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New Packs Hit Store Shelves
Jump to full article: KOAT-TV Ch. 7 (Albuquerque, NM), 2009-06-24
Intro: "A lot of the issues with the new packaging are affecting us," said Denise Balko, with Tobacco Road.
New packaging, new rules and new federal government authority are hitting cigarettes. Packs will no longer have terms such as mild, light and low and those are just some of the changes.
"I don't think you can legislate behavior and it's not something the government should be involved in," said tobacco customer Bob Martinez.
The tobacco industry must also stop giving free samples and giving free clothing with cigarette company logos on it. Customers and workers alike said they are weary about what it will do to an industry where they say an uphill battle is already being fought.
And these new regulations come just a few months after the prices of cigarettes went up 150 percent all over the country.
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