In your face cigarettes, this is so wrong..........

[Sore Thumb]

I love Stafford and love shopping in stafford and I am a resident of Staffordshire.

Well I did love shopping in stafford until I went in today.

Went into the indoor shopping mall with my young daughter and came across the most direct Cigarette advertising and promotion I have ever seen. Yes I know they are electric cigarettes, but the huge cigarettes look like normal cigarette and they really don't do anything to reduce the glamorisation of cigarettes to children.

Maybe it's not illegal but I am completely shocked and disgusted that huge cigarettes have been permitted in a mall with a significant number of children walking past.

Maybe they could have a more discrete stall but one thing, please remove the huge cigarettes!!

I will also be making a complaint to the mall management and town officials.

I won't be walking through or using any of the shops in the mall until this stall is gone. I really don't want my children exposed to this, it is so in your face.........

 

[gbb]

If its any consolation, I agree...wholeheartedly.
I can only suppose they're trying (and probably succeeding) to get people's attention...once they have them, they'll then try to get people to swap to the substitute, which in the end can only be a good thing.
I think they could have done better though.

 

[Arch]

If its any consolation, I agree...wholeheartedly.
I can only suppose they're trying (and probably succeeding) to get people's attention...once they have them, they'll then try to get people to swap to the substitute, which in the end can only be a good thing.
I think they could have done better though.

Is it such a good thing? I mean I know they are supposed to be healthier, but they don't tackle the addiction to nicotine, and the habit of smoking. So they pander to the lack of will power.

(Easy for me to say, I know, as a non-smoker)

 

[BigonaBianchi]

Excommunicate them.

 

[Fnaar]

They should filter out this sort of thing. This is only the tip.

 

[vernon]

There's absolutely nothing wrong with the marketing of the cigarettes. They are a legal product and contain no carcinogens. There's a huge financial and health benefit to smokers who switch to e-cigarettes - no tar and carcinogens and considerably cheaper than 'the real thing'. The same age limits as cigarette purchasing applies to e cigarettes.

They have never been marketed as a smoking cessation aid or as a primary introduction to nicotine addiction. As an ex smoker who comes into frequent contact with juvenile smokers in my capacity of a school teacher, their access to cigarettes and cigarette products is almost invariably provided through their parents, siblings and acquaintances who are old enough to make unchallenged purchases in the local shops.

I have the diametrically opposed viewpoint of the OP. I really don't think that the display glamorises the act of smoking. Cigarettes per se aren't glamourised any more in the media. Cigarette sponsorship and advertising disappeared long ago. I doubt if anyone walks into a vendor of e cigarettes or tobacco products and makes their first purchase without having had repeated first hand experience of smoking with the materials being provided by pals, relatives and acquaintances.

I tentatively suggest that the thing that introduces more young folk to smoking is the easy access to cannabis joints generally made with hand rolling tobacco. In shops that still have open view tobacco displays, the percentage of shelf display given over to hand rolling tobacco and king size cigarette papers gives lie to the the probable intended activity of their purchasers. This aspect of tobacco consumption, in my opinion, is the elephant in the room of the anti tobacco campaigners.

 

[vernon]

They should filter out this sort of thing. This is only the tip.

It's a burning issue.

 

[redcard]

They are a legal product and contain no carcinogens.

Are you sure about that? It's quite the sweeping statement. Being a teacher, I'm sure you've read the research.

Right?

 

[vernon]

Are you sure about that? It's quite the sweeping statement. Being a teacher, I'm sure you've read the research.

Right?

Yeah, right!

Now prove me wrong.

 

[Noodley]

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That bloke obviously fell for the advertising, he's got one in his bag...

 

[asterix]

They should filter out this sort of thing. This is only the tip.

No, I'm not shocked by electric cigarettes. Maybe they are too cheap and they could charge more?

 

[Sore Thumb]

Also these electric cigarettes should only be smoked outside, similar to real cigarettes. I don't want to see an activity that is seen as socially unacceptable being normalised by using these realistic looking electric cigarettes being used indoors.

My children cannot tell the difference between a real cigarette and an electric one when someone sitting next to you in a cafe puffing on them.

 

[vernon]

Also these electric cigarettes should only be smoked outside, similar to real cigarettes. I don't want to see an activity that is seen as socially unacceptable being normalised by using these realistic looking electric cigarettes being used indoors.

My children cannot tell the difference between a real cigarette and an electric one when someone sitting next to you in a cafe puffing on them.

Smoking is seen to be socially unacceptable by some but not all of the population.

It's perfectly legal to 'vape' so be pragmatic and use premises that ban the devices.

Smokers tolerate your intolerance so a bit of give and take is called for.

Kids are more discerning that you give them credit for.

Light a candle rather than curse the darkness. It will do wonders for your anxiety and blood pressure.

 

[Kookas]

Most likely so that smokers will be lured there thinking they're real cigs, and then buy the electric ones instead.

My children cannot tell the difference between a real cigarette and an electric one when someone sitting next to you in a cafe puffing on them.

Why don't you tell them the difference, then?

 

[vernon]

Most likely so that smokers will be lured there thinking they're real cigs, and then buy the electric ones instead.

Why don't you tell them the difference, then?

That's far too simple a solution.