12-03-2021, 03:27 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-03-2021, 03:30 PM by Tufnell_Chimes.)
Gaff, I once spent six months sitting next to a bloke who spent the entire time I was there tweaking the colour purple to a piece of pet packaging, over and over again. Every product is minutely designed, pyschologically analysed and focus grouped to death - and that's before all the promo starts. You're looking at the shelf thinking you're doing the choosing - on the other side of the shelf you've a corporation spending millions to make sure you choose them - you haven't got a chance. You may think you make you're own decisions, but that's the idea - its far easier to get a consumer to buy into something if they believe its their idea. As you say, you smoked for years - who would actively poison themselves if they weren't being aggressively marketed to?
I also smoked for years and packed it in at thirty - took me about two years to drop from B&H through all the shades of Silk Cut before it became just ridiculous, but I've never had the urge to go back.
I also smoked for years and packed it in at thirty - took me about two years to drop from B&H through all the shades of Silk Cut before it became just ridiculous, but I've never had the urge to go back.