Have you had kids that got caught up in smoking in their early teens whilst still at school and too young to buy smokes?
They could wrap the ciggies in toilet paper or newspaper - it wouldn't matter. It's what's inside that the kids want so they can be like their friends.
Abbott is showing he has his feet firmly planted in the realms of reality and not in the unrealistic ideas that packaging will stop the young ones from buying them. Nothing more than a political stunt, IMO.
I would think that most kids trying smokes would be too young to buy them - so how does changing the packaging help them? More likely an older kid buys them or nicks them from their parents. Brings them to school and sells them individually for a little profit.
Changing the packaging...pfft...rubbish when your adult kids tell you how they got addicted.
