Friday, 1 September 2006

Business as usual

I'm intrigued by a certain fact: the recently-introduced graphical anti-smoking notices on cigarette packs have (probably) not resulted in a decrease in smoking. Rather, they have opened the door on a new market - coloured cardboard covers for your cigarette packs. For about 80 cents you can have a re-usable colourful cardboard sleeve to slip over your disturbing images of brain cancer. Bargain.

Mokalus of Borg

PS - That's capitalism.
PPS - People will pay to avoid targeted negative images.

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