To hate new cigarette packs

[MissEDashwood]

Ok so if you're generally anti smoking this thread is possibly not for you.

I'm honestly thinking of making cigarette pack cases of some kind as the images on them are grim. They make my nausea more difficult to deal with but they certainly don't put me off smoking. I always do so outside.

Currently I'm on pack 2 of the person with rotting teeth, before that there was the woman looking like she was heaving blood, the lungs don't bother me, the Liam Gallagher lookalike is just stupid, what moron holds there child and blows smoke over them. There's the one with the guy in the mortuary. Ooh one with wrinkly hands. The eyeball one freaks me out as I hate anything to do with eyes. The cigarette in a syringe doesn't bother me.

Just trying to think of others, oh my favourite was smoking will make you disabled. My Dr has said it's my choice if I smoke, it actually helps with pain, so they're not against it, I wouldn't be magically cured if I stopped.

I guess this is up for debate, but even the cheapest cigarettes are around £7/8 a pack, if you go to Duty Free, they work out to £3 a pack with customers excise and duty. So per pack, bearing in mind Marlboro hit £8 years ago, they were the ones I noticed at £3 a pack for those travelling outside the EU. The government makes a fortune.

People that have never touched a cigarette get ill, just like I have liver disease, I've never been drunk or drunk to excess for personal reasons. It's an autoimmune thing I have attacking all my body.

I just think it's stupid, the warnings were ok but plain packaging is too far. Younger persons I know who smoke generally roll their own. If I was a teenager today I couldn't afford to entertain the idea as in my day they were super cheap.

I watched this customs programme on Sky when I was super bored. For Ireland you're allowed 400 cigarettes, so 20 days worth if you smoke 20 a day. It's not inconceivable that people bring over hauls aren't going to use them themselves. Apparently places like Gran Canaria and even the US sell cigarettes a lot cheaper than here.

I believe the day were born our destiny is sorted so like me with my liver having never really drunk, I don't like the taste of beer / wine / champagne, the latter I thought was going to be really nice but I was shocked how grim it was. I had it with orange once and it was ok. I just think that the money paid in duty must make a considerable contribution to the NHS, so if you've smoked most of your life, you're pretty much paid for your bed for 1 night with 40 packs.

I might be considered ignorant, but they don't put graphic pictures on alcohol, that causes way more issues. I'm sure many poor Dr's and Nurses are frustrated at what they're having to deal with right now.

Ireland has legalised cannabis, I would much rather be on that than morphine. To smoking that you have to put tobacco in I think, I don't know how it works.

Are any smokers with me on the pictures.

I know it's not a good habit, I know people will say this is merely an excuse, but it helps me keep my sanity.

I don't really want to consider an e-light with the vapour stuff, till more studies are done. Although I've heard people have reactions to them.

That's another picture, someone with a black foot. Yummy

Please don't chop my head off and feed it to the crows.

When I was a kid, ladies had their cigarettes in a purse-like thing, the box sat in there open and you never saw it.

Maybe time for a reintroduction?

Op, your arguments are very immature and not thought out at all. It's all just fate? Do you hear yourself?

Smoking kills people and it will kill you. If some unattractive pictures stop people smoking (and they do) then why on earth would you complain about fewer people dying of cancer etc?

There's this amazing website called eBay. Not sure if you've heard of it. They sell things like cigarette cases. Not sure if you've heard of them. They've been around since people started smoking.

Your grand idea is not original, your arguments are monumentally dim and it would be best you keep them to yourself in case any credulous fools believe your rubbish.

Do grow up.

I used to smoke but stopped using the Allan Carr method. Highly recommend it.

Although the government makes major £££ from smokers, and they're net contributors to the NHS, it really does seem as though things are gearing up for smoking to be illegal 20 years from now.

I must say though that I do get irritated with all the moral preaching that is doled out to smokers. It's as though they have become the acceptable whipping boy for people desperate to demonstrate how health conscious and right on they are. 'I've heckled 4 smokers today, what about you?'.

Self indulgent moral outrage will not help reduce the number of smokers.

Giving up smoking is so hard for some people. I gave up a year ago but I do still have a couple when drinking and socialising. Although the craving has gone I feel like a part of my personality has gone too. It sounds stupid I know but smoking felt like it was a part of me. So I still struggle. I think I may have to try vaping which does feel a bit like a backward step. I know all the horrible things about smoking but I just miss it so much.

Just a thought, you will be still vulnerable to smoking related diseases and other diseases. Because you have liver problems you will be more difficult to treat, perhaos chemo will not be available for you etc. So doesn't it make sense to try and preserve the health you have?

YABU, they are there to stop you smoking which is no bad thing.

I don't like them at all. Don't smoke myself. But if it reduces the number of smokers, it's a good thing. Mind you, the population has just gone from cigarette addiction to food addiction with the obesity crisis. I wonder if there is a correlation.

How about buying a cigarette case, maybe even a cigarette holder and smoking less? Make them more of a treat thing. Smokers only really enjoy the first one of the day. Do you really need to smoke 20 a day to get the pain benefit? I have chronic pain. Never heard of smoking cigarettes for pain, marijuana, yes.

You can get tins for cigarette boxes- not like tobacco tins, they open at the top. I have a couple because they are really handy for keeping cotton reels in, lol! Have a look in places like independent newsagents and discount shops.

Although I don't like smoking, I get what you mean about stress and illness actually making it more difficult to give up. My daughter, who has serious mental health issues is the same way. Take care of yourself in other ways and do consider vaping as a possibility.

MummyofLittleDragon Imagine if they started putting photos of what obesity does to people on fast food packs!

Like Scrumpernickel, I also quit with the Alan Carr method (read the book). It worked brilliantly and by the time I finished the book I have not had another cigarette since (15 months).

I gave up a few months ago, I heard some bad news about a friend who's dying of cancer (I'm not sure if it's smoking related), I thought to myself how terrible it was and that I'm taking my health for granted and gave up, I have a son who deserves to have a mum who is prepared to give up a stupid habit so he won't have to see me die of a self inflicted cancer! I went cold turkey, it was surprisingly easy, I do crave them when I'm drunk and have had one or two when I'm drinking but that's only been on one occasion. I too have a autoimmune disease. Giving up hasn't improved it but I'm sure my insides tell a different story.

I've not seen the new images as the cigarette packs are hidden in shops. The introduction of revolting pictures on advertising hoardings and negative graphics on fag packs certainly helped me to finally quit. Not smoked for 13 years.
OP you talk like a junkie trying to justify your addiction.

Fourteen quid for a packet of cigs in Oz! WOW!

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Ewww. That would be foul. And it is actually the same thing because one fag isn't going to make much difference to your health, the same as one burger isn't either.

The images simply reflect the facts of what smoking does. To the PP who has had mcs and was upset by the image - I entirely sympathise, I have had six mcs, but that image is even sanitised compared to the heartbreaking gut-wrenching reality.

Smoking is disgusting. Yes, in the main people don't do it inside any more, but they seem to think that being outside makes it harmless. If you've ever seen someone smoking on a sunny evening when the light is a certain way, you'll see just exactly how far the cloud of smoke spreads. And other people and their small children have to walk through that. I can't think of one single other activity which it is socially acceptable to harm others doing.

I don't smoke but was in the queue behind someone who asked for cigarettes. I was when they opened the screen to reveal the wall of horror that now makes up the cigarette packs.

My mum has copd caused by smoking for 40 years. Seeing her gasp for breath in a panic as she reaches for her many inhalers is not something I would wish on my worst enemy. She did give up smoking 10 years ago with the help of champix tablets but it was too late to undo the years of smoking she'd done before. She is in her late 60s now and her health is dreadful, she says she wishes she had never smoked.

It's easy to not care about smoking when you're younger and it hasn't taken its toll yet but when you're my mums age and struggling to breathe or having other problems it's a different story.

My dd is a teenager and seeing the issues my mum has has thankfully completely put her off smoking and made her very anti smoking.

ICJump Dh has done so well. one day he just stopped and and hasn't looked back. I hope it continues, I will be so disappointed if he starts again!

I like them. They're fascinating, in a morbid sort of way.