The pictures and warnings are already there. Makes not a bit of difference as far as I have noticed. Smokers keep on smoking, pictures won't stop them.
New smokers - can't say. Perhaps it will have an effect, only time will tell. If I was a teenager still (if only!) then gruesome pictures would probably not put me off...quite the opposite in fact. I would treat them like football (baseball ) cards and try to collect them all :D
If they are banned outright - will people stop? Doubt it.
There are numerous other smokable things that are banned...I know I could go and buy them almost as fast as it would take to get a pack of fags. Then there are all of the other substances that will get you a prison sentence or a serious smack on the bum if you are caught with them. Has outlawing them stopped people using them?
People want to have a choice, at a fair price.
If you take that choice away or put the price up so they are prohibitively expensive people will find alternatives which is arguably one of the reasons why there is such a massive tobacco black market in the UK. The majority of which is supplied by....CHINA!!!
See if you can find a BBC Panorama documentary titled "Smoking and the Bandits". Very enlightening.
People want what they desire at a decent/bargain price.
That's why eB is so successful!!
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