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.
Spare us the picture of the one for erectile dysfunction.
Ok, if the government is going to put these kinds of pictures on cigarette packs so we all have to see them, then I want to see the pictures of a dead osama bin laden!
I mean, if obama and his admin thinks it’s ok to show us dead bodies, then I want to see the dead body of bin laden.
I’m all for doing this if similar warnings are posted on other unhealthy items.
A Big Mac should come with a photo of a morbidly obese man having a heart attack.
A government check should have a picture of a welfare queen.
DU ought to come with a meter showing how many IQ points you lose for each hour surfing there.
I have an answer to this si$t. I wanted to make a fortune on this, but wanted to get this out for some enterprising freeper.
Simply make a very cheap condom (like a thin film) that can easily be placed over the pack. Disposable. Could have waterfalls, beauties, words like F You O, anything that makes the image you like.
Granted, smoking isn’t good, wish I could quit, but this morbid idea from the FDA will send some to the lawyers to sue. For hurting my kid. Just thing of the pack with FDA sick pic laying on a picnic table and some kid sees it. Or in a bar where you can smoke. Law suits galore.
My idea could be made in Texas (love that state) or China or anywhere that it is cheap. Less than a penny a pack. Ladies with purses will probably use cig cases, but guys want something easy, quick and no hassle to slide on. 100 for 50 cents. The tobacco co. probably already thought of this. Do you get my drift?
Dang... How lucky am I that they put these warnings on the packages! Golly... I started smoking in the first place because I thought cigarettes were ~good~ for me. Imagine my surprise when I find out that they’re not!
Golly Gee Willikers!! I’m shocked! Shocked I say!
Piffle. What a cop-out.
If cigarettes are so bad, then BAN THEM. BAN TOBACCO. Otherwise, shut the F#@% up. Don’t just pretend to give s#!7. But of course, governments won’t do that. Why? Because government makes upwards of ten to twenty times the profit per pack that the cigarette companies do. Philip Morris makes between 15 and 25 cents a pack. The state of WA makes about four dollars a pack.
Who is “big tobacco” after all? Is it Philip Morris? Or is it the state?
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
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 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.
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
LOL!