Canada(left) vs U.S.A(right) Marlboro ciggerate branding.
Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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Oh buddy, that’s a tame one. Most of our (Canada) cigarette/tobacco packaging has graphic medical pictures of tumours and cancer on the label. Now all packaging is just a dull brown shade too, no logos, no trademark colours. We’ve had the grim pics for at least 20 years.
While the horrific/disturbing photos do seem to help deter younger kids from starting, the seasoned smokers tend to just ignore them (myself foolishly included).
The woman who died was named Tarbox? Appropriate name, I guess.
They’re also expensive as fuck. One of the ways the health system is funded.
Im going on 4 weeks cold turkey! RAHHHHHH!!!!
It’s because those 5 extra cigarettes make a big difference.
20 sticks = no cancer
25 sticks = cancer
Interesting that Canada sells them in packs of 25, I’ve only ever seen 20 here in the US. No idea if there’s laws, or whatever. For the smokers I know, no amount of scary packaging will get them to stop. They know the risks, they’ve even watched someone go through lung cancer and die in their own home. Crazy how addictive they are.
Unpopular opinion: I’m glad the US cigarettes are healthier.
In India, they have graphic photos of lung cancer, plus every movie at the theater starts with a smoking warning if it’s there in the movie, with a PSA.
And, every time someone on screen smokes, a warning sign that Smoking Kills appears on the lower left or right (while the movie is playing).
At this point, it’s just annoying. I’ve seen kids still trying cigarettes, though. But I’m sure it’s made an impact overall in awareness. Many tribal communities and others have also been made aware of the perils by many NGOs.
Tarbox is a viscous case of Nominative Determinism
Edit: should be vicious, but viscous works too
The proper spelling is right there on the box. Is our society getting dumber or has it just stopped caring?
Looking at the picture makes me stressed…Anyone got a dart?
Gotta say I’ve never seen it spelled “ciggerate” before. Is that a regional version?
Australia has similar packages to Canada
I’m gonna go against the grain here, I don’t think there’s anyone in the US that doesn’t already know that smoking is really bad for them. Once you’ve already educated, really just don’t see what the point is of continuing to just shove it down their throats.
Educate, make sure their choices don’t hurt anyone else, help them when they’re ready to quit. But don’t punish them for it.
Because smokers in Canada end up as a burden on the healthcare system… whereas a smoker in the US is an asset.
“Free” Healthcare vs Pay-Per-Use.
….keeping people unhealthy is critical for the healthcare economy out here.
On the left side, everything except “Marlboro” is highlighting.
Same here in the UK. Advertising tobacco products has been banned for over 20 years. Now we see pictures of clogged arteries and dying lung cancer patients. They cost almost £15 for a pack of 20.
It’s more interesting to me the way you chose to spell cigarette.
That’s certainly a way to spell ‘cigarette’.
Barb Tarbox? Really? Come on, canada! You don’t need to make up names!!!
Damn it, they get 25 cigs, and in the US, we get 20. Wtf is that crap.
The US is going to start having large picture warnings on their cigarettes too. FDA passed a rule in 2020 and it finally got out of litigation last week. By 2026 all cigarette packaging will have them
“Smoking is bad.. so here’s 5 more cigs for you”
Can I smok ciggerate If I am pergante?
What the hell is a ciggerate
And yet Canada actually has a higher smoking rate than the US by about 1%
Devotes entire packaging to be anti smoking but gives you 5 extra cigs
Will we put close up photos of obese fat folds on chip bags next? Or disease liver pics on liquor bottles? I don’t smoke but cigarettes seem to just be a punching bag for moral outrage while so many other bad habits fly under the radar.
Wow, the US still doesn’t have packaging with warnings on them? Big tobacco still has a firm grip.
My dad died of lung cancer at 42.
Remember – don’t smoke ciggerates if you’re pergnate.
Very wanky colour name but it’s called “opaque couché”, scientifically the ugliest colour in the world.
I’m sure they exaggerate the danger of a ciggerate.
You get 5 extra cigarettes in each pack? Lucky devils!!!
Is Barb Tarbox a real name? Because it sounds fake, especially on a cigarette pack.
Honestly just let people do whatever. Let’s go back to a time without warnings. Let nature solve itself.
As recently as 2001, idiots like Mike Pence have argued that cigarettes are totally safe. Most thing happen (or don’t happen) because of $$$.
Barb Tarbox sounds like a fake name. I’m sure it could be real, but it kind of sounds like Beth McSmoker to me.
The other mildly interesting fact here is that the Marlboro brand in Canada is actually owned by a competitor to Philip Morris who owns the brand elsewhere in the world
Before plain packaging, the internationally recognisable Marlboro branding was used on a Philip Morris owned brand called Rooftop instead (still available but no longer with the branding)
25 ciggies in a pack? Nice
Guess this helps remove the cool factor
Stupid if you don’t know it will kill you by now.
And yet, I believe the Europeans smoke more than Americans
Barb Tarbox.
Thats really unfair, they get 5 more per pack.
> ciggerate
It’s right there 5 times, for shit’s sake.
This reminded me that I had a dream last night that I went to some country and you could get a standard box of cigarettes that had 50 cigarettes in it and they came in packs of four. But that was like a standard cigarette box size. Anyways, thank you for coming to my TED talk.
Hey how come they get 25.
Yeah but Joe camel has been smoking em for decades and he’s one of the coolest mofos ever