Tobacco Industry Takes a Hit Due to Plain Packaging

The dramatic fall in the rate of teenagers smoking has fallen covertly, as since 1992 all the tobacco ban advertising and sponsorship and all the quit campaigns were targeted towards their smoking parents, they learned early that smoking is something to be avoided in life.

Even then there are those who still smoke, those who are thoroughly addicted to cigarettes, who either can’t or don’t want to quit.  However when it comes to retarded number, it’s not just the occasional smokers who have quit, even the heavy, hard core smokers have quit. In case the heavy smokers were left to smoke then the average daily consumption would be rising, but it didn’t, rather it has decreased.

In a 2002 study called International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Survey, where 8,000 smokers were interviewed form four nations, the United States, the United Kingdom Australia and Canada, it was found that the experience of regret of having started smoking was almost universal. “If you had to do it over again, you would not have started smoking,” was the statement agreed or strongly agreed by 90 percent of the smokers in the survey. There are hardly any smokers who would hope for their children to take up smoking, even when they become adults, as reported by The Conversation.

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