Tag Archives: packaging

EU Owns the Copyright on Graphic Picture Warnings?

Posted on January 11, 2019 by the archivist

Via Mark Jarratt in the comments, and James Delingpole: London: Australia has come to the rescue of Britain, providing the government with its world-leading plain packaging images for cigarettes, to use free-of-charge in the case of a chaotic no deal Brexit. … Continue reading →

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Stamp Collecting

Posted on May 15, 2018 by the archivist

I’m becoming a stamp collector. When I was about 10 years old I had a small stamp collection. I think I had about 5 stamps.  But I soon got bored with it, and I stopped collecting stamps. My brother was … Continue reading →

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Start Smoking

Posted on December 3, 2017 by the archivist

Usually when my eyes fall on one of the antismoking messages on “plain” packaging, they instantly recoil away in disgust. So I found it a little odd this morning when they settled on a new message – one I hadn’t … Continue reading →

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Images of Oesophageal Cancer

Posted on November 21, 2017 by the archivist

Chris Snowdon a few days back, quoting from an editorial in the Lancet: There is no excuse to ignore regulatory interventions for access, advertisements, and unit cost that are shown to reduce alcohol consumption. Like tobacco, the longer the delay … Continue reading →

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The Cancer Metastasizes

Posted on March 28, 2017 by the archivist

Tobacco companies are warning other companies what’s coming down the track:   MT popped along to the unimaginatively-titled International Food & Drink Event this week, a giant trade fair at London’s ExCel, where supermarket buyers trawl for the next big … Continue reading →

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On The Banks Of The Volga

Posted on March 24, 2017 by the archivist

H/T MJM for this shocking video that I hadn’t seen before: It really demonstrates just how murderous Tobacco Control really is. I keep the Wall Of Hate (also the work of MJM) in my right hand margin. But the Wall … Continue reading →

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Inklings

Posted on February 7, 2017 by the archivist

I saw something rather strange in a car park a few days ago. I had parked, and had just returned with my shopping, which I was placing inside my car. There was a car parked next to me, with the … Continue reading →

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Smirking Causes Lung Cancer

Posted on January 20, 2017 by the archivist

This story is a couple of months old: A Spanish man is suing health officials after discovering a photo of himself having spinal surgery being used as a cigarette health warning. The picture of the 54-year-old from Galicia shows him … Continue reading →

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Lunch at the Restaurant Fournaise

Posted on November 19, 2016 by the archivist

Yesterday I came across a painting – Lunch at the Restaurant Fournaise – by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Since Renoir died in 1919, it must have been painted some years before the outbreak of WW1, depicting as it does a scene of idyllic … Continue reading →

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Shouting People Down

Posted on September 29, 2016 by the archivist

A couple of people have mentioned the new “plain packs”. Maybe these are an example? And they have the nerve to call it “plain packaging”? That’s really just another lie in a very long litany of lies. They’ve swept the … Continue reading →

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