Has plain packaging impacted smoking?
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Posted by: Caféstudy
22nd Jan 2014 04:20pm
A year after plain packaging was introduced, we asked you if you thought it had had an effect and was working to stop people smoking. Was it a worthwhile change, or just an example of the Government making decisions for us?
DDD49
- 24th Jan 2014 07:13pm
I agree - I've stopped smoking - I stopped smoking for a couple of years after smoking for 40 years but a few years ago @ Peel Health Campus an X-ray showed a large dark patch on my left lung & they thought it was cancer so I thought bugger it I enjoyed smoking & started smoking again after all I'm lucky to be alive after a MVA in 2004 broke my neck and I had a blood clot taken off my brain - I think I had a stroke - so I have an acquired brain in jury with ADHD & Parkinsons due to DUI. Anyway I went to South Fremantle Hospital for a MRI and a week later attended the hospital again for the results - the doctor could not believe it & rushed in to show his manager - there was no marks on my lungs despite me having had pleurisy years ago :) He reckoned it was a miracle & asked which Church I attended - anyway we had been allocated a Homeswest house in Derby, WA so promised the kids I would stop smoking once we were in it. Quiteb frankly I love smoking & still have a drag on a nicorette inhaler as I stop smoking - the biggest incentive to stop is I don't want my little ones smoking & I save $160 per month and will save more as the prices escalate & being on a disability pension it makes it unaffordable or we would have to miss out on essentials! The packaging had no impact upon my decision & simply makes itv harder for shop assistants to ID the brand!