Nanny State Australia has stepped into the breach to rescue Nanny State Britain with some free pictures of people dying of cancer and heart disease to put on the side of cigarette packets in case of a No Deal Brexit.
Plain packaging of cigarettes, heralded as the “next giant leap” to reduce smoking, is more of a euphemism. Critics describe it as more “medical pornography”, with sometimes grotesque images of gangrenous feet, rotting teeth, and cancer-riddled lungs. But it also has unintended consequences for law and order, with the poorest and most vulnerable paying the highest price.
Plain packaging of cigarettes is to be introduced in the UK tomorrow, following the failure of leading tobacco firms to challenge the legislation in the UK’s High Court today. Packs of ten cigarettes will also disappear from the nations shelves
Seita, the French subsidiary of Britain’s Imperial Tobacco and the maker of the iconic Gauloises and Gitanes cigarettes, said Tuesday it would appeal to France’s top court against regulations imposing plain packaging. The appeal to the Council of State, France’s
In 2009 I witnessed a massive illegal cigarette haul. 120 million cigarettes, smuggled into Northern Ireland by the IRA. The seizure, in the heart of ‘bandit country’, was the largest ever seen in Europe, with an estimated street value of nearly
The IRA are set to make a staggering £22 million a year more in counterfeit cigarettes when plain packaging legislation goes through because the packs are so much easier to fake. Police in Ireland have said that pain packaging is
Plain packaging of cigarettes will put the police force under undue pressure by increasing the supply of counterfeit cigarettes on the market, a group of former policemen has warned. In a letter to the Telegraph, the 16 former senior officers
The Irish Republican Army (IRA) and organised crime are becoming major players in the Australian cigarette business, according to several newspapers. The Irish Independent reports a senior figure in the South Armagh Provisional IRA has been arrested in Spain in
Further evidence of Tory splits over the introduction of Plain Packaging for cigarettes has emerged as Conservatives lined up to attack their health minister Jane Ellison, who pushed the measure through. It is understood that the plans were not signed
Yesterday’s announcement by the government that they will bring a vote on legislation to introduce plain packaging of cigarettes before the next general election in May has already caused splits in Prime Minister David Cameron’s government. Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond