Tobacco Industry Takes a Hit Due to Plain Packaging

As per the statistics, out of every 200 people, just three are happy about smoking. 40 percent of smokers seriously attempt to quit each year. $1.8 billion is spent by smokers all around the world for quitting treatments. They may desperately smoke only hoping they didn’t and wishing to quit. Cigarettes are one of the products in the history of commerce which makes the consumers feel awful about consuming it.

A large number of smokers welcome restrictions, like places where they can’t smoke, tax rises, and morbid pictures on the pack, according to many studies. They believe that these signs help them regulate their smoking habits. Just one out of ten smokers now smoke at home and 58 percent of Victorian smokers believe that eventually sale of cigarettes should be banned.

However, other parts of the world still suffer with high number of people hooked to the fatal habit.

As per another study from a rural tobacco growing region in China, 89 percent of the illiterate males smoke. The tobacco industry plans and aims at large, poorly educated population with ideally corrupt officials.

Nowadays, the Tobacco websites sympathetically ‘agree’ that smoking leads to health problems, they smartly promote new reduced harmful products, in the hope that smokers will switch to these less risky products. The tobacco companies tactfully oppose any policy that threatens to actually reduce smoking rate.

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