According to a New Zealand study, removing all branding off tobacco and cigarette packets can prove to be an effective option for turning teenagers off the habit of smoking.

It was found by the Auckland study that the present graphic warnings on cigarette packs were designed to prevent smokers from having a smoke, but they also led teens to view smokers as undesirable, which was evident from descriptions such as “social outcasts” and “addicted”.

From in.news.yahoo.com:

Australia is the first country to announce a plan to force tobacco into plain packaging with large pictorial health warnings-a move the industry says it will fight.

From 2012, the only remnant of branding would be the name of the product, in uniform print. Gone would be the colours and attractive pictures.

“I think it would be hugely powerful for young people. The pack is the last bastion of tobacco industry promotion,” the New Zealand Herald quoted Auckland University researcher Judith McCool as saying.

McCool co-supervised master’s degree research by Lisa Webb in which 80 students aged 14 or 15 from six Auckland schools were interviewed about their attitudes to smoking, smokers, tobacco packaging and plain packets.

The study found that for teenagers the plain packets were dull, but they said that it enhanced the impact of the graphic health warnings.

“These perceptions were transferred to the act of cigarette smoking as an unattractive or uncool behaviour,” said the researchers.

The researchers said teenagers were left confused by the health messages on brightly colored packets alongside brand imagery that actually blunted effects of the warnings.

If you have a close look at the last few years, you will be surprised to know that members of the youth world have been able to create a distinctive niche by offering their advice and services. Nonetheless, these services have been applauded by one and all and this is the reason why the “older” society is now accepting its “younger” counterpart as a great support rather than cracking a joke or two, as it was in the past.

Since young population is most often the biggest part of every nation’s population, ignoring advice of young and still matured ones is like ignoring a useful advice for no reason. The fact that young minds think both from their heart and mind at the same time apart from giving due consideration to others in the fray is more than enough to suggest that their advice is something that can be easily relied and fair to all.

Now that the teenagers and young professionals have been able to leave a stamp on others, the world is now offering positive vibes of acceptance with open arms to youth and the varying roles played by them.

In short, it can be easily said that success and youth have finally merged for the better and the greatest beneficiary of this relationship is no one but we all, the society.