Sentences with phrase «of cigarette packets»

Aquatic blue and green coloured glass combines with speakers the size of cigarette packets, playing back fragments of poetry.

What's more, it is about the size of a cigarette packet plus a laptop and costs only a few thousand dollars, so one could be tucked in the back of every ambulance.

Well, if you think an ftp on a NOAA website is the equivalent of a cigarette packet, maybe we ought to rethink who's behaving like the tobacco industry.

Not exact matches

Figures from Australia - which imposed plain packaging three years before the UK - found that restricting the colour, size and font on cigarette packets led to a noticeable drop in the number of people smoking.

Australia banned branded tobacco products in 2012, and just last year the UK made a similar move by ordering that all cigarettes and tobacco be sold in plain green packets adorned with graphic images of smoke - induced ailments.

Up to 89 per cent of the cost of a packet of cigarettes is the excise duty levied by the Treasury, prompting pro-smoking group Forest to argue cigarettes are almost a fully nationalised product.

Getting rid of flashy cigarette packets means I can sell more birthday cards and less sympathy cards.

The government may be about to risk billions of pounds in lawsuits, as it mulls whether to ban branded cigarette packets.

Stephen Pound, MP for Ealing Acton reportedly chided women protesting at the sums they would lose, saying «It's no more than the price of a couple of packets of cigarettes.»

Currently if children see a packet of cigarettes behind the sweet counter or in someone's hand they see bright innocent colours, glamorous designs and distinctive holograms — all of which appeal to children to make them think that smoking is a normal or cool thing to do.

Pressure is growing for the government to rid cigarette packets of their designs and branding ahead of a parliamentary vote next month.

The changes, effective from 6 p.m. on 21 March 2012, add 37 pence to the price of a packet of 20 cigarettes, 37 pence to a packet (25g) of hand - rolling tobacco, 12 pence to a packet of 5 small cigars, and 20 pence to a packet (25g) of pipe tobacco.

Proposals are being aired to ban cigarette vending machines, hide point - of - sale displays of ten packs and put photo warnings on packets.

Compassionate Conservatism wasn't dreamed up on the back of one of the Premier's cigarette packets.

Altria, the parent company of cigarette giant Philip Morris, released a packet of information arguing that the hike would be an unfair burden that would hurt consumers and retailers, and could lead to increased illegal trafficking.

In 1985, research for a television documentary showed again that a range of substances could give a false result, including materials found in cigarette packets and postcards.

The standard warning on cigarette packs in the United States is currently found in small print on the side of the packet.

For 4 weeks, smokers were given their preferred brand of cigarettes in packaging that had been modified; some packets contained warning text only - such as «cigarettes cause fatal lung disease» - some contained warning text plus one of nine graphics depicting the dangers of smoking, while others consisted of warning text, graphics plus additional text detailing the risk of every cigarette smoked.

This research supports another study reported by Medical News Today earlier this year, which found a combination of health warning graphics and text on cigarette packets increased knowledge about the dangers of smoking among young adults, compared with text - only warnings.

In 2011, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a final rule that required tobacco companies to include color graphics on cigarette packets that depict the negative health implications of smoking.

Flagging down passing cars gained us a packet of cigarettes and a half - empty bottle of caña liquor, but no gas.

Taguig is a maze of ramshackle markets, makeshift eateries and tiny sari - sari stores, where men in string vests and baseball caps reach between rusting iron bars to make micro-purchases of Nescafe sachets and rough local cigarettes (sold singly, rarely by the packet).

It soon becomes apparent that you can become the hired hands of various NPC's, and Riddick's powerful reputation can also earn you a fair few side missions, which if completed rewards you with cigarette packets (unlocks various artwork and movie stills) or currency, which can be made use of in various ways.

Autobiographical in the modernist and realist painting tradition, his paintings depict his own personal effects that include biker paraphernalia such as jackets, boots, helmets and gloves, alongside his packets of cigarettes and books.

Paintings of ketchup packets, her mother's handwritten notes, marionette dolls, expiration date stickers, cigarette butts, price tags, laundry tags, and garden gnomes are interjected by oversized sculptures of gum drops, matchsticks, a finger, a hospital bracelet, and bread loaf expiration tags.

Pantone 448c and its muddied, brown awfulness, was deemed the world's ugliest color by a group of researchers looking for a color that would help make cigarette packets as unappealing as possible.

Ateliers des Artistes de la Ville de Marseille, France (2006); Grey Flags Sculpture Center, New York (2006, catalogue); Mafia, or One Unopened Packet of Cigarettes Standard, Oslo (2006); and the 51st Venice Biennale (2005).

He views the act of smoking as a microcosm within itself: «The cigarette packet is possible lives, the cigarette it's own actual life, the lighter is God because it gives fuel to the whole thing and the ashtray is a graveyard, it's like death».

Highly autobiographical, exhibits featured personal photographs, and a number of very intimate items, like the packet of cigarettes her uncle was holding when he was killed in a car accident.

He became fascinated by the advertising of cigarettes and, back in Britain, made a series of works based on the cigarette packet.

The 49 - year - old, who grew up in Margate, Kent, is perhaps best known for her work My Bed, which featured an unmade bed littered with condoms, cigarette packets and a pair of knickers.

Favoring everyday materials and objects over monumental gestures, Wentworth has transformed expectations and considerations of sculpture, saying in a conversation with the critic Stuart Morgan, «I find cigarette packets folded up under table legs more monumental than a Henry Moore.

Other pieces in the New Blood exhibition include a vibrating mummy clutching a packet of cigarettes and a collection of stuffed horses arranged on a table to resemble Henry Moore sculptures.

Instead he will say: «if you continue smoking two packets of cigarettes a day, there's a good change you're gonna die of lung cancer».

By working with common, recycled items, such as cardboard and cigarette packets, Gilmour concentrates on the medium in its natural state, often preserving the original printing, tape, and labels to capture an essence of authenticity.»

Watching someone writing an email on a Storm is like watching an antelope trying to open a packet of cigarettes....

Torn off bits of cardboard from cigarette packets or other cardboard objects to make a roach» (a sort of filter)