Here's a newsflash for you...

[zsdersw]

... cigarettes are addictive, can kill you, and second-hand smoke can harm children!

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/10/cigarette.warnings/index.html?hpt=Sbin

Really? Why do we need to force these things via government?

The bottom line is that everyone knows cigarettes are bad for you and others. People either don't care and live with the consequences or they don't smoke in the first place.

Forcing tobacco companies to put these images on every pack is, in addition to a measure I'm philosophically opposed to, a lot of work and effort for which there will be no reduction in the number of smokers.

 

[manimal]

I would choose the brand with the trachiotomy... where can I get one of those put in so I can start smoking?


would be funny if they legalized weed and they showed fat hippies eating brownies with natty dreads on the box saying " do you want to look like this?"

 

[SpatiallyAware]

It's pretty sad to think about the wasted resources spent on crap like this. I don't smoke cigs and think they're absolutely disgusting, but forcing private companies to do this crap is complete BS.

 

[Atreus21]

Seriously, why allow the brand on the package at all? Why doesn't the government just nationalize it and get it over with?

They can advertise it as "FOR GOD'S SAKE DON'T BUY THIS CRAP!"

Bunch of freaking retards.

 

[Atreus21]

Really? Why do we need to force these things via government?

Because they know what's good for us more than we do. What's your rebuttal?

 

[PeshakJang]

 

[alkemyst]

It's pretty sad to think about the wasted resources spent on crap like this. I don't smoke cigs and think they're absolutely disgusting, but forcing private companies to do this crap is complete BS.

It's part of the deal of them not disclosing this upfront and many did get burned by not knowing.

I am sure they are all for it as without it people could much more easily claim they had no clue.

 

[Londo_Jowo]

Canada has been doing this for 15 year or more and it didn't make a big difference. People just buy cases for their cigarettes.

 

[Fenixgoon]

i think it's absolutely retarded

if you don't know that smoking is harmful, wtf have you been doing for the past 18 years?

finally, see "thank you for smoking." great movie

 

[Doc Savage Fan]

Canada has been doing this for 15 year or more and it didn't make a big difference. People just buy cases for their cigarettes.

I'm sure that somebody, somewhere in Canada, 'feels' like they've made a truly meaningful contribution to the world.

 

[ElFenix]

i think it's absolutely retarded

if you don't know that smoking is harmful, wtf have you been doing for the past 200 years?

finally, see "thank you for smoking." great movie

ftfy

cigarettes were referred to as coffin nails in the 1800s.

 

[surfsatwerk]

I'll make sure to buy the cigarettes that harm children, so I don't get lung cancer.

 

[Fenixgoon]

ftfy

cigarettes were referred to as coffin nails in the 1800s.

i used 18 since that's the earliest age you can (legally) smoke cigarettes.

 

[Double Trouble]

... cigarettes are addictive, can kill you, and second-hand smoke can harm children!

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/10/cigarette.warnings/index.html?hpt=Sbin

Really? Why do we need to force these things via government?

The bottom line is that everyone knows cigarettes are bad for you and others. People either don't care and live with the consequences or they don't smoke in the first place.

Forcing tobacco companies to put these images on every pack is, in addition to a measure I'm philosophically opposed to, a lot of work and effort for which there will be no reduction in the number of smokers.

Agreed 100%, I'm against government mandating specific advertising etc, and it makes no sense anyhow.....

 

[hal2kilo]

ftfy

cigarettes were referred to as coffin nails in the 1800s.

That's what my granddad used to say as he smoked his pipe or cigar. Still, he lived to be 93.

Compared to what those drug pushers spend on marketing, having to put those messages on the packs is nothing.

If $8 to $10 a pack for smoking something that doesn't get you flying isn't a deterent, those messages aren't going to slow them down.

I think the social stigma of being a virtual periah these days (having to smoke outside in an assigned area) has had more to with people quitting than anything else anyway.

 

[ShawnD1]

I support this initiative because I was completely unaware that smoking caused cancer. Was this just discovered? Why was I not informed?

 

[cubby1223]

Hating cigarettes is a multi-billion dollar industry.

Have any idea how much drug companies rake in for profits on products to help quit smoking? Also add in all the government grants funding a lot of this.

There is no incentive for the anti-smoking lobby to ever quit their fight. They pull in so much money from it. They will always further and further and further despite how stupid all of us think it is.

 

[cubby1223]

The following year San Francisco declares all happy meals be sold in bags depicting an 800-lb naked fat man.

 

[trenchfoot]

Hmmmm.....swarm and smother.....nice.

 

[JSt0rm]

I don't smoke cigs and think they're absolutely disgusting, but forcing private companies to do this crap is complete BS.

allowing them to still sell their product is whats sad.

 

[zsdersw]

allowing them to still sell their product is whats sad.

Yes, that really works. After all, speak-easys and other underground operations didn't exist during prohibition.. oh wait, nevermind, they did.

 

[PottedMeat]

hahahah

i'm willing to be they're going to change this pic:
http://www.fda.gov/TobaccoProducts/Labeling/CigaretteProductWarningLabels/ucm231347.htm

some dipshit is actually going to take this picture as a suggestion

 

[rudder]

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Really? Why do we need to force these things via government?

Hell yeh we do. If my wealth is being distributed to the less fortunate, and those less fortunate like to smoke while enjoying subsidized healthcare.... the government should do everything in its power to cease cigarette sales in this country to people on obamacare.

With my current health insurance, if I smoke, I pay extra every month.

 

[bamacre]

lmao

 

[Linflas]

Hell yeh we do. If my wealth is being distributed to the less fortunate, and those less fortunate like to smoke while enjoying subsidized healthcare.... the government should do everything in its power to cease cigarette sales in this country to people on obamacare.

With my current health insurance, if I smoke, I pay extra every month.

How about we just cease redistributing your wealth? Insurance companies should be able to base the rates charged based on whether the insured is a smoker or lives with a smoker.