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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's true in pretty much every developed country over the past 2-3 decades lmao. The US still has branded packaging but the social attitude towards cigarettes has also completely flipped from being something everybody (including children) did to being seen as gross. I don't see how this arbitrary law is shown to have any effect whatsoever.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I literally just googled "cigarette plain packaging effectiveness" and there's tons of articles analysing it and they all conclude that it has made a difference ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿผโ€โ™‚๏ธ