Soulless Tobacco Containers.

[Jim Schweggler]

Gee thanks had no idea there might be some risk involved, now give me back my artwork! This will be going in a jar posthaste with the proper label. I can have knockoff sour patch kid weed gummies delivered to my house with no ID check in an extremely similar bright packaging to the real candy. Would I be worried about my kids grabbing a tin of pipe tobacco or bright coloured sugar-coated THC candy? All those teenagers hanging out behind the high school smoking their knockoff Petersons and cobs. This container is par for the course in a world of strip-malls, brutalist office buildings and crowded streets of gray people. Anyways not trying to break forum rules, but just think this is quite the juxtaposition between two products on offer in my area. Any ideas on repurposing these tins?

 

[Rockyrepose]

 

[anotherbob]

you can always make stickers and the like if you want. The soul has always been in the leaf by the way.

 

[Jim Schweggler]

you can always make stickers and the like if you want. The soul has always been in the leaf by the way.

I do make stickers for my jars, but I just love the details and think the growers, blenders and everyone in between deserve to be able to put their hard-earned product into something beautiful or that at least looks good, a reflection of all the moving parts coming together.

 

[wolfman9]

I mostly buy bulk, and then jar it myself, so this issue escapes me for the most part.
That said, I do find the whole warning label thing overdone, and your tins look worse than I remember.
Last time I bought a tin was some MacBarren’s Plumbcake, and it had the old style art.
If they’re worried about it appealing to kids, just stay with a antique aesthetic, something that would have been at home in Victorian Britain or something, not flashy, but still traditional and refined, the young won’t even bother looking Since it’s not neon and boasting some idiotic tik-tok “celebrity”.

 

[MattRVA]

Gee thanks had no idea there might be some risk involved, now give me back my artwork! This will be going in a jar posthaste with the proper label. I can have knockoff sour patch kid weed gummies delivered to my house with no ID check in an extremely similar bright packaging to the real candy. Would I be worried about my kids grabbing a tin of pipe tobacco or bright coloured sugar-coated THC candy? All those teenagers hanging out behind the high school smoking their knockoff Petersons and cobs. This container is par for the course in a world of strip-malls, brutalist office buildings and crowded streets of gray people. Anyways not trying to break forum rules, but just think this is quite the juxtaposition between two products on offer in my area. Any ideas on repurposing these tins?


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I agree. Even around here when I go to a “tobacco” store it looks like the Easter bunny exploded, bright packaging everywhere, pushing delta-8 gummies, flower, nicotine vapes and accessories. It’s ridiculous to walk into an adult store and feel like I’m in a cheap candy store/arcade dollar store. I wish they would drop the warnings and especially the plain packaging for our Northern brothers and sisters. No kids give a damn about tobacco anymore.

 

[fireground_piper]

I kind of like the plain labels in a weird way. Like the Sillems labels, there’s a simplicity to it.

 

[AroEnglish]

I kind of like the plain labels in a weird way. Like the Sillems labels, there’s a simplicity to it.

Yeah me too. But I totally agree that there’s a double standard for weed.

 

[Doctor Chopper]

In Europe they take up half the tins with warning labels on all tobacco. The cigarettes are 3/4 covered with a grotesque picture of cancer and malformations. Here is a picture of my tin I bought in Italy.



I apologize for the size of photo, I can’t figure out how to shrink it on my iPad.

 

[augiebd]

The down side is that some manufacturers decided not to do plain packaging so we lost access to some products in tins at local B&Ms.

 

[bullet08]

Didn't know tin and tobacco had souls. Pagan propaganda?

 

[warren]

I'm guessing most manufacturers enjoy skipping the expense of label design and printing, keeping it simple and cheap. My wife used to buy wine sometimes based simply on the label. I'm guessing there are maybe a handful of pipe smokers who factor in the label appeal when deciding to try or not. Different strokes I suppose.

 

[OverMountain]

Dunhill had some classic labels. It’s all part of the experience, and a post-modern soulless tin detracts from the overall experience to me.

 

[huckleberry]

I definitely think the warning labels are BS Government intervention. If you haven't heard/seen the warnings by now, you're living under a rock anyway!

 

[Zamora]

In Europe they take up half the tins with warning labels on all tobacco. The cigarettes are 3/4 covered with a grotesque picture of cancer and malformations. Here is a picture of my tin I bought in Italy.

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I apologize for the size of photo, I can’t figure out how to shrink it on my iPad.

It's insane how the EU forces every member nation to comply with this and other stuff. US states have more sovereignty than EU nations

The down side is that some manufacturers decided not to do plain packaging so we lost access to some products in tins at local B&Ms.

Part of the problem is that every country with such a policy has their own specifications for it, So a plain package in Australia won't be acceptable in Canada. In Ireland it's required that the warning text is in English and Irish, just in case any of the 5 people who only speak Irish are unaware smoking causes cancer.

 

[Zamora]

I agree. Even around here when I go to a “tobacco” store it looks like the Easter bunny exploded, bright packaging everywhere, pushing delta-8 gummies, flower, nicotine vapes and accessories. It’s ridiculous to walk into an adult store and feel like I’m in a cheap candy store/arcade dollar store. I wish they would drop the warnings and especially the plain packaging for our Northern brothers and sisters. No kids give a damn about tobacco anymore.

The UK and France fortunately exempted cigars and pipe tobacco. Now some Irish people on the Republic side will drive over to the North side to get their cigars and pipe tobacco with proper branding.

 

[Flatfish]

Even the boring tins are nicer than what we see in the UK.
Example below.

 

[pappymac]

I'm guessing most manufacturers enjoy skipping the expense of label design and printing, keeping it simple and cheap. My wife used to buy wine sometimes based simply on the label. I'm guessing there are maybe a handful of pipe smokers who factor in the label appeal when deciding to try or not. Different strokes I suppose.

+1
For the record, I have never smoked the label off a tin of pipe tobacco. I'm more interested in what the components of the blend are and who makes it.

 

[NC TX ID pipeman]

Even the boring tins are nicer than what we see in the UK.
Example below.

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This one is insane to extreme..woow...

 

[DollarStoreChili]

I see a "grrrr scary big tobacco is coming for your kids" billboard on my way to work every day. I'll continue scoffing every time I see it until there's a "soda companies are making your kids fat" sign parked right next to it.