If a smoker takes his or her pack out 20 times a day, every time its an advertisement and it has the endorsement of the person thats holding the pack, (exposing them to) kids that may see their parents packs or kids that may see their friends around the schoolyard or in their community. Among the countries that have adopted plain packaging for tobacco products are Australia, the United Kingdom and France, and research has shown that removing logos, colours and brand images helps make them less appealing to consumers, including young people
Hyper-liberals are unnecessarily clutching their pearls and being all "But the children!" about something utterly inconsequential (although it's more likely that no one freaked out about Popeye's pipe, and that it was removed as a preemptive safeguard against what admittedly would've been inevitable backlash had it been included in the new version.) On the other hand, there is a solid argument to be had for the fact that the new Popeye, being all fancy and computer generated, looks a hell of a lot more realistic than the old cartoon, so the presence of a pipe might not only be more noticeable, but that on a more human-feeling hero
This size is commonly used and is also easy to carry
(In 1953, the tobacco industry, reeling from the growing number of published studies in peer-reviewed medical journals implicating cigarette smoking as a cause of lung cancer, set up the Tobacco Industry Research Committee and hired Dr
