Friday, 12 October 2012

Teens Have No Interest In Cigarette Packets .. Say Smokefree South West!

In April, Smokefree South West were papering up the West Country with signs - paid for with £468k of your taxes - stating that branding of tobacco was so alluring to the young that it has to be banned immediately!


However, in July, their Director Fiona Andrews seems to have changed her mind during a Powerpoint presentation (slide 10).
- Teenagers interviewed could associate few values with
manufactured ‘stick’ brands 
- Few expressed any interest in manufactured packet or
‘stick’ brands:  “What grannies smoke”
Far from enticing youngsters, Fiona is quite sure that tailored cigarette brands are something that youngsters wish to avoid. They're what grannies smoke. Ewww!

So what's with the guff they've been spreading about all those tailored packs, then? Perhaps they'd like to tell the British Heart Foundation of this discovery, because their propaganda concentrates on nothing else (badly).



On the plus side, Fiona's refreshing honesty does mostly agree with the conclusions of Cancer Research UK, who are adamant that kids barely notice any tobacco packaging.

Something tells me that this 'compelling evidence' they keep badgering MPs with is anything but. Do you think they might just be, I dunno, making it all up as they go along?