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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Canada has had these images on cigarette packs for years. As a former lifelong smoker, at the time I hated seeing them every time I bought a pack. In fact there was even a cottage industry in Canada selling cute little covers for the packs to block out the images.Years later, after a two year battle to free myself from nicotine, I realize that those black lung and rotten mouth images did play a small role in getting me to quit in that they gave me a visual reminder that I was essentially paying some corporation 9 dollars a day to send me down the road to COPD or cancer. Tobacco addiction is the most widespread, intense and pathetic addictions out there and you can’t just let the market rule and say it’s up to the individual. They, like all addicts, need the medical and scientific community, education, government and charities involved. Every little bit helps.
Leni
Let me guess, you are either liberal, gay, or under the age of 35? Can you rattle of a few more for me, like gun laws prevent gun crime, welfare payments create relief from poverty, higher taxes bring in more revenue to government, recycling paper results in more trees? I know there are more and I'm sure you've got them all memorized.
>> “Counting down the days until kids think this is cool- morbid and goth- and they start collecting them.” <<
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Considering the low level of credibility our government has achieved, it has to happen.
>> “I don’t suppose we’ll ever see such warnings on condom packages....” <<
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Or loves of wheat bread, packages of pasta, candy bars, cubes of margarine, artificially sweetened soda, Canola fried frenchfries, sugar frosted flakes...
Exactly. If It’s so horrible and kills everyone and those around them, just ban it.
The STATE should give up the billions in tax revenue and MSA payments.
Academic grant junkies and executives of anti smoking groups who make six figure salaries will have to find a different line of work. A real job like everyone else.
Or attacking BIG SNACK FOOD.
>> “So can we have labels of clogged arteries on fast food wrappers?” <<
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A Big Mack is healthier than a bowl of cornflakes, or pasta.
I know, I am very anticarbs. One only needs to look at the rise in all forms of disease with the carb and whole grain craze.
wonder if they’ll put large photos on the sides of abortion clinics of babies who have been murdered? Isn’t abortion HARMFUL to babies????!!!
>> “The data are solid.” <<
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The emperor’s clothes are lovely.
The second hand smoke “study” is a masterpiece in psuedoscience.
The Left has a great idea here: showing the results (supposed) from cigarettes.
What’s good for the goose is good for the gander; lets also show ABORTED BABIES!
Come on Libs, you don’t have any problems with us showing the carnage from a partial birth abortion do you? Lets really show people what death looks like. And here’s a novel thought; at least smokers only harm themselves...abortion kills the baby and damges the mother’s mental state.
Edgar Friendly...
[A]ccording to Cocteau’s plan, I’m the enemy, ‘cause I like to think, I like to read. I’m into freedom of speech, and freedom of choice. I’m the kinda guy that likes to sit in a greasy spoon and wonder, “Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of barbecue ribs with the side-order of gravy fries?” I want high cholesterol! I wanna eat bacon, and butter, and buckets of cheese, okay?! I wanna smoke a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinnati in the non-smoking section! I wanna run naked through the street, with green Jell-O all over my body, reading Playboy magazine. Why? Because I suddenly may feel the need to, okay, pal?
If you need big government and liberal progressive social engineers to coerce you to change your behavior, than you have issues.
In fairness to you, you’re a Canuck. This is America.
>> “A Big Mac should come with a photo of a morbidly obese man having a heart attack.” <<
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That would be more appropriate for a bowl of pasta.
The only part of the Big Mack that isn’t healthy is the bun.
>>> Let me guess, you are either liberal, gay, or under the age of 35? Can you rattle of a few more for me, like gun laws prevent gun crime, welfare payments create relief from poverty, higher taxes bring in more revenue to government, recycling paper results in more trees?
So in your “over 35 year old” world, pregnancy or stds are more likely if the sperm IS trapped in a plastic wrapper, then if it isn’t.
I’d hate to be you. Senility is so sad. And irreversible.
They could put a skull and crossbones on them and call them “Tumors” and smokers would still be lined up around the block for them-Dennis Leary
I was being facetious.
>> “So in your “over 35 year old” world, pregnancy or stds are more likely if the sperm IS trapped in a plastic wrapper, then if it isn’t.” <<
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One of my cousins conceived all three of her sons during sex with a condom, and never succeeded at doing so without one.
Condoms do nothing but keep cucumbers from getting sunburn in sex ed class.
>> “I was being facetious.” <<
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The main topic of the thread has you beat!
Pregnancy and STDs are more likely when frequent sex is engaged in due to a false sense of security when in fact condoms have a typical 10% failure rate. Along with those come more abortions, more emotional damage and significantly higher rates of breast cancer from those abortions. But you go ahead and cling to that security blanket the NEA, Planned Parenthood and the homo lobby gave you in middle school.
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