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Il Fumo Uccide - but they look good

Written by Martin Belam
Published 5 April, 2005
Categories: Other

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My parents bought some cigarettes back from Rome for my wife the other week, and they are the first thing for many years to make me want to smoke again - simply because I thought the packaging was so nice.

Il fumo danneggia gravemente te e chi ti sta intorno

As a bitter vitriolic ex-smoker if it was up to me there wouldn't be any opportunity to put attractive design onto cigarette packs - it would be wall-to-wall health warnings, and the cigarettes themselves would have an assortment of messages like "I'm Desperate For Cancer" embossed onto the side.

Still, honesty was always the best policy - when I was a student the cancer-stick du jour was a Death Cigarette

Posted by Martin Belam, April 5, 2005
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