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Everyone looking forward to the new anti-smoking pictures being selected later today?
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I mean if we government didnt put warnings and shocking pictures over the packets, people might begin to think ciggrettes are healthy :rolleyes:
No, that would well put me off my pint
Hahah yeah
But after working in a bar you see what the beer does to your shoes - it literally rots them away. Wonder what it does to your insides :nervous:
Fuck sake, that first one would almost make me wanna quit.
Alllllllllllmost! wanna quit.
It looks quite tasty to me. Looks like some sort of BBQd meat.
Throat cancer.
Slip jacket onto packet of fags= problem solved.
A fortune to be made there I reckon.
Dont go knicking my idea. Its pateted now!
Always knew you were a capitalist at heart
I don't see how these are going to help.
In any case, there are far fewer people smoking nowadays than back in the 1960s, back in the days when cigarettes were good for you, and Muffin The Mule was a cartoon and not a criminal offence.
You already see that in front of you in the queue every time you walk into one.
I think you offer a very valid point. I would say it is very probable that all perceived good things have a down side, and so in the interest of fairness and full disclosure, wouldn't that involve presenting the negative side.
What's good for the goose is good for the gander,and all that.
To add to your example, how about the military recruiting adverts that sell the positive having to include images of the negatives in order to give a fuller picture of what you may be letting yourself in for if you decide to indulge in such activities ?
e.g. http://www.antiwar.com/photos/perm/The+Face+of+War.jpg
http://dahrjamailiraq.com/gallery/view_photo.php?set_albumName=album32&id=24_G
Either the Gov't thinks people are too stupid to be able to read the warnings on packets and thus believes that without such totally in-your-face warnings that people might think smoking is really, really good for you. Which I doubt. Because anyone that stupid doesn't deserve to live.
Or, they've got spare cash knocking around that they could use to save an A&E department somewhere or buy some books for schools. But no, they've spent it, as usual, on something no-body wants, and no-body needs. The money probably came from tabacco taxes in the first place.
These constant erosions of smokers' rights, coupled with a very clever PR campaign which has managed to persuade even intelligent articulate people that smokers are evil, naughty, incapable of raising children, fund terrorism and are generally bad eggs is quite frankly disgusting. Either ban smoking or leave us the fuck alone because until they ban smoking outright, there can be no excuse for making us feel like social pariahs.
It does seem fair though if they're doing it to fags.
I agree. If you're fine with it happening on fags then you've got no cause for complaint when chocolate bars start appearing with pictures of clogged arteries on them.
Nice.
Surely they should just have the written warning and that's it. Surely people who smoke already know the risks?
These images are just the latest part of plans to increasingly ostracise smokers and harass those who enjoy smoking. The ban was one attempt to force smokers into conforming, this is yet another. Still, yet another reason for smokers to do everything possible to avoid buying cigarettes in a country that relies on them for tax revenue, whilst treating them like shit (and having some of the highest taxes in the world on tobacco).
Someone will make a lot of money making cheap cigarette cases and distributing them to newsagents/supermarkets/etc.
Well you'd think that but apparently they don't. Thus we need pictures of diseased lungs on fag packets.
I personally think they should paint giant warnings on the side of cars saying how much they damage the environment (to which smoking's impact on the world pales in comparison).
All I'm asking is a little fairness and balance. Sadly, however, when it comes to smoking/smokers, fairness and balance are two things rarely present at the debate.
Actually the first warnings that appeared were because of an act of Congress, not the Tabacco companies wanting to cover their arses.
The irony is that were everyone in this country to give up/buy nothing but pirated fags, £11bn would disappear from the economy and trouble would then ensue.