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Apr 24th, 2008 - 13:18:17
As of May 31 open displays of smokes in retail stores will be banned. Tobacco products will still be available. They just won't be on display. It's the out-of-sight, out-of-mind theory. Will it influence smokers to kick the habit? Not likely. Most smokers go to the store to buy a pack of cigarettes. It's not a case of impulse buying while they are there for a quart of milk. In fact, it works the other way. They pick up the milk while they are there for the cigarettes. It will take a lot more than putting cigarette packages in a hidden drawer to drive them to butting out. If it were that easy, we wouldn't have an illegal drug problem. Smoking rates aren't likely to be affected by the hide-the-tobacco approach. Not when more illegal cigarettes are being sold from trunks of cars than legals at corner stores. There's one thing the new law might do and that is to remove another bullet from the tobacco companies' marketing gun aimed at reeling in new, younger smokers. But the question that remains is why governments don't just ban tobacco products the same way they have banned pesticides? Of course, we all know the answer - pesticides don't provide the kind of tax revenues that tobacco products provide. Governments have become addicted to the tax revenue and can't quit cold turkey. © Copyright 2006 by DiscountCigarettesBox.Com Top of Page |
