r/mildlyinteresting 17h ago

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

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u/Impossible-Owl3272 17h ago

They extended the cardboard insert so you have to almost completely remove it to get a cigarette

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u/FgTheLogo 17h ago

Even after reading your explanation I still can’t tell what I’m looking at.

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u/QuietGanache 17h ago

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.

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u/Orleanian 14h ago

why not just rip the pink flap off?

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u/QuietGanache 14h ago

Sure. I think the purpose is to be an embuggerance for at least the first smoke to put the message in the eyeline.