Mirror 'vote' highlights lack of public enthusiasm for plain packaging

This made me laugh.

The Mirror asked the most loaded question I have ever read and still couldn't get a majority of their predominantly Labour supporting readers to vote in favour of plain packaging.

Here's the question:

A tobacco firm gave Tory MPs £50k worth of freebies as as the industry fights the planned plain box laws. Should cigarettes be sold in plain packaging?

The result was 50-50 yet five of the six comments they published highlighted the futility of the policy while the sixth ("Yes, but they should stop making cigarettes altogether") was on the barking end of the spectrum.

If that's the best they can do ...