Posted on 06/21/2011 7:19:13 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084
Cigarette makers must add large, graphic warning labels depicting diseased lungs, a man exhaling smoke through a hole in his neck and other images to packaging and advertising in the U.S. by October 2012, government officials said Tuesday.
The nine graphic images—accompanying warning labels with messages such as "Smoking can kill you" and "Cigarettes cause cancer"—are the biggest change to warning labels in more than 25 years. Such warnings were required by a 2009 law that gave the Food and Drug Administration the authority to regulate tobacco products.
The supersize labels are the highest-profile part of an intensified war on tobacco by the federal government, which ranks it as the leading cause of preventable and premature death in the U.S., linked to an estimated 443,000 deaths a year. The adult smoking rate of 20.6% in 2009 has remained largely unchanged since 2004, and about 20% of high school students also smoke.
The new color labels must occupy the top half of the front and back of a cigarette pack, and 20% of an ad's space. Other images include a baby near a cloud of smoke, a dead body, and a man wearing a black t-shirt with "I Quit" written across the chest. All labels include the number of a national quit line. Current warning labels, which were put on cigarette packs in the 1980s, are contained in a small box with black and white text warning about the dangers of smoking.
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Does this mean Planned Parenthood centers will have to have a pile of dismembered fetuses at the door?
Does this mean Planned Parenthood centers will have to have a pile of dismembered fetuses at the door?
I don’t object to ghoulish warnings. A smoker may or may not get a horrible disease. They are more likely but it’s not definite.
On the other hand, abortion will ALWAYS result in unborn human beings turned into medical waste.
Pictures of that are verboten at abortion clinics.
So can we have labels of clogged arteries on fast food wrappers? How about a blind amputee diabetic on products containing sugar? Impacted bowels on bottles of narcotic pain pills?
If you want to keep people from smoking, put the follow peoples’ photos on cigarette packs:
Michele Obama in one of her bad mood pics
Nancy Pelosi
Helen Thomas
Rosie O’Donnell as the terrorist
Barbra Streisand without makeup (Mercy, Lord, Mercy)
Within a week you will have no smoking in the U.S. but a lot of barfing to clean up.
Tonight they showed some of these graphics on the Fox Report and when they showed the dead guy my daughter and I laughed out loud, because this photo of a guy with an autopsy incision is supposed to be so horribly shocking, but autopsies happen to EVERYBODY who dies of an unknown cause. If you’re a health food nut and marathoner and you die of an aneurysm during a 10K run, you get an autopsy. You smoke two packs a day for 60 years and die of emphysema in a nursing home, you don’t.
DUH!
Same thing with the ugly yellow teeth. Do they think smokers don’t know about ugly yellow teeth? They’ve never met another smoker with bad teeth? Really?
Hey, let’s pretend smokers, who are FREAKIN’ ADDICTS are going to be dissuaded by nasty pictures.
Every dime spent on this and other government anti-smoking efforts is a waste of money.
You make an excellent point. the next time somepro-abort brings up raphic photos, I’ll ask if they oppose the new cig warning labels.
So do your part. Don’t waste your time talking to me. Do something effective.
Film a public service announcement saying “Hi, my name is Drango. If you want to be cool like me, smoke cigarettes.”
I guarantee no kid will ever smoke again.
It may be tough for you to pick up the cigarette and puff on it. You may not like the taste or the smell. But it’s for the children. Do it for them.
Several years ago there were some off-brands for sale that featured pictures of ghouls, body parts and so forth. They carried names such as Death Sticks, Kill Yourself and so forth. They sold well to kids who thought they were “cool”.
Candy cigarette packs will gladly ape this.
In the Star Wars universe there’s a very popular drug called death sticks; they’re mentioned briefly in Attack of the Clones. “Death sticks” is not a slang term like it os in the real world, it’s the actual name of the drug and billions use it anyway.
True, it’s science fiction, but it reflects reality...how many people stick something they call a “coffin nail” in their mouth and suck on it like a Hoover?
In the Star Wars universe there’s a very popular drug called death sticks; they’re mentioned briefly in Attack of the Clones and are elaborated on in various novels and comics. One bit they did is a public service announcement where the guy who tries to sell Kenobi some death sticks in the nightclub is a spokesman for a major anti-drug campaign. “Death sticks” is not a slang term like it is in the real world, it’s the actual name of the drug and billions use it anyway.
True, it’s science fiction, but as you pointed out, it reflects reality...how many people stick something they call a “coffin nail” in their mouth and suck on it like a Hoover?
I think Dennis Leary already covered this several years ago.
One wonders what new taxes are in store once they realize the lost revenues from scaring smokers into quitting. It’s all about the revenue.
There’s napalm all over the target. Nicely done.
Whatever fits best, I think one of the images needs to be dead Elvis on the toilet.
That will freak out anyone right there on several different levels.
Spare us the picture of the one for erectile dysfunction.
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