SMOKING KILLS
It seems the US has just recently adopted the giant smoking advisory labels as seen internationally, in countries such as Canada and the UK. I was shocked to see the giant SMOKING KILLS label I was so used to seeing in England on my Mom's cigarettes today. I never expected we'd get it too!
Thoughts?
Soon you'll have to use the metric system too
Kefka's coming, look intimidating!
Have a nice day!!
It's good since it's the truth. Smoking do kill.
I'm skeptical. Does empirical evidence of this exist?
I'm far to lazy to take a photo, but there is a giant label on my Mom's latest box that takes up nearly 50% of the front of the cigarette pack, and she buys her cigs locally now that it's illegal for her to order them out of state and this avoid NY's crazy smoking taxes.
EDIT: Not the most credible source, but it shows some of the photos.
http://www.freetobacco.info/world-to...-local-habits/
I was moreso talking about "smoking kills". I am skeptical of this information.
Originally Posted by Ultima Shadow
The Emphysema Fairy plays favorites.
wonder if the messages ever kept anyone from not smoking the pack they already bought
I always found these warnings funning. like "Wow, I didn't know that!" I understand the American public was lied to for a while about the effects of tobacco products, but I'm pretty sure we are all on the same page now. If you choose to smoke it's your decision. Before you know it they will start putting warnings on pop/soda "drinking excessive amounts will make you fat and give you type 2 diabetes!!!!!....FATTY!" You know, shame people into not drinking it. I feel like JEL is just wasting their breath at this point.
I have to agree with Tarshish. This sort of thing now is just the government trying to act like it's doing something beneficial, by demanding something that will have no impact but also is completely uncontroversial.
It's also obnoxiously hypocritical. Does alcohol have to have this label too? Alcohol abuse kills, it is addictive, and if you OD or do something retarded while drunk it can kill you in one day instead of after decades of abuse. But smoking requires more regulation because it's icky. Just like marijuana is criminalized (despite being less harmful than alcohol by any reasonable standard) because it's icky.
I never understood this nonsense; no one is going to be deterred from smoking by the labels. I doubt a single human being has ever seen that and thought, ", I better not smoke anymore."
When I see anti-smoking advertisements, it makes me want to smoke more. But I'm lazy. I only go through a pack of cloves every month or so.
I find it absurd that it's okay to have radio and tv commercials on anti-smoking, but the cigarette ads are banned.
Kids are little
That must be why they banned candy, cigarettes, too.
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