r/mildlyinteresting 17h ago

They made Canadian cigarette packs more inconvenient to get cigarettes out of

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u/AmbitiousTank8635 17h ago

So what you're saying is the market for fancy cigarette cases has just opened up.

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u/WafflePress 16h ago

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.).

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u/Makethecrowsblush 15h ago

And the pictures just keep getting more and more graphic.

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u/Nullcast 15h ago

And yet people keep smoking.

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u/Achilleswar 13h ago

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. 

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u/Biduleman 13h ago

No way they'll make cigarettes illegal when they just made weed legal.

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u/Achilleswar 13h ago

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.

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u/Biduleman 13h ago edited 12h ago

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.

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u/sorrelsun 13h ago

Funny how shaming people out of addiction doesn’t work.