Would guresome pictures on cigarette packets encourage/cause you to give up your 'disgusting habit'?
Would a gruesome picture of a cancer-ravaged mouth with rotting teeth make you think twice about buying a pack of cigarettes?
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...The rules will require tobacco companies to cover at least half of the front and back of packages with graphic -- and possibly gruesome -- images illustrating the dangers of smoking.
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If U.S. regulations are modeled after those already in place in Canada and other countries, the warnings will be shocking: blackened lungs, gangrenous feet, bleeding brains and people breathing through tracheotomies.
Get Ready for Gruesome Cigarette Warnings
This is referring to US law, by the way.
Reply to this I personally think this is over the top. I already know that smoking is bad for me and the current warnings on cigarette packets were enough to cause me to cut down to 2 per day.
They have those guresome photos on cigarette packets in Thailand. I interpret it as a ridiculous comparison of me with people who have diseased rotting teeth and people breathing smoke all over a baby they are holding. The adds lose their meaning, since I can not relate at all to the people in the photos.
Mel
Reply to this Do the messages that are currently on cigarette packets scare you Darya? They scare me a little.
Reply to this A little bit. They just remind me about the things I don't remember usually.
Reply to this I'm not a smoker, so I can't answer the question. But... in my homestate of Montana, there is a extrememly gruesome anti-Meth campaign including commercials, billboards, etc. all over the state. It alone has been receiving a lot of the reason that Meth isn't a larger problem in the state. Granted, Meth use has a long way to go, but it has gotten national awards and I believe there is a movie/documentary in the works.
Little off topic, but thought you may be interested. Feel free to google 'Montana Meth Project' for more info and for all of their commercials... they are quite striking!
Reply to this it doesnt make any difference any which ways..... ive stopped looking at packets !
Reply to this When is this new law comming out in the US anyway?
If anyone has any photos of these new gruesome cigarette packets, would you post them here.
Reply to this It wouldn't make me stop but I would probably invest in a cigarette case. :-)
Reply to this Maybe there will next be gruesome photos on junk food packets, on butter packets, on wine bottles and just about anything else that has negative health possibilities.
Reply to this Yes we have these gruesome images on some cigarette packs in the UK, too. Written warnings are on all packets, however. And they do have an impact, I would say, on those that already have the doubts in their mind about smoking.
Junk food and alcohol have their positives when eaten/drank in moderation and with a balanced diet; I don't think it would be necessary to have similar gruesome photos, it's just education that helps people understand that excess will have a bad impact on your health. One cigarette has a negative (awful) effect on your health (and others, if you smoke in public), just because someone may smoke a small amount does not mean they will escape the images seen on the packets. Although I accept it is a worse case scenario. These images are very necessary and a good indication of what is happening in the bodies of smokers. And I don't say this as a person who has never smoked!
Reply to this I don't think so... In Thailand they have it all over but I would not think that it would stop people smoke... I find it quiet disgusting...
Reply to this If it helps stops some people then it was well worth it. There is not one method to get people to quit but add all these small things together, it all helps.
We've had the images here in Australia for a while now.
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