The EU believes smoking has been getting a hard time of it lately, and has therefore come up with a massive publicity campaign to make cigarette packets look cooler to young people.
At least, that’s the only explanation I can think of for this picture:
Of course, the coolest cigarette packet design ever was the one for the short-lived Death Cigarettes brand, which despite being hugely successful was inexplicably short-lived.
Or rather, it became all too explicable when I found out that for some unaccountable reason all the other cigarette manufacturers weren’t too keen on their products being sold alongside black packets with a skull and crossbones motif and threatened a boycott, thus forcing Death into the mail-order business – and, since selling fags by post is intrinsically silly, ultimately into oblivion.
This might even get me to take it up. And so many to collect!
[Bill Hicks]
"Smoking while pregnant can lead to low birth weight"
Hey I think I’ve found my brand.
[/Bill Hicks]
And <A HREF="http://europa.eu.int/comm/mediatheque/photo/select/tabac/p-010904-00-12.jpg>this one</A> is just plain stupid.