Smokefree South West welcomes Government consultation on tobacco packaging
A Bristol-based smoking cessation service has today welcomed the launch today of the Government's consultation on tobacco packaging.
Smokefree South West says putting cigarettes and tobacco in plain packets is essential because - as advertising tobacco is banned in the UK - packaging is the tobacco industry's main promotional tool.
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Should cigarettes be sold in plain packaging?
Fiona Andrews, Director of Smokefree South West, based on Whiteladies Road in Clifton, said that two thirds of smokers start before they are 18 and the vast majority while still teenagers.
She explained: "Big Tobacco knows this only too well and uses attractive packaging to help replace the 100,000 customers lost every year to smoking related diseases.
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"Smoking is an epidemic that affects children and moving tobacco products into standardised, plain packaging is designed to protect them; it is not about current smokers."
Earlier this year a campaign was launched at Bristol's M Shed to support proposals for tobacco to only be sold in “plain” packaging.
However, Bristol's Imperial Tobacco has said it will fight Government plans to sell cigarettes and tobacco in plain packets.
A spokesman for the firm said it had a fundamental right to differentiate its brands from those of its competitors.
He added: "Tobacco packaging has never been identified as a reason why people start to smoke or continue to smoke. We are particularly concerned about the impact plain packaging will have on illicit trade."
Click here to have your say on the tobacco packaging consultation.
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Comments
by fordz
Saturday, April 28 2012, 7:38PM
“who is Smokefree South West they are a bunch of pc no one's”
by dais9ma9ie
Thursday, April 19 2012, 11:58AM
“a total waste of time,”
by krankenhaus
Tuesday, April 17 2012, 9:06PM
“I remember when I started smoking, I'd buy the brands that I'd heard of. Not, the gold packet or white packet with red stripes.... Ooh, actually I'll have the shiny shiny silver packet instead... Load of old cobblers.”
by mrdogwalker
Tuesday, April 17 2012, 8:48PM
“Yup, there you go. What did I tell you? All those mung beans must be making them hyperactive, poor little dears.”
by mrdogwalker
Tuesday, April 17 2012, 8:12PM
“Fake charity Smokefree Southwest must have a very good organiser who can get all his/her fellow fusspots/nannyists/bansturbators sitting at their computers ready to hit the red arrow. My advice to them would be to have a nice bacon sarny, then go for a couple of pints and a couple of fags. Really, you'll feel better.
Watch the red arrows mount up, it'll be like an air display!”
by suffolkpunch
Tuesday, April 17 2012, 1:17PM
“Smokefree South West why don't you post your comments instead of just clicking the red arrows.”
by nathanw1
Monday, April 16 2012, 11:27PM
“This will not work. Children don't start smoking because they think the package is appealing. It scares me to wonder what they will they dream up when this doesn't work?”
by fordz
Monday, April 16 2012, 9:57PM
“Should cigarettes and tobacco be sold in plain packaging?
23%
Yes
77%
No”
by Bristol1978
Monday, April 16 2012, 9:56PM
“-9, well thats me told, ROFLMAO”
by fordz
Monday, April 16 2012, 9:55PM
“"Should cigarettes be sold in plain packaging?
NO no no no no no no no , I don't even smoke! I'm just fed up with the 'nanny state'.""o”