Time to start voting with your wallet, by not buying any more of them!
this post was submitted on 14 Dec 2023
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"I can excuse the lung cancer, but I draw the line at advertising!"
If you work on not buying cigarettes anymore you avoid the ads and something for your health and your pocket. Triple win.
Cigarettes are bad and all, but from a business standpoint this is pretty clever. The EU forbade them to put ads on the package, so they're putting ads in the packages. I hope my appreciation of their ingenuity gives the some solace when they're burning in hell.
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They're advertising alt-cigarette products, right? Probably from their parent companies alt subsidiary.
I vaguely remember in the '90s they used to have slips like that in the UK. Can't remember if it was advertising or things like "Collect 100 of these tokens, get a 20 pack for free!"
Yeah it says “Heats real tobacco, doesn’t burn” so probably a vape. The big cigarette companies have all bought up companies in the vaping industry in the last years.
not a liquid vape. they probably mean something like iqos, which just heats thw tobacco
That would be false marketing, then. The reason why vapes are much less unhealthy (still unhealthy and wouldn't recommend them for anything except temporary use to quit smoking) than cigarettes is that they DON'T contain tobacco!
There's a big difference between "heated" and "burnt" tobacco. Same as with weed vaporization vs smoking, vaporization is much healthier compared to inhaling burnt plant material.
True, but e-juice still isn't and doesn't contain tobacco, is my point.
The ad might be for another kind of vape that DOES use tobacco, which would still be MUCH more unhealthy than e-juice even without the burning.
That ad doesn’t make any health claims tho. Or am I missing context here?
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Philip Morris advertising a Philip Morris product by pretending they care about your health
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We sell cigarettes, but if we were you we wouldn't buy them.
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Youre mildly infuriated by a reminder that youre actively killing yourself?
The post is about the ad for vape pens inside the box, not the health warning.
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Australia has all cigarette packets an olive green colour with the usual graphic pictures as well as the same font used on all of them. Seems to work and the manufacturers have slunk off to their kennels.
Norway has it too on ciggs and snus, not many smoke but thats becouse of how popular snus is
Oh man, I just don't care at all about ads in cigarette packs. I wish they would make them 5 times as expensive tho.
I wish they'd outlaw them globally, they are cancer sticks
I'm pro smoke free legislation but prohibition doesn't work
I wish they’d regulate what goes in them.
That's very unlikely to work tho
Come to Australia. On the rare occasion I see someone smoking a real cigarette now I just think "who can afford to burn a $3 cigarette?".
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i though that the guy in the bed dieing was an american health company Ads 💀💀
Nah cigarettes in the EU all have pictures of gross stuff on them like this. Canada too IIRC, but it's been a while since I was there.
a guy in a bed isn't gross compared with we have in brazil lol, it's straight up open wounds NSFW
Yeah they have stuff like that here too. Some are pretty tame like someone in a hospital bed and others are like legit photos of cancer like your example.
Australia as well
Yep, and Australia. Been a thing for a long time.
And we have plain packaging laws too. No branding at all.
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you like your cigarette the way you like your youtube, ad free /joke
*and cancerous (like the comments)
"Try Cigarettes Premium for an ad-free experience!"
Those little ad cards are an older concept than the filters.
That is a practice that is at least few years old. I've seen similar cards with ads of IQOS (or Heets? I don't remember) produced in many languages for European market.
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