Graphic Visual Messages on Cigarette Packages
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By now, everyone is familiar with the printed messages on cigarette packages. It warns of the dangers of smoking. The health advisory is such an accepted part of the packaging that it goes largely ignored. In the United Kingdom, the health warnings will be delivered with accompanying graphic images:
“The UK will next week become one of the first European countries to introduce graphic images on cigarette packets to warn about the dangers of smoking.
The 15 different images will include pictures of a diseased lung and heart surgery being performed.”
link: Graphic images to target smokers
Some people have complained that the images are far too graphic and unpleasant. The same could be said of the results of smoking on human tissue.
Catherine Forsythe
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leftystrat
October 4th, 2008
at 4:12pm
I’m US, not UK, but I think it’s pretty gross. I’m talking about the graphics and smoking.
However, I stand by smokers’ rights to do whatever they’re doing to themselves, provided they’re not doing it to others. They could change the name to Marlboro Instant Death and it would have no effect on smoking. It’s harder to stop smoking tobacco than most criminalized drugs.
This country is particularly nasty to smokers. When an area needs money, they pile another tax on tobacco. Five bucks a pack? I don’t even smoke and it bothers me.
What happens when they go after chocolate? That’s when I’ll arm myself. You don’t *$&# with a man’s chocolate :)
Bob Dozier
October 5th, 2008
at 6:54am
To think it dosen’t cost the government anything for people to smoke is not true. Smoking creates so many health problems (I smoked for 48 years) I quit smoking 10 years ago, It finally sunk in that to spend $100.99 a month to ruin my health and then spend almost $500.00 for health insurance dosn’t make sense. I have been blessed with good health and very seldom see a doctor. The human body runs on oxygen and smoking clogs your lungs. So you don’t get the required oxygen to operate and repair your body. Sure quitting is not easy but you can do it for yourself.
Bob Johnson
October 5th, 2008
at 10:45am
As a non-smoker, I applaud any effort to limit or curtail smoking. Although I generally respect the rights of everyone to engage in legal activities (smoking is still legal!), the simple fact that second hand smoke is as deadly as actually smoking a cigarette yourself makes me LOVE these images if one person puts down a pack instead of buying it.
stlhobbit
October 5th, 2008
at 1:13pm
Our freedoms come with responsibilities. The freedom to smoke carries the responsibility of not imposing one’s smoke pollution on those who do not smoke, as well as the responsibility of not imposing the increased medical care & expenses for the consequences of smoking on the collective insurance costs on the rest of us.
Enough talk about smokers’ rights - let’s start talking about smokers’ responsibilities to the rest of us!
Tinman
October 5th, 2008
at 6:47pm
Right here in the police state of the USA they do unconstitutional things like single out certain groups and tax the hell out of them. It’s not right. I’m a non smoker, don’t even like the smell of smoke, but even I can recognize an injustice when I see it.
It’s funny how the tobacco industry is what made this country, and now the gov’t is doing everything they can to put them out of business.
If someone wants to smoke, it should be their right to do so without having to pay exorbant prices.
And now they’re starting the push on smokeless tobacco, which don’t affect anyone (like second hand smoke is supposed to).
Like leftystrat implied, what next? Chocolate? Fat? Salt? Let’s outlaw everything that’s “bad” for people, especially alcohol, which is the most abused “drug” in the world and causes billions of deaths and billions of dollars in damages every year……
Xseraph
October 6th, 2008
at 6:12am
Canada has had graphic warnings on cigarette packages since 2000
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hl-vs/tobac-tabac/legislation/label-etiquette/graph/index-eng.php
Though the impact of the graphic warnings on consumers doesn’t appear to be having a huge effect…
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=0e46feef-aef1-4372-b7ca-9b76faadc750