All of what Canada is doing(removing flavored cigarettes, removing logos and designs on packaging, banning advertising, warning labels on package and now the cigarettes) is to discourage teen smoking.
It's working. Less and less teens are smoking(27% in the 90s, 14% in 2008, 5% in 2019 amd 3% in 2020).
Twisted Metal Black was the peak of the series. The 2012 reboot was pretty bad.
The TV series could have borrowed from the games a little more and explored the history of a character per episode and kept the arena based content.
The invented post-apocalyptic world and "milkman" plot goes against what the original games was about. Sadly the series will be left as a one season wonder.
All of what Canada is doing(removing flavored cigarettes, removing logos and designs on packaging, banning advertising, warning labels on package and now the cigarettes) is to discourage teen smoking.
It's working. Less and less teens are smoking(27% in the 90s, 14% in 2008, 5% in 2019 amd 3% in 2020).
In fact smoking is down across the board.
https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/canadian-tobacco-nicotine-survey/2020-summary.html