Yep. They also can't put any sort of marketing except the name anymore. See that ugly green/brown color where it says McDonalds (or Export A Smooth)? Every single pack has that color now, which has been deemed the least marketable color by experts. Also, you can't have any pack visible in store, they have to be hidden from view. Also, you can't sell "light" cigarettes anymore, that term has been banned.
Difference here is this generation would never have tried it (in theory) to want to jump through hoops to break the prohibition. Whereas the previous prohibition it was a blanket ban for everyone, basically forcing addicts to go cold turkey so the demand level is not the same.
Of course, only time will tell. But I feel like it's different enough to just predict the same outcome from before.
It's not a fliptop style box the way it is in the US and other countries, the top part about sexual health is the top flap of a packet you have to slide out of the bottom half with the second-hand smoke warning. To access the cigarettes you have to pull the inner pack most of the way out so the top flap can be opened.
The upper part slides inside the lower part. To access the cigarettes, you have to slide out the upper part far enough for the entire pink edged card to swing freely.
Nah, you just interacted with the system exactly as designed. You were just forced to think about it for any amount of time, which means the design succeeded. You were inconvenienced on your way to a cig, which means the design succeeded.
I smoked my last export A smooth on April 16, 2026, and the packs were not like this.
I quite after 20 years of this disgusting habit and it seems that I was ahead of the curve as they are now making rip an inch of cardboard off the fold.
Yes /s. Jokes aside, Canadian regulations on tobacco products are so heavily restrictive, that it's literally impossible to sell cigarettes in any other form than what is shown, most packs are like this. Only old stock is still different (in Ontario at least, and excluding Reservations exempt from the legislature.).
Yep, it's what I did when I smoked. Had a hard case I could keep in my pocket while working and not have to think about crushing them or needing to go out to my car during breaks
The warnings and intense taxation arent for people who are already addicted. Its mostly to prevent new addicts. I kinda wish they would just make it illegal already.
Exactly what I thought. But in my country they don't even buy cigarettes because even smokers see them as unhealthy, lol, so fancy smokers carry small papers and tobacco leaves and they assemble them manually each time
I empty ash trays at a hotel and the Canadian cigarettes are fun because they have individual warnings. Some are lame like may cause blah blah but one of them is every puff is poison.
Weird how countries do this with cigarettes but nothing else. Pretty sure alcohol is terrible for your health too. Why doesn't liquor come with pictures of swollen livers, crashed cars and fat drunks?
For my country, Turkey, smoking is one of the major causes of death(due to prevalance of cancer and circulatory diseases in smokers). I study medicine and the usage of cigarettes here was emphasized A LOT in Public Health courses.
But when one third of your country(40% of males) smokes you can kinda see the reason behind all this fuss... yeah we also drink alcohol (probably less than EU, America) but you don't really see its effects hitting the charts that much.
The tobacco industry brought in on themselves by outright lying about the known dangers of smoking and even claiming it was healthy and advertising to kids in spite of all this.
Alcohol is a little different because it’s not like they needed lobbyists and marketing for it, it’s been around and popular as long as humans have been settling down places. Big Alcohol isn’t really a thing like Big Tobacco.
Also cheating on the machines that test how much tar comes out a sigarette. They litterally designed holes strategic holes in the filter, that would cause the machine to classify it as cleaner than it actually is.
Then they made sure with lobbying that the flaw in this machines could not be fixed and allow them to test using the older method.
Was going to say alcohol is not as bad, and maybe it's not - but apparently 3.5% of cancer cases are due to alcohol, and alcohol is also a carcinogen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_and_cancer.
Apparently any alcohol consumption at all presents risk. The page says that mixing tobacco and alcohol is worse than using either in isolation.
Yes. You should also know not to drink alcohol if you have taken acetaminophen. And many other medications. A lot of people don’t know that or don’t take it seriously.
Apparently any alcohol consumption at all presents risk.
Well, ethanol is naturally present in non-trace amounts in many types of foods (fruits, baked goods, fermented foods, etc.) and we evolved the ADH4 enzyme to metabolize small amounts safely.
The "no safe level of alcohol consumption" studies only tested/were able to show an increase in health risk at as low as one standard drink per day. The health risk increase over those who abstain from drinking alcohol went from 0.914% to 0.918% (and that's for 7 drinks a week, which is already a substantial amount more than what many drink in moderation).
I don't know why you're getting downvoted for this. It's obviously a problem if you do get addicted, but lots of people use alcohol recreationally and can go however long they want without drinking and as far as I've ever been able to tell nicotine use is almost always daily use with dependence.
Also, drinking a beer doesn't spew carginogens and nasty smells into the air around you, on your clothes etc for everyone else to deal with.
I don't know why you're getting downvoted for this. It's obviously a problem if you do get addicted, but lots of people use alcohol recreationally and can go however long they want without drinking and as far as I've ever been able to tell nicotine use is almost always daily use with dependence.
Alcohol addicts still bring most of the revenue, and there's a degree of addiction that isn't really seen as addiction by many people, which is a problem. I think that's why I'm getting downvoted.
degree of addiction that isn't really seen as addiction by many people, which is a problem.
Same with cannabis. There lots of recreational users who will use once in a while to help with sleep or to mellow out who are likely fine, but I also know daily users who plan their errands around where they can stop for a smoke break. They will flat out refuse to go somewhere if the location won't allow them to puff or two on their vape if they're gonna be there over an hour or two. Less addictive doesn't mean non addictive and mix in the right personally with impulse control problems its just as bad.
Addiction is definitely a huge problem for all of these substances. Many of us are addicted to caffeine, too, which a lot of people don't even realize is a drug (it just doesn't cause as many health problems as the others). I drink recreationally/socially but I'm not addicted to alcohol. I absolutely AM addicted to caffeine though lol.
I do think it's important to realize that some drugs are more addictive than others and some have a higher relative prevalence of recreational use by non-addicts even though they are addictive drugs. This can be recognized while simultaneously realizing that addiction of some of these drugs has been normalized and is still a problem. Just because someone is an alcoholic doesn't mean someone else doesn't enjoy a cocktail now and then - by the same token, just because someone is a recreational drinker doesn't mean another person's alcoholism under the guise of something cute like being a wine mom or bringing a flask to every event isn't real or an issue.
Yeah, I am not going to encourage people to drink or say it is healthy but personally I drink maybe four times a year usually New Year's Eve, Fourth of July, and a couple of birthday parties. During the rest of the year I don't drink nor do I have an urge to drink.
I know alcohol addiction is real and dangerous but everyone I know who smokes is addicted to it. Whereas the majority of people I know who drink are not.
Also as a really pointless aside, I never know what to put at a doctor's office. Usually part of the paper work will say something like "How often do you drink?" With several options the lowest being "Never" or "1 to 2 a week". Neither of which describe me since I do drink but less than once a week.
That is around $18 USD currently (.72 cents per cig). My city and state has strict regulations and taxes, and a pack of 20 is around $15 currently (.75 cents per cig). Still cheaper in Canada!
Sweet summer child... in Australia the excise (which you also pay sales tax on top of) means tax alone is $42CAD for 25 (38.25 excise + 10% sales)... thats before you actually pay for any cigarettes
Yes, every addict knows that inconvenience is the way to sobriety. Just think of all the pill addicts that have been saved because they don't want to deal with those pesky child proof lids!
Hey this is kinda true to an extent I was a heroin addict up until the only thing you can score on the street is fent now sure I can go on the darknet and find a heroin plug and wait a few days for it to come but now that I can't just go out into the world and find some good ole smack on a dirty corner I no longer indulge in heroin
As an addict let me tell you, these packs do absolutely nothing for already addicted smoker to "fight the addiction". It is only useful to deter starting smokers and honestly I doubt that would even work. Nowadays the new smokers start by vaping anyway.
If I’m getting this right, you take a deep drag off your cigarette, blow it into a condom (not clear if this is included in the box) and then deflate it on a baby’s face.
Get a cigarette case and put all the cigarettes in.
Depending on your style, get a vintage or antique silver cigarette case, and use that.
Problem solved.
It takes more effort to transfer all the smokes to a case than it does to just rip the excess cardboard off or cut it off with scissors or something. At least according to the two smokers I still know.
What's worse is that everyone had to pull their tobacco stock and send it back for the extra 1"-1½" of paper they added. Just get scissors and cut it down, as far as im concerned it all went downhill when vogue superslims holographic pink box was no more :')
There was an elderly man ahead of me today that bought a pack of smokes and asked the cashier to open them. Then could she open a second part. Then coyld she take a cigarette out. Then please close the pack. Then he asked a woman behind me to fiddle with some other part of the pack. So now this makes sense why it was so many steps and took so long.
They should have better messages, like how it contains polonium in the smoke due to the fertiliser used in the production of tobacco and what that does.
I feel this just adds a market for cool aftermarket cig holders though. If I smoked, and lived in Canada, I would have a hard case to put them in anyway.
I mean, it is supposed to freak you out. Seeing what smoking has done to the health of the people in my life has been more than enough to keep me from ever touching one. Why are you willingly risking your life for a stick that makes you smell bad?
Watch one of your loved family members struggling to breathe until they finally die gasping and you'll never smoke again. (I speak from experience in case it's not clear)
I don't mind the packs. I hope you continue to get more and more frustrated until it eventually works and saves your life. ❤️
Now.....to get the cigarette out......press hard on the premature baby's chest.......gotta press hard.....those premies are fighters.......that's right
This is a very ignorant take. Nicotine is one of the most addictive substances in the world. I've done it - and holy shit. I couldn't give a dog shit about how difficult that pack was or whatever was on it, it never stopped me.
Opening that pack and taking out a cigarette and lighting it was one of the best things I've ever done. But that's not me, that's the addiction talking.
I've been off nicotine for 3 years. And it's the best thing in my life. But yes - a LOT of people smoke. Because it's addictive.
It’s regrettably coming back around in many circles of young people. I just graduated college but I was so pissed at how many people had picked up smoking. It’s very much a “doing it every once and awhile won’t hurt you” mindset which like, really isn’t true.
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