Like in the UK all of them are in just green boxes and not the original packaging, why do they do this?

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  1. To try to make it visually unappealing so that young people won’t want to start smoking. Of course, they’re all vaping now anyway.

  2. Because they banned tobacco advertising a while ago and all boxes had to be plain as a result of.

  3. The basically banned the old packaging and put it all in plain packaging to make it visually unappealing, and therefore taking away some of the appeal of smoking. Also why in a lot of shops they’re behind a sliding door, that came in first if I remember rightly.

  5. When I worked in a shop the packaging was of a wide variety of designs visually and mechanically. People learn to associate the design with their brand and brands can be recognised by say the children of smokers. It normalises and in some way sanitises what they actually are, which is highly addictive drug delivery with no real benefitial application. The fact there there are only 2-3 tobacco companies selling the different brands also suggests that the packaging and wide variety of options is all part of the marketing to make them more appealing.

    When I traveled to Australia I wanted to buy tobacco and had to go to the customer service desk and they had a few different products in a draw.

    If it’s against the law to advertise tobacco it doesn’t make sense for practically all shop till areas to have a wall of tobacco products with distinctive, bright shiny packages.

  6. They also have to be stored behind closed doors in shops, so they’re only visible to customers when you ask for them (by name, eg “~~10~~ 20 Marlboro Lights, please”).

  7. Other countries also do this to take away the brand recognition of the package (by others) like selecting brand A vs. B to die painfully and more quickly is a sign of some sort of panache.

    Canada is starting to print “you will die” “this will kill you” on the filters of every cigarette.

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