ALL POSTS TAGGED cigarettes

Cigarettes Will Kill You. Plain Packaging will Kill Cigarettes.

Posted Aug 25 in Opinion tagged , , by

Here’s a link to an article I wrote for The Drum on the impact of plain packaging of cigarettes.  It’s had over 300 comments – most from people with views very different to my own.  I find the topic endlessly fascinating, and have written about it previously for The Punch, here.

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Cigarettes, Coffins, Branding, and Death

Posted May 02 in Opinion tagged , , , , by

This is a photo of my brothers and I carrying my dad’s coffin. You may have noticed the coffin is painted (by my talented sister Tania Bachen) as a carton of cigarettes, Marlboro Reds to be exact, it was his brand. Before dad died he also asked me to give his eulogy and remind everyone [...]

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