images now required on all cigarette packs per fda. there are 9 in total. i cant wait for the hardened cirrhosis liver pics on elegant wine bottles or on a Bud Can. maybe even a jaundiced face of ted kennedy. im pretty sure people will collect the cool ones and trade them like baseball cards.
I'm interested to see how smokers react to this and what effect it has, if any on smoking habits. I predict nobody will give a sh!t but perhaps there's a chance it could scare off young would be first time smokers. The pictures are pretty intense. Do you get to choose which warnings you want to put on your cigs or do you have to use all of them?
Those are definitely some graphic pictures, but I also wonder if it will stop people from smoking. I think that motivation has to come from within...
i saw an old black dude in a convenience store the other day. He was across from me when I saw he had some greenish material below his neck. But then I thought I saw it moving. Upon further inspection, I noticed it was some green phlegm coming from a hole in his throat. About 4 inches or so trickling down his neck. it must have been so common he doesnt bother anymore. I got my coffee or whatever and as I was leaving I heard the cashier say what kind again? he was buying cigarettes or cigars. I couldnt tell which. it was pretty nasty. i think I had coffee because i remember i almost threw it out. No it probably wont make anyone quit since they are addicted but it may discourage the younger lads from starting.
Sometimes, people just need the right imagery for things to really sink in. They actually have a similar campaign in China. The packs say things in huge letters like "CIGARETTES WILL KILL YOU" with a skull and crossbones beneath it.
Whoa...that is REALLY disgusting! But he's still smoking. Lots of people do that. When my dad was in physical therapy after his heart attack in '94, he'd decided to stop smoking, but the majority of the peeps he met in therapy? No...they were STILL going to smoke. I wonder how many of those that didn't kick the habit are still around 16 years later?
Most of my friends my age have quit smoking. But the two that still smoke will never quit. They just don't care if it kills them. They figure something else will kill them anyway. Most that have quit did it because it grosses out so many people these days. I would have hated living in 1940 when everybody smoked and they smoked anywhere they wanted to -- on planes, in restaurants, in classrooms. Smoking was still permitted in classrooms my freshman year at LSU.
I guess it's just possible that you wouldn't have really noticed it if you lived back then? I always hated cigarette smoke growing up with two smokers, but I didn't realize that I must've actually smelled like smoke all of the time, too. I feel sorry for my students who come to school smelling like cigarette smoke. I guess that so many more folks were smoking in the 70's when I was a little kid that MAYBE I didn't stand out as "that poor smoker's kid." So many cities up here in North Texas are completely smokeless that it's a shock to my daughters whenever we go somewhere where smoking is allowed. For example, the smoking areas at Disney World sort of blew their minds.
