I could probably make a few guesses if I knew which state or city
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Quoth Ironclad Alibi View PostThat really pinpoints your location. You're on dry land, most likely.I am not an a**hole. I am a hemorrhoid. I irritate a**holes!
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Quoth aulocksmith View PostI regularly see people at my local supermarket trying to articulate what the want without ever saying a brand name or strength. But then, my area isn't known for it's intelligence.
Quoth XCashier View PostI'm sorry, but these laws are just crazy. What are they trying to accomplish? If they're trying to reduce smoking by making the cashier go crazy and gun down the cigarette customers, I suppose they're working, otherwise what good is obscuring the packaging and names and all that?!The best professors are mad scientists! -Zoom
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Quoth sms001 View PostA "regular" coffee is cream and two sugars in the Northeast states, iirc. 'course, it tells you nothing about size. Double suck if you are not, in fact, IN an area where this is common nomenclature.
It's the ones who ask for a medium regular with 2 sugars that confuses me. I had a guy ask for one of those the other day. Partway through explaining coffee parlance to this guy his wife approached and chided him for confusing me saying, "I told you, a regular is one cream and one sugar!"The customer is always right until I decide he isn't.
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Quoth aulocksmith View PostThat's right, every single pack of cigarettes is now an ugly olive green, with a health warning in large type at the top, followed by a disgusting picture related to warning, and the brand and variety at the bottom in small type.Last edited by MadMike; 05-21-2014, 10:43 PM. Reason: Please don't quote the entire post. We've already read it.They say that God only gives us what we can handle. Apparently, God thinks I'm a bad ass.
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Quoth aulocksmith View PostThat's right, every single pack of cigarettes is now an ugly olive green, with a health warning in large type at the top, followed by a disgusting picture related to warning, and the brand and variety at the bottom in small type.Any fool can piss on the floor. It takes a talented SC to shit on the ceiling.
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I don't think they get an option; the warnings and pictures are all different. Maybe they get stuck on later. IIRC we have the warnings in the UK; the rest of the packet is still brand-coloured. The big supermarkets all have to hide them in cupboards, so I haven't seen them for ages ^^;;"...Muhuh? *blink-blink* >_O *roll over* ZZZzzz......"
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Quoth dawnfire View Post
that's strange my local IGA supermarket has a screen above the cigarette cupboard with all the prices
Wolfie; I don't think they get a choice I what warnings they have but I do know that over here people attempted to collect the whole set of warnings.
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I am glad America does not have any of those stupid "reduce smoking" laws. I honestly believe that the only thing they should do is a simple (but prominent) black-box warning, and anti-smoking education (paid for by taxing tobacco). Which we already do.
The plain packaging just annoys workers and the obscene packaging is just tossed for a 'hard case'.I might be crazy, but I'm not Insane.
What? You don't play with flamethrowers on the weekends? You are strange.
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Quoth ADeMartino View PostIt's coming, trust me. The anti-smoking push is still ramping up even as we speak.
The US government will never be able to force the 'plain' repackaging or the obscene pictures on packaging, though. Even the anti-smoking people would be outraged by some of that imagery. I know some anti-smoking ads had to be pulled in the US because people complained about the obscene nature of them (I think it was depicting some type of medical/surgical procedure of the face or lungs).I might be crazy, but I'm not Insane.
What? You don't play with flamethrowers on the weekends? You are strange.
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They might not be able to make it 'law', per se. But most of this push comes from insurance companies, who want desperately to reduce their liability. What they CAN do is drive up the taxes on tobacco, making it prohibitively expensive to smoke, and the insurance companies will push up their premiums for smokers. The govt will enjoy even more tax dollars, the insurance companies will get richer, and the Constitution gets neatly sidestepped. Most rational people will dump the cigs, and the hardcore smokers will continue to pay the exorbitant prices.
And lest we forget, they have already made considerable inroads against smoking.
I can see $20+ for a pack for cigarettes in the not-so-distant future.
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