should it be so that you are expecting a focus mostly on the joys of Marlboro what ostensibly exists for the Turkish market, no. i have done a post on that, look you see, which you can as point of fact see if you wish by clicking here. this is all more to do with the curious, possibly quite class, warning picture on the current packets of them what i have.
for those unaware it was so that, what, ten or so years ago someone somewhere decided to have rather sinister "warning pictures" on packets of cigarettes. all colours and branding were gone (at least on officially and heavily taxed packets) and the focal point would be a picture that had every intention of scaring you off smoking. you know, like the pictures they don't put on alcohol.
quite controversial, some of them. but not necessarily (or actually) for the reasons them what insisted on the pictures would have hoped. there was that time, for instance, that they put either Ant or Dec out of Ant and Dec on the image, not forgetting the time they also used a doctored image of John Terry. yes, that one. also they used a picture of someone who(m) had had a leg (or arm) amputated, stating that it was due to smoking, when it turned out the person shown had never smoked in their life. which was also the case with an unfortunate male model duped into posing for a picture which suggested that smoking cigarettes had made him impotent.
rather like the UK it is the case that Turkey (or, correctly, Türkiye) are outside of the EU. for various sorts of reasons the EU staunchly defend the copyright of the images they use for cigarette warnings, preventing non-EU yet still European nations from using them. so it is that other countries, despite being free not to have images on, have to come up with their own. an added bonus of getting Turkish Marlboro, other than the (considerably) more agreeable price, is seeing their warning pictures.
this image, shown clearer below, is quite class. a bit avant garde as i suggested (or stated) in the title, or leaning towards "performance art theatre", except just as a still image. which i think makes vague sense, or at the least i will trust you to know what i mean.
from what i can work out or otherwise ascertain (i am not all that clever) it is showing a child doing a sort of quasi-mimic thing of what the adult is doing, only without a cigarette. so pretend smoking cigarettes is, presumably, also rather bad for you. no, i did not know that.
more impressive than the picture (perhaps) is that wording there. can't say i have absolutely no idea what it means as i am about to guess, but there's an awesome level of poetic joy in "cocuklar gorur cocuklar yapar". yes, of course i could do one of them google things to see what it means, but finding out stuff via other means is more stimulating. taking a guess here would be that it is kind of a Turkish equivalent of "monkey see, monkey do", warning that others shall imitate certain actions when you may not wish them to do so.
yes, indeed i do know someone who is quite clever. my chum Spiros, the greatest legal mind of his generation, is not too bad with languages. by coincidence he also has some of what one might call Türkiye experience, in that he has a fondness for big, hairy, sweaty Turkish men, especially ones with well kept bushy moustaches. i asked him, but (alas) he got (somewhat) distracted by the idea of one of the words sounding like "cockular". he then proceeded to tell me all sorts of lurid things that i wished i did not now know, none of which can be shared here.
just, for the sake of completeness, the usual disclaimer here. smoking cigarettes is, apparently, very bad for you, and you should either not start doing such or if you do then seek assistance immediately in quitting. or something like that.
birbirinize karşı nazik olun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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