Comment on in the uk they encourage smokers by printing cigarette packs as collectibles

auzy1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Quokka@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  We did, in fact I feel those are the exact same images from our packs. I haven’t smoked in a long time so can’t compare, but they feel identical.

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  • Maeve@kbin.earth ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    https://tobacco-img.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/cigarettes/cartoons/joe-camel-cartoons/joecamel_119.jpg

    https://s3.amazonaws.com/images.ecwid.com/images/73176953/3202223302.jpg

    Of course I was much too young to be smoking or drinking, so I was delighted. Not A-B though.

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    • Quokka@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It was more in reference to the graphic images of the harms of smoking. We did plain packaging and medical images and others slowly picked it up.

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      • Maeve@kbin.earth ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I'm aware. I'm saying we had mascots to encourage bad habits.

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• ttayh@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  nope

  Canada, december 2000

  Brazil, 2001 (later also added blunt phrases with the gore images, eg, “you die” “causes ED”)

  Aus, 2006

  UK, 2008

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  • morto@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Here in Brazil there’s even a popular joke about someone who went to buy cigarettes and received a box with the message that it causes erectile dysfunction, and then asks to change it for the one that causes cancer

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    • ttayh@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Tô ligado mano

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  • auzy1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Wow. We were really slow on that one

    Actually super surprising

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