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If you smoke, would the government's plan to print graphic warnings on your cigarette packs induce you to finally quit?
Armed with new powers approved by Congress last year, the Food and Drug Administration is proposing warnings that include one containing an image of a man smoking through a tracheotomy hole in his throat; another depicting a body with a large scar running down the chest; and another showing a man who appears to be suffering a heart attack. Others have images of a corpse in a coffin and one with a toe tag in a morgue, diseased lungs and mouths and a mother blowing smoke into a baby's face.
I detest the filthy weed and the habit, having lost a relative and a good friend to lung cancer, so I asked some people I know who still smoke about graphic warnings on cigarette packs.
Every one of my admittedly small sample (eleven people) just shrugged and said they'd either ignore them, collect and trade them, or carry the pack in a cigarette case to cover up the pictures. They all agreed the campaign will be a boondoggle and a waste of money.
PLEASE keep your answers to whether you would be influenced by these pictures, and let's not get off on a tangent about smoker's rights. I'm curious because some studies DO show the effectiveness of this approach to quitting:
In a multi-country study published in the March 2007 issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, researchers found that more prominent text messages were more effective and graphic pictures even more so in affecting smokers' behaviors.
... (for instance) UK smokers were also more likely to report that the new warnings had led them to think about quitting, to think about the health risks of smoking, and had deterred them from having a cigarette compared to Australian and US smokers.
I'm thinking that some people will cut the pics off the packs and trade them on ebay.
If you don't wanna see the pics you can put your ciggs in a cigg holder.
They'll make sleeves you can buy to slide your pack into so you don't have to see it.
C'mon. This is all Nanny government nonsense. People are going to do what THEY WANT TO DO - regardless of what the government does to save them from themselves.
Mine go from the pack to the stainless steel cig case, so no, I don't think it would encourage me to quit, anymore than a pic of a damaged heart or the inside of cholesterol coated veins would get me to quit eating hamburgers...
I't just another stupid move by the government, it wont make a smoker stop, lets add pics of rotten livers on alcohol bottles, cancer ridden colons on meat packages and so forth.
Everyone knows the risks in smoking it's not a secret.
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don't think it will work, but it does get me thinking they mind as well do the same with bottles of alcohol..
i wonder if people would stop driving cars and trucks,!!! if they had big gruesome pictures of people killed in auto accidents plastered on the dashboard..
It's just another example of government out of control. Stop stealing our money and spending it on such ridiculous programs ... actually, leave people alone and stop with the fear mongering over cigarettes while pushing far more dangerous pharmaceutical poisons as healthy. The FDA is a disgrace .. if they say do it? Don't .... if they say don't ... then do it. That's the best formula.
Given the current financial situation, any well grounded American should be incensed at this prime example of federal bureaucratic boondoggling, and illegitimate use of the public funds.
Out of the several billion people who have purchased cigarettes since they were first packaged to sell, I'll guarantee you that not one of those people has ever looked at the package. for any reason.....!!!
Have you EVER looked at a package of anything you have ever purchased other that to identify it when ready to use it...?? Of course you haven't, nor has any other person alive or dead...
Most people have lives and don't spend a lot of time reading labels on the products they buy...
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