It has never really gone away and has therefore not made a massive comeback, says Jacke, who is the deputy managing director of C:pop, a research centre for popular music and creative industries at the University of Paderborn in Germany
Plain packaging has been implemented in Australia (2012), France (2016), United Kingdom (2016), Norway (2017), Ireland (2017), New Zealand (2018), Saudi Arabia (2019), Turkey (2019), Thailand (2019), Canada (2019), Uruguay (2019), Slovenia (2020), Belgium (2020), Israel (2020), Singapore (2020), Netherlands (2020), Denmark (2021), and Guernsey (2021), and will be implemented in Hungary (2022), Jersey (2022) and Myanmar (2022)
Based on established relationships between exposure to cigarette advertising and adolescent smoking, exposure to increasingly pervasive e-cigarette advertising and accessibility of e-cigarettes in retail stores may be associated with this uptick
Were trying to get people to think were not just another pack of cigarettes on the shelf, he said
More than a storage piece, it becomes a keepsake of that glamorous, rebellious decade
