made (not sure if it’s possible or not!).
i’m by no means an anti smoker. choicex