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(Nov. 10) -- Images of corpses, rotting teeth and diseased lungs will take up half the space on a pack of cigarettes, under federal proposals unveiled today.
The graphic new labels are designed to scare smokers into quitting by showing what can happen to them.
I can't be the only person who remembers "Tracheotomy Man" from Jr. High, am I????
I went to school in the 70's and early 80's and we were shown over and over that "smoking is bad" - but still students lit up. So, showing a corpse on a pack of Marlboro Lights is going to suddenly make someone go: "Oh, Golly Gee Goobers, smoking is bad, I will stop now"??
You can't tell me students today aren't told that cigarettes, booze, and drugs are bad for them!
But yet the fed and state happily take the taxes - no blood stains on their hands!!
Maybe the schools should do this: When I was 8 years old - my best friend snuck a couple of his Dad's Winstons and we each lit one up and each took a long drag......after both of us convulsed for 10 minutes, we wondered why anyone would do something that gross. Guess what - it worked!!
But yet the fed and state happily take the taxes - no blood stains on their hands!!
Can you even imagine all the state & fed programs that would stop once tobacco is no longer for sale? Yep then the govie will come up with a new tax to try to replace it. They put sin taxes on smokes in my state but not alcohol go figure.
It is awful to smoke I know did it for over 30 years.
(Nov. 10) -- Images of corpses, rotting teeth and diseased lungs will take up half the space on a pack of cigarettes, under federal proposals unveiled today.
The graphic new labels are designed to scare smokers into quitting by showing what can happen to them.
while in the surface this seems like it might be a good idea it really is dumb.
The Gov't forgets that the public is hardened to these photos by all the CSI & Cop TV show that always show gross dissection of the human body as part of the show.
while in the surface this seems like it might be a good idea it really is dumb.
The Gov't forgets that the public is hardened to these photos by all the CSI & Cop TV show that always show gross dissection of the human body as part of the show.
Excellent point! I hadn't thought of that - we are a pretty desensitized society.
Are they going to show all the damage done to the body after eating genetically mutated food? What about hormone injected meat?
How idiotic!
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