As loyal readers know, Nanny hates fags.
This is rather ironic given that she makes a fortune from taxing them, but hey hoh who are we to judge Nanny's reasoning?
Anyhoo, one of her favourite ideas to lessen people's usage of the demon weed is to introduce plain paper packing. Apparently we are so excited by the stimulating packaging designs, that we are tempted to smoke.
Quite!
Ignoring the poor logic of Nanny's reasoning, Australia Nanny has already introduced plain packaging.
How's it going then downunder?
Well, as expected, not too well. For you see dear readers plain paper packs are easy to counterfeit.
Can you guess what happened children?
Yes, that's right, there has been an explosion of counterfeit fags hitting the streets.
Channel Seven News note that the policy has boosted counterfeiting and smuggling by about 40 percent.
Seizures of illicit sticks is up from 82 million in 2012 to 200 million last year. Local Police Officer Rodney Smith said that no one could be sure what the counterfeit cigarettes contained, although in laboratory tests they are regularly found to contain chemicals that are not allowed to be added by legitimate manufacturers.
In fact Aussie media is full of stories reporting that smoking is up after plain packaging was introduced 18 months ago.
Great diea Nanny, well done!
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It is absolutely impossible to calculate how many people in any country smoke.
ReplyDeleteThese figures are pure propaganda; produced by whoever has an agenda to put forward or an axe to grind.