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New packaging on cigarettes

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Susiesoap7 · 19/02/2017 16:34

To any smokers out there, have you noticed any difference in the cigarettes in the new packaging to the old packets?

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UnbornMortificado · 20/02/2017 16:29

Not in the same way drugs do.

You can argue they release some level of "feel good chemicals" but they don't get you high or mellow you out, at least not physically. It's more that your brain chemistry alters to make you crave them.

Although that is the nicotine not the tobacco so the same can be said of patches, gum etc.

fairweathercyclist · 20/02/2017 16:36

If you are going to get cancer you are going to get it no matter what you do

So not true. Every relative I know on both my side of the family and my husband's who has had cancer, smoked (admittedly my grandmother was 91 when she died). The rest of the family have not. I simply don't believe that it's a coincidence.

There are always exceptions. But you might as well make the odds as much in your favour as you can. I simply don't understand why anyone under the age of about 40 smokes. It's bad for your health and the people around you, bad for your teeth, makes you look 20 years older than you are, and makes you stink. Oh, and it's really expensive as well. So much to recommend it as a leisure activity!

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 20/02/2017 17:14

I'm 55 and the research showing that smoking causes cancer was already out there and much in the news when I was born. I am a deeply risk-averse person and (probably very unusually) always have been, so I never had the slightest urge to start smoking when I was young. It helps that I have never been cool or had any chance of being seen as cool. Grin

Just like every other product, cigarettes used to be packaged by the marketing departments. They were doing everything in their power to build up brand loyalty. The point of plain packaging is to reduce that.

makes you look 20 years older than you are Yup. My aunt is a lifelong smoker and in her early 80s is housebound and in far, far worse health than my dad, her brother, who is older but much more active and on the ball. He gave up smoking in his 50s.

FourToTheFloor · 20/02/2017 17:16

Unborn it is a drug. Don't you minimise it! And you know yourself as an ex smoker what you would be like if you couldn't get your fag in when you wanted it.

UnbornMortificado · 20/02/2017 17:25

Don't be fucking stupid.

Well I haven't mugged any old ladies or sold my granny's telly like my DH's cousin did who was actually a drug addict.

The two are not comparable.

Gowgirl · 20/02/2017 17:59

I've just realised why my ciggie tastes odd! They are lights......bloody packaging is a menace...

FourToTheFloor · 20/02/2017 18:04

Yes that's because herion isn't sold in shops like cigarettes are, for the time being.

And don't tell me to stop being fucking stupid. You're starting to sound a bit fucking dim youself.

UnbornMortificado · 20/02/2017 18:20

And don't tell me to stop being fucking stupid

I was being nice, I deleted my first response Smile

ProudBadMum · 20/02/2017 18:23

The least stressed on this thread are actually the smokers.....

Wonder why that is? Hmm

UnbornMortificado · 20/02/2017 18:24

I'm counting down the weeks...

31 to go.

expatinscotland · 20/02/2017 18:29

' WTF, she can't see the obvious problem with that?'

Nope, in true hairy-handed fashion, with an OP in bits that not even her own GP surgery had bothered to read her notes and realise why she was not breastfeeding. She hadn't even thought she was able to conceive because she was warned the chemo would render her infertile. Another poster had had an emergency hysterectomy after the birth of her 3rd child in her early 20s and was still asked when her last period was over 20 years later.

backtowork2015 · 20/02/2017 18:37

If you are going to get cancer you are going to get it no matter what you do.

Rubbish! 90% of people who die of primary lung cancer are smokers. It's a horrible death, you won't just slip away in your sleep, you will die fighting for breath. And you will carry on believing it won't happen to you until it does. Just because some mythical aunt smoky sally didn't succombe doesn't protect you.

apacketofcrisps · 20/02/2017 18:40

Addiction to nicotine is an addiction Hmm how can you claim otherwise??

FourToTheFloor · 20/02/2017 18:50

Fucking dim wasn't my first choice of words to describe you either.

Look at us playing nicely hey.

ProudBadMum · 20/02/2017 19:02

My aunt didn't smoke or drink and got 3 types. So yeh it will get you no matter what you do

UnbornMortificado · 20/02/2017 19:35

expat wrong thread? Grin

backtowork2015 · 20/02/2017 19:36

If she had smoked chances are it would have been 4

Gowgirl · 20/02/2017 19:38

Christ almighty, 3/4 you're going to die of something Grin

SuperBeagle · 20/02/2017 19:43

My godmother has been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. She's in her 50s. She's smoked all her adult life. She regrets it bitterly now that she is slowly (and painfully) dying and cannot even use her last months of life to do the things she wants as she's constantly in pain and is constantly exhausted.

But it's a bit late to regret the choice now.

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 20/02/2017 19:57

Yes, we're all going to die of something. Personally I'm doing what I can to try to minimise the chance that I die of cancer, stroke, diabetes or heart disease, none of which are pleasant ways to go.

ProudBadMum, just a thought about your non-smoking aunt - did she grow up in and around smokers? A lot of people did, including Roy Castle, who died of lung cancer but had never smoked. It was explained in his case as the result of years spent performing in smoke-filled clubs and pubs.

backtowork2015 · 20/02/2017 20:15

Flowers Superbeagle.
Proudbadmum, you should stop being so blasé and take heed, this could be you and your family in a few years

PidgeyfinderGeneral · 20/02/2017 21:46

My grandfather died from lung cancer. He and my nan were lifelong smokers (though she died of something not related to smoking so not sure how that fits in to the anti-smokers' agenda).

Genuine non-goady question here, do the anti-smokers on this thread feel that by posting how much they all hate smoking/we are all going to die/disgusting/vile/smelly etc, think their actual words will make a smoker on the thread give up?

In fact, again, genuine curiosity here, has anyone given up smoking because someone else has lectured them about it?

ProudBadMum · 20/02/2017 22:23

Oh yes I'll tell her sons to be grateful it was only the 3 that killed her, not 4...

My mums sisters all smoked apart from aunt and mum. Nanna smoked on and off.

It could be and it could not be my family. I just have lost many people to things not smoke related that smoking doesn't phase me as a health risk. I'm ok with it.

I'm going to die anyway so I do what I enjoy.

UnbornMortificado · 20/02/2017 22:34

I don't think that I'll live long enough for cancer to be an issue.

Chances are either my past serious
addiction issues or something related to my MH will get me first.

If I see my DC's into adulthood that will do me, I'm on borrowed time as it is tbh.

paddyplaistow · 20/02/2017 23:02

I haven't had a cig for 3 weeks now. Bought a vaping kit and it's great. I haven't seen the new cig packets, but that wouldn't have stopped me for sure. It was the horrible couple who own the corner shop who made my decision. They aren't getting my money any more. I never felt any health problems on my 20 a day, and tbh, don't feel different now..but ye gods I do feel better
.My DH has alzheimers, and I trusted them to be well, kind, even normal, but he was being shortchanged when he went to buy his paper. I went with him, waited outside, so he had a modicum of "independence" It was just the one thing that changed my way of thinking.
Maybe it was just time to stop.

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