Reason TV: The FDA's New and Improved Cigarette Warning Labels
The US Food and Drug Administration recently unveiled nine graphic warning labels that will appear on US cigarette packs in 2012. Some of the more gruesome labels include images of diseased lungs and tracheotomy holes. According to the FDA, these labels are "the most significant advancement in communicating the dangers of smoking and the first change in cigarette warnings in more than 25 years."
Will the graphic labels reduce smoking? Do Americans really need to be reminded that smoking isn't good for them?
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We might have to start putting warning labels on blogs!
Blogs are a food right? I'm sure it's in the commerce clause.
Give us the power, Harry. We seek the Precious.
I can't be jogging and flipping tapes and drink my sip.
Meets my definition of Obscenity. Censor that shit.
Will they put warning labels on voting booths?
Whoa - wait a sec - smoking is unhealthy?
We already have this garbage in NYC. Whether it's a bodega or a bulletproof gas station booth, they have these posters up with pictures of blackened lungs, rotten teeth, amputees - all sorts of shit. And you know what, people still pay $12 and change for a pack of smokes. What a waste.
Not to mention the television ads
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Those signs are illegal; a judge said so and shopkeepers are free to take them down. Of course, none do because of the "it would be a shame if something happened" nature of our city government.
First of all there are no amputees, there are only three images: a rotten tooth, a rotten lung and a brain scan of a stroke.
Also, several peer-reviewed scientific studies have shown that smoker don't fully understand the health risks (i.e. they think smoking fewer cigarettes will help, don't understand heart disease or stroke risks, etc.
For example, see: Cummings KM. "Tobacco Risk Perceptions and Behavior: Implications for Tobacco Control." Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 6(S3): S285?S288, 2004
Hammond D, Fong G, et al. "Effectiveness of cigarette warning labels in informing smokers about the risks of smoking: findings from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Four Country Survey" Tob Control 2006;15:iii19-iii25.
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I LIKE THE PART IN VIDEO WHEN SINEAD CRIES. THAT'S HERE REMEMBERING THE PUNISHING RAPE STEVE SMITH GAVE HER!
I would invest in any company that makes cigarette cases.
I was thinking the same thing.
Great investment idea..it will catch on!
They should put Obama's picture since he used to smoke.
Still does on occasion
Urge to smoke . . . rising.
No shit! All this crap about cigarette labels equals TONS of free advertising and I've been fiending for a smoke for weeks now! Plus, I can't wait to see an increase in risky behavior among da yoots when they discover their apparent invincibility when they try smoking and don't keel over instantly.
This is called (completely predictable) unintended consequenses.
Me too....goddamn, I want a cig right now
Time for some Atomic Fireballs.
Did anyone post this one yet?
NOTHING ELSE HAPPENED THE BALKOBOTS
Oops, forgot the punchline.
Talk about efficient!
Wait, what? Summary execution is now the legal penalty for being armed in custody of the police?
Especially if you smoke.
No, no, summary execution is only appropriate if the citizen is (a) handcuffed and (b) not actually armed at all.
So long a nothing else happens, of course.
But what we really want to know, did they shoot his dog?
My job has a zero tolerance smoking policy. Someone tested positive for nicotine recently and was fired.
But nothing else happened, right?
The people at your job sound like fun.
Testing for nicotine has got to be one of the four horsemen or something...
WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT UNEMPLOYMENT! Now will the government PLEASE destroy the tobacco industry and the thousands it employs. Thx.
I really want a high res picture of that Bush/Obama warning label. Please provide.
Smoking is stupid
Wasn't Right to Life enjoined from advertising on busses with pictures of victims of late term abortions? Wern't such pictures deemed "offensive"?
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OK now I'll just buy a cig box holder to cover up that nasty shit. This is way overboard.
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The thing about tobacco is that the all the anti smoking adds do is say wait until your old enough to smoke THEN it will be okay and cool. Anyone else notice how the carton pictures only feature white trash and blacks?
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Tracheotomy holes? Perfect for Steve Smith's Cincinnati Bow Tie obsession.
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