cigarette packaging restrictions

It has been interesting to note while reading the views of the critics of the Federal Government's anti cigarette packaging measures read a typical example here they seem to have focused on two lines of defence;
1) the measures won't reduce smoking
2) the nanny state is imposing on us again
One of the intents of the Bill however is to de-glamorize the effect of pulling out a cigarette from a shiny cigarette packet and smoking with friends, if it's in a drab olive cardboard packet (the theory at least) is that will have an effect on future sales.

And interestingly the other thing that the critics of the bill are yet to pick up on is that if this Bill becomes law, just watch the skyrocket in sales of shiny "glamorous" cigarette cases. Why carry an olive packet around when you can use a cigarette case? Just watch them come back into style.

And while I have some sympathy for the nanny state defence, at the end of the day if the state is going to impose laws on us "for our own good", the cancerous addiction of smoking is not a bad place to start.