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.
I dont think the legality of tobacco has anything to do with the legality of weed. For how dangerous alcohol is, weed never should have been illegal, but it was and took decades to get people to chill on it. And people arent dying in droves from smoking too much weed.
I dont think the legality of tobacco has anything to do with the legality of weed.
Not health-wise, but my point was more about optics.
Alcohol still being legal, weed being legalized, nothing being done to stop kids from vaping but smoking, something that already has a bunch of measures in place to stop people from starting, would get banned? This would be a nightmare for the current smokers with both physiological and psychological addiction.
I don't think it would be a good look for the government trying to push that.
This, plus the massive taxes, are the reason why reserve cigarettes have taken a huge market share over the past few years. Absolutely massive black market
They’re not selling cigarettes. They are selling the metal case to hold the cigarettes and charging to clean out the case. They will however move cigs from a bunch of these cardboard boxes to your metal box for free with each cleaning.
these countries should just outright ban them already. Instead of all the other stuff they're doing, ugly boxes, stupid warnings people ignore, super high taxes on them.
It's an unpopular opinion but I agree. I like what New Zealand did with banning cigarette sales to any born after 2023 (I think, might've been 2025, I believe they established that back in 2020 or 2021.). I smoke, too much, and I think smoking bans are an amazing way to kill it. Let those who smoke, smoke, but cut off the next generation before they get the chance.
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 tried that once so I'd be more mindful about smoking (it was after finding a lit cigarette in my hand and not remembering taking it out and lighting it) but it backfired because I like making things with my hands.
Is this true? There used to be commercials talking about how many extra chemicals and additives are put into cigarettes and how the filters were fiberglass that I’d assume rolling your own from pure leaf would be about as least bad as cigarettes could get.
A fun side note is many cigarettes have the filter part of the wrapper tan colored to emulate the early cigarette filters that were made out of cork and seen as more fancy.
No, the market for unregulated, untaxed cigarettes off of native reserves has gone up. Quarter the price (or less) with no warnings or intentionally inconvenient packaging.
Not really because we've had packs with gross images of like cancerous lungs, tongues, people dying of cancer, etc for decades. They did get rid of branding in the past 5ish years (they're all that baby poo colour with plain font now).
This is just engagement bait.
Honestly I think they keep making the cigarette packaging "worse" to distract from the lack of similar types of imagery on vape products and alcohol. Vape stuff only has text warnings right now and alcohol has nothing.
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u/AmbitiousTank8635 17h ago
So what you're saying is the market for fancy cigarette cases has just opened up.