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‘Do as You’re Told’: Here‘s How Australian Tobacco Companies Are Fighting the ’Nanny State’

Recently The Blaze reported on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration releasing nine new and grotesque warning labels for cigarette packs. The labels feature graphic images, including corpses, rotting teeth and gums, and a man with a tracheotomy smoking, along with the phrases “Smoking can kill you” and “Cigarettes cause cancer.”

But while proponents of the anti-smoking campaign see this as a victory in the public health arena, others fear it is a major step towards an all-intrusive Nanny State. It makes one wonder if they will start displaying photos of a cirrhosised liver on liquor bottles, or a list of all diabetes-related ailments on a box of Twinkies.

Do as Youre Told: Heres How Australian Tobacco Companies Are Fighting the Nanny State

And people in Australia who are currently faced with the same cigarette packaging and smoking restrictions — and who aren’t pleased with the “over the top” degree of state intervention — seem to feel the same way. To combat the creeping effects of government intrusion, Australia’s tobacco industry has launched a“No Nanny State” ad campaign, featuring a dour-faced Nanny instructing you to “do as you’re told.”  She also doesn’t seem to mind collecting her tax-dollars from each sinful pack of cigarettes:

(H/T: NewsOnNBC)

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  • ghostsouls
    Posted on June 25, 2011 at 5:34pm

    The Federal Government cannot add. (timothy Geithner, either) If cigarettes ceased being made today, all of them, and there were no more cigarettes on the planet. What or should I dare say WHO is going to make up for the financial loss? The unemployed due to the loss of the industry…the city’s and states would lose money those people who are now unemployed contributed to the economy, WHO would replace the federal taxes that cigarettes generate for the Federal Government coffers? We Would, on groceries, milk, bread, cheese, alcohol, rent, lights, water , gas, gasoline, you name it, it will sky rocket. The government got used to living with those tax dollars, they are not gonna go quietly into the night without that money.

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    • freedomfighter1776
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 7:46pm

      beg to differ my friend. if we the people draw a line in the sand. do you really think they would not listen. there are 356 milion americans today. how little are they who are in power. we out number them 350 to 1. they can keep there army or what ever they say they have. but even throwing rocks we could destroy them. just imagine 1 million people all throwing a rock at the same time. oh boy. but there are more people then that and we also dont just have rocks.

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    • Wolf
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 11:02pm

      There are 350+ million SHEEP in America who have no more interest in government outside what is on the idiot box and in their refrigerator. The ‘08 election and current events should be enough evidence as to how they ’think’.

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  • 50BMG
    Posted on June 25, 2011 at 5:08pm

    How about we require images of people in chains or being executed in mass graves along with every new communication from our government? If they’re so determined to warn us of the dangers of everything we do, what could possibly be more dangerous than an all-intrusive, dictatorial government?

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  • endgamer
    Posted on June 25, 2011 at 4:55pm

    The government wants to keep marijuana right where it is because legalizing it would remove tons of profit for them. The facts with marijuana.. No packaging costs, no distribution costs, no excise taxes or regulations, Eager to work staff that works on profit, not salaried. aka, dealers. All of that equals huge profit for the state run marijuana industry.. Second income stream the fees and fines levied on those that get caught. Third, keeps the police busy, The DEA busy, the courts busy, keeps the jails filled thus a good reason to tax even more. If it’s legalized a huge can of worms opens up and the income stream for the government controlled marijuana trade changes drastically. Do you know who controls the heroin trade? Take a huge guess and it’s all a sham.

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  • hcartexas
    Posted on June 25, 2011 at 4:52pm

    Civil war! Revolution! We must rid america of the people that want to control us….

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    • bigjack940
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 2:09pm

      reply to HCARTTEXAS, right on brother. You hit the proverbial nail right on the head. Now, if we can get enough people who still think for themselve, to rise up , we can take back our country from these liberal bastards. Nows, the time, while we still can.

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  • olddog
    Posted on June 25, 2011 at 4:09pm

    Well since NY just voted in gay marriage why doesn’t the fda show us what happens to AIDS victims? fda another corrupt government agency….

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  • Redone
    Posted on June 25, 2011 at 3:50pm

    Sorry my Aussie brothers and sisters, but you already let them take your guns, so you will have to be good little boys and girls and bend over for your daily spanking.

    Enjoy

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  • The Gooch
    Posted on June 25, 2011 at 3:39pm

    Did that reporter/commentator seem a bit biased to anyone else? I think he knew “Nanny” was watching….
    Stupid, stupid, stupid. You wanna make people own their behavior on this? Make the folks who receive incomed-based entitlements or health coverage related to disability claims own their vices with limited coverage… like those of us who must pay our way AND theirs. And yet every time such a move is made, misguided (and sometimes nefarious) advocates and special interests step on such measures.
    This just affirms you can have too much governance. Australia is an odd bird… a ruff and tumble history, but in the end defined by being cowed and subjugated. This produces some very nasty and intolerant characters… kinda like the Scotland of the South Pacific.

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  • SheriS
    Posted on June 25, 2011 at 3:29pm

    Why don’t the ******** do after their own Prez! I’m told by the news media he is still smoking! Not sure where he does it as it is illegal to do in the White House! Maybe he sneaks down to the “bunker” so no one will see him take that precious puff!

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    • DAGNY
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 4:01am

      The President has every right to smoke. It is still legal, right. Frankly I think it’s ridiculous that the whole country is monitoring his smoking habits. Seems about 10 years ago people decided they had every right to walk right up to a stranger and reprimand them for smoking or whatever. We have a country of bossy, intrusive snobs. Manners anyone?

      Back to BO, he has every right to smoke and should not be made to feel guilty or ashamed over it. On the other hand, it’s his very own progressive beliefs that brought our country to this point in the first place.

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  • krenshau
    Posted on June 25, 2011 at 3:01pm

    So, Australia is mad about cigarettes and liquor, but they weren’t mad when they were told to turn in all of their guns? Maybe, if they hadn’t turned in their guns they would not have this problem.

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    • Andrew from Down Under
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 8:18pm

      What a moronic comment- all the guns in America, and did you stop Obamacare? And get your facts straight, we only handed in automatic and certain semi- automatic rifles. You can still get guns as long as you’re licensed. Leftists are the same here and in the US- when they get into power, they’ll ram through all their nasty programs! We’re taking a stand, join us!

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  • boca_chica
    Posted on June 25, 2011 at 2:53pm

    Warning to U.S. citizens-socialism is bad for your health-put that in your pipe and smoke it!!

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  • NOBALONEY
    Posted on June 25, 2011 at 2:23pm

    On one hand they put a 62 cents tax on a pack to pay for SCHIP, and now there pushing real hard to have you stop smoking. Government rights and taxes, they giveth and taketh away as they see fit. Progressives are a cancer to our Constitutional rights!

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  • Sam Brown
    Posted on June 25, 2011 at 2:14pm

    When you go to die of lung cancer your lungs will fill with fluids and they will have to stick a needle through your back to drain the fluids. Your loved one will be there to hold you up while this is happening and feel the pain you go through. You loved one will listen to your every last gasp for air as you die.

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  • Sam Brown
    Posted on June 25, 2011 at 2:09pm

    My wife of 40 years died from lung cancer. She smoked since she was a teen. I doubt anyone understands what it is like to watch your LIFE die before you. Your feedom to smoke is your right but the kind of world you leave your family is nothing but pain. I guess it’s your right to inflict pain on your family.

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    • korbin
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 4:32pm

      I lost two Brothers, both young 26, the other 40,, I lost my dad, he was 60, both my grandparents, on both sides of family, so many cousins I cant keep up same with aunts and uncles and many friends all before I was 30. They all croked from different things. My observations is nobody gets it. WE YOU and everyone else is going to die. If no one died Think about it? population hmmmm. I pray your wife is in heaven, I also pray for you and your grief, I don’t see your point. lastly One of me old grannies died at the ripe old age of 99 never smoked a day in her life, guess what? lung cancer. Life is precious and we should all do what we can to preserve it but God sent us here alone and alone we will be when he takes us back. Quit blaming the world for our strifes it aint the cigarettes. this is all about control thats it control, we are all to lazy to preserve our freedom.

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    • Sam Brown
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 5:43pm

      @korbin

      I blame no one, just telling it like it is. People make choices that kill themselves all the time.

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    • bigjack940
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 2:00pm

      @SAM BROWN, FRirst let me say that I’m sorry for your loss. Beyond that, My dad smoked all his life from the age of 12 on, and he died at 89 years of age. My mother on the other hand, never tasted liquor in her life, never smoked a cigarette, and she passed at 71, and it was cancer. And it wasn’t from second hand smoke either , since my dad never smoked around her, ever, and went outside to smoke because she didn’t want it in the house. Me, on the other hand , have smoked since I was 9 years old, and I’m now 73, and ,though I have some medical problems, they can’t attribute any of them to tobacco use. So, it depends on the individual, and there surroundings.

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  • welovetheUSA
    Posted on June 25, 2011 at 1:59pm

    Watch…………http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QDv4sYwjO0

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  • cookcountypatriot
    Posted on June 25, 2011 at 1:59pm

    you want to smoke …smoke…who cares…get me a pack while your at it…marlboro lights 100,s…the progressives tax the crap out of them..

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  • vennoye
    Posted on June 25, 2011 at 1:58pm

    Find it strange that there is such out cry against smoking..which creats bad health for one person (if they don’t smoke around their family-2nd hand smoke) and so little said about drinking which has been proven to destroy whole families. Doesn’t seem to make sense to make such a big deal about one and not the other………..guess Liquor lobby is more generous to our politicians…..or maybe they all are drinkers and don’t want to make it look bad for themselves.

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  • pothos42
    Posted on June 25, 2011 at 1:56pm

    Australia is under the exact same attack from the left that we are. Shop owners there who sell cigarettes already have to keep them out of view with no indication they even sell them. I’m not a fan of smoking at all, but it’s a LEGAL product here and in Australia. Ban it or leave it alone. The government needs to stop playing games.

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  • BallisticBob
    Posted on June 25, 2011 at 1:51pm

    “They want to stop people from smoking tobacco which of course is legal, yet they want people to smoke illegal drugs. So they’re not concerned about pot smoking causing cancer? ”

    Hell no they’re not concerned about smoking weed causing cancer.

    They’re only concerned about the tax revenue they can get from it, nothing more.

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  • Listenup
    Posted on June 25, 2011 at 1:46pm

    That’s okay — I think only “old white people” are effected by tobacco, certainly not blacks, hispanics, or others. Have you noticed how hardly anyone smokes openly in our country anymore but if you go just about anywhere outside the country, people smoke openly and leave their butts on the ground!! I think they are somehow exempt from the cancer causing problems of cigarettes and tobacco — and that apparently includes our President!!

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    • fatjack
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 2:15pm

      Yeah obama hit the poor and the seniors hard. I bought 5 packs of chewing tobacco yesterday….paid $34.70.

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    • DAGNY
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 3:55am

      Sorry, you lost me. I can’t tell what your point is.

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  • Pylorus
    Posted on June 25, 2011 at 1:44pm

    I don‘t smoke and don’t advocate it, but with that said, the government has always been the biggest oppressor of mankind! Rise up people and fight back! Your freedom, freewill and right to choice is at stack. While smoking is bad (my opinion only), it is an individual’s right to choose to do so, provided s/he is aware of the risks and the tax payer is not responsible for any subsequent health care costs associated to the effects of smoking.

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    • Favored93
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 10:01pm

      The last part of that statement is were the nanny gets the authority to do what nanny’s do. Grrrrrr!

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    • DAGNY
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 3:51am

      Finally, a non-smoker who isn’t compelled to preach on the smokers. Thank you for the respect.

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  • welovetheUSA
    Posted on June 25, 2011 at 1:42pm

    Ron Paul wants Marijuana legal which is 50 more times stronger than cigarettes…cigarettes are legal, since when does the government have a right to deface a private companies package? I donot care who smoke what, if you cannot go three days without a cigarette , drink or pill you have an addiction problem, period…your choice what you do with your body, not the governments.

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    • PrfctlyFrank
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 5:51pm

      For one thing WELOVE comparing Marijuana to cigarettes is an apples to oranges comparison… Where were you when the nutritional value labels on every packaged food you eat was, “mandated,” by the FDA?? Where were you when the Cal. government came after cigarette smokers in public buildings, then Restaurants, then any enclosed space, then public parks etc. etc. etc. Thats how this has been done for generations… The nanny state started in 1887 when the federal government assumed control of a private commercial enterprise, the railroads, and, with the Interstate Commerce act, we got the camels nose under the tent.. The progs, the people that worship dominion over other people, got hold in the first part of the 20th century and nobody was watching the store.. We have what we have.. If you think it’s not a nanny state right now, sorry, go back to sleep..

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on June 25, 2011 at 1:09pm

    .
    I say SpankdaNanny…..

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  • John 3:16
    Posted on June 25, 2011 at 1:02pm

    Get the socialist out of our lives. Just say no to the nanny.

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    • Partygirl
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 11:31pm

      They want you to quit smoking cigarettes but start smoking pot. That is so that you are in a drug induced haze so you won’t notice when they finally take away all our rights.

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  • beverlee
    Posted on June 25, 2011 at 1:02pm

    Ya gotta die of something…they would rather we die of stress and taxes.

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    • SlimnRanger
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 11:59pm

      @Hobbs57,it’s ok bud we all get upset with our government

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    • glashole
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 11:50pm

      Obama crap care says that if we tell you what care you get then we can tell you what to eat, smoke, drink, say, and by the way here is your welfare check. Our representatives need to be sent packing if they do what they please and fail to vote the way we ask them to. Invest in lead.

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  • Marci
    Posted on June 25, 2011 at 1:00pm

    Enough is enough. Are we going to stop this nonsense or what? We know what smoking does to you. Yet, moonbats are STILL pushing other drug uses to become legal which have the same or worse consequences all on the notion that they aren’t nearly as harmful as cigarettes. LIE. Talk to some guys who have had to have some of their manhood removed after prolonged marijuana use or the fact that smoking a joint is equivalent to smoking two (or more) cigarettes on your lungs. The bottom line is they don’t have control over big tobacco—-they however, get first shot at owning the marijuana industry.

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    • Baikonur
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 1:25pm

      Legalize It! :)

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    • lovenfl3
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 1:27pm

      You just have to love the liberal mindset. They want to stop people from smoking tobacco which of course is legal, yet they want people to smoke illegal drugs. So they’re not concerned about pot smoking causing cancer? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIOFzLIZjh4

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    • CatB
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 1:34pm

      I wish that U.S. Industies would do the same .. they just seem to take it .. FIGHT BACK before you are gone … food police ,,,, tobacco police … give me a D break!

      TEA!

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 1:56pm

      @CatB:

      Exactly, the governmnet is imposing its control tighter and tighter upon us all one peice at a time; just under Mr Obama, it is in the open now and no longer hidden in the shadows. Soon enough I would not be shocked if they made breathing or living a criminal offense.

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    • colonial10
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 2:01pm

      The add that should go out should say, “Liberalism idealism causes brain failure”

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    • colonial10
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 2:06pm

      There should be another commercial about taxes being collected by these government nannies. Warning, Taxes will line the pockets of all government officials. While you are out working hard they are hardly working. Then show these officials in their mansions, BMW’s, royal parties at the White House, etc…

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    • BIGJAYINPA
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 2:06pm

      I broke the code of “big Brother” and “Nanny” a long time ago. They want you to buy two packs of cigarettes a day so “they” can keep getting their taxes, but they don’t want you to smoke them. The power to tax is the power to control and once they have enough of us addicted to their cradle to grave socialism then they will have the power to control everything we do. We have the Government we asked for and that we deserve. Quitcherbi***ing.

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    • hauschild
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 2:08pm

      Nice to see some fair-n-balanced coverage Down Under; always appreciated.

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    • BSdetector
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 2:14pm

      The simple solution is:
      Outlaw Tobacco while legalizing Pot
      Of course we would also have to re-outlaw alcohol and legalize gasoline for human consumption. Then we can use all that alcohol in our cars too!

      I think I just hit the progressive logic nail on the head.

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    • what4
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 2:16pm

      Just like beloning to a Union…Do what your told and pay to be told what to do….Brilliant! Got’s to love sheeple!

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    • betterthantv
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 3:16pm

      Oh MARCI where to even start with your nonsense? If you google marijuana vs cigarette you will clearly see that marijuana is MUCH less harmful than smoking a cigarette. And nicotine itself is actually good for you! Just look at the label of any memory enhancement pills. They all have nicotine in them. It’s the fillers that kill you not the nicotine. Your whole post is just absurd. Try researching before you blab. It really makes you look ignorant!

      LEGALIZE IT NOW!!!

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    • UlyssesP
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 3:22pm

      “Talk to some guys who have had to have some of their manhood removed after prolonged marijuana use”
      Marci, if thats what your boyfriends keep telling you as an excuse to stop doing you and break up then so be it, but
      YOU NEED TO CITE REAL EXAMPLES OF SOMETHING SO DANGEROUS….IF TRUE.

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    • Dahart
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 3:27pm

      My dad had smoked unfiltered cigarettes all of his life he passed away at the age of 55 not because of smoking because he was alcoholic and drug addict….. You see he so drunk and high that he walked right into traffic and was struck by a car. Almost a week later because my patents were divorced I had to sign the papers to pull him off life support……..
      What learned was it was a choice he made and As hard as we tried we could not change it and no matter weather it be legal or illegal people are going to do what people are going to do regardless.

      With that said ….. it is not the governments place to forces it’s self into the middle of our lives they are starting to overstep their bounds….it is propaganda it’s finest….were will they or we draw line?

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    • aliengenius
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 3:30pm

      To fix the problem you first have to understand where the nanny arguments gather their power. The government spends 50 cents of every health care dollar and that is where they see the authority to tell you what you can eat, smoke etc. First you have to give up the govt goodies before you can expect to live how you please. For my conservative friends out there, you have to learn to allow others to be free to do as they wish so that your rights to do as you wish are preserved as well. As long as you are not taking from someone or hurting them you should be able to do as you wish. This means some people will smoke pot, others will visit prostitutes and some others will gamble at casinos. When you start infringing on the freedoms of others you can well expect that they will begin infringing on yours. I am willing to tolerate the activities of others so that I can preserve the things I wish to do. You can cite any bible verse or study you like but if you want the power to be free you have to allow freedom to others, even if you view it as destructive or immoral. Morality is not the domain of government. The govt is there to protect our rights handed down from the Creator.

      Give up your govt health and welfare in all its forms and the nanny state disappears. Give up your bans on private activities engaged in by adults and the nanny state disappears. If you insist on instilling your morals on the rest of the nation we will never be rid of an over reaching govt.

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    • TomFerrari
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 3:48pm

      I want to see photos of emaciated vegans on tofu and veggie-burgers!

      How about photos of landfills OVERFLOWING of spent, leaking batteries, plastered all over the windows of prius-es-es-es (or is it priusii?) lol

      Here in wacko california, we have ubiquitous “Prop 65” warnings on EVERYTHING !
      They are SO omni-present, they are COMPLETELY IGNORED by the people.

      On the PLUS side, this may create a renewed market for cigarette cases!
      Anyone wanna go in with me to start a company? We can retail cig cases, and mfgr deluxe cases!

      If you wanna smoke, you’re gonna smoke.
      Kids watch movies like SAW, SAW-II, SAW-III, SAW-IV, SAW-MDCCLXXVI, etc.
      These static photos won’t phase them.

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    • DeepSouthernMan
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 3:48pm

      I smoked cannabis over 30 years. My 3 children, and education, would seem to refute your nebulous claims.

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    • TomFerrari
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 3:50pm

      Nicely stated, ALIENGENIUS ! ! ! ! ! !

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    • Bum thrower
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 5:34pm

      If tobacco is sooooo bad, why not just ban it;

      That’d be exciting; the lefites and the tobbaco addicts rioting in the streets…….LOL

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    • Stopit
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 5:43pm

      @colonial10
      I thought the same thing today before coming to this site about warning requirements on political ads on what liberalism and socialism results in when implimented. They do it on drugs, tobacco etc…why not the side effects of political ideologies. If we are going to be “nanny statist” lets include everything.

      PS…CAT B…I really like your comments…and TEA

      Let FREEDOM RING!

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    • NOTYERHUCKLEBERRY
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 6:48pm

      What I think is extremely funny about all the doo-flap from the anti-smoking folks is that the government is speaking out of both sides of its mouth.
      There is no way the government is going to get rid of tobacco, they make too much money from it in taxes. All the while they some what ho hummingly try to fear monger folks into quitting. What a laugh!

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    • Psychosis
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 6:50pm

      just put a picture of pelosi on the packs ……………..that would stop more people from smoking

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    • NOKOOLAIDDRINKER
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 7:21pm

      Fight back Australia!!! Iit’s never too late!!! Take back your gun rights as well, never let it happen again. Small government — freedom of choice!!! Never give up!!!

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    • Favored93
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 9:51pm

      Drugs of all kinds pot included should be ran away from like it will kill you … cause it will! However the govt. should NEVER try to legislate morality. Smoking like drinking is your choice alone our govt. should stay the HELL out of our personal lives!
      Does any one know exactly how much a year in taxes from cigarets and alcohol sales our benevolent federal government receives? Same with our gas how much of the price of a gallon is taxes? Come on if they want our tax money then stop yelling at us like kids over smoking or polluting the air! I am soooo sick of the liberal Hippocratic lectures! (forgive spelling )

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    • TheCenturion
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 10:02pm

      I wish American companies would start fighting back. We have lost the media to the commies, U.S. co’s coukld help get it back.

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    • JfromColorado
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 10:22pm

      @ aliengenius
      You make several good points. However it should be noted that the government is in the business of legislating morality. And they should. No murder, no theft, etc…. The question is how much morality should they legislate? Most libertarians, and I would consider myself one as well, would say government involvement begins where one’s actions affect the lives of others. But that does raise an issue. How much of an effect is neccessary to justify government involvement? This is why we need debate on these issues. Because almost all actions affect someone else on some level or another, a debate could be had about justifiable government actions. All this being said, a state should be the government being discussed, not the federal, because then we could see which laws are the most successful. I’m not condemning your post as much as commenting on the principles behind the discussion.

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    • Wolf
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 10:53pm

      Since when is it the government’s job to tell any person what they can do with their body, or put in it? And when did it become your job?
      NEWSFLASH: It isn‘t any of yours or their damn business what people choose to do so long as it isn’t harming anyone else.

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    • Hobbs57
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 11:00pm

      WHen will these stupid people get it through their head that NOBODY live forever !! Well, their bodies won’t anyways. Who WANTS to live forever ?? If you did, none of this would matter and life as we know it here on earth wouldn’t resemble our current world in any way. Yet, these people refuse to accept this fact. It is all based in FEAR. Fear is the opposite of faith, they can not co-exist in the same space. Clearly, Fear tactics such as this reflect the extent the intellect, that is, those who partake from the tree of knowledge,have moved into power. One does not know if they are going to get hit by a bus, contract some disease, or countless other ways. No, instead, people wil believe the medical professional, take a million different medications that sustain their soulless body as “Alzheimer’s” sets in and they walk the earth for another 20 years destroying the lives of their loves ones, depleting the entire saving they worked so hard to save for so they could live forever, and running medicare into the bazillions for care. I can’t stand these people anymore.
      My sister brought hoe my niece from the dentitst, she is 4, which blows my mind she was have tooth work done on teeth that are about to be replaced, but whatever. Well, he dentist decided to also pull another of her teeth because it was loose ( she banged it off my other nieces head). So now she has NO front tooth for the next 2 years. I blew my TOP. I can;t stand these intellects poking and prodding ANY

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    • Hobbs57
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 11:05pm

      Sorry for my terrible grammar, this key board is crap and I can’t type and watch the screen just yet…Spell check doesn’t reveal my stupidity and I I should at least read through my statement before I post, I just get so fired up at these people. AS I know it is this mentality that lead me to addiction in a million different ways. It is Faith that has restored me to sanity and got me sober.

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    • jzs
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 11:23pm

      Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks} says, “Exactly, the government is imposing its control tighter and tighter upon us all one piece at a time; just under Mr Obama, it is in the open now and no longer hidden in the shadows. Soon enough I would not be shocked if they made breathing or living a criminal offense.”

      Thanks Snowleopard for perfectly illustrating the disconnect between reality and the Tea Party version of reality. Cigarettes kill those who smoke. That is reality. Smoking cigarettes is deadly, one of the most preventable causes of premature death in the United States.

      The government is requiring additional, graphic warnings of the consequences of smoking on packs of cigarettes.

      That’s a good thing right? No, not according to Snowleapord. A warning on a pack of cigarettes, according to Snow, is “control by the government.”

      That’s where you are wrong Snow. A warning of the deadly effects of smoking is not “the government controlling your life.” It’s education. Smoking will kill you. Telling you that isn’t “controlling you,” it’s just warning you.

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    • Partygirl
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 11:28pm

      That is right all they want is control over us and the companies. Nanny state. Really sick of it. My entire family smokes and the ones that died were 90 and they didn’t have any thing remotely related to smoking. Maybe they will now say old age is caused by smoking? I am really sick and tired of this government telling us what to do. Freedom, yeah right. Every chance they get they find something else that is for our own good. Do as your told. Do they really think this will cause any one to quit smoking? Just go out and get your cigarette cases now. Months ago I bought mine on ebay and sent one to my sister too. Maybe it is time to go back to the cigarette cases where cigarettes were always kept. Who is going to keep the packaging. I guess they didn’t learn from prohibition. Maybe they will never learn. But I took statistics and the entire bad cigarette thing is about as scientific as global warming. Think genetics. Climate change, read history. It is all about money for the government and their new world order.

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    • Alfredo2131
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 9:17am

      Fat Uncle ‘Flim-Flam’ Sam says “To all my Nieces and Nephews: ‘When my Brother/Sister didn’t care for you, I took you in. I fed you, clothed you, and kept you safe. I freed your mind-cleansed your thoughts, kept you free from those “anti-life delusions” of non-sequitors called, “Individuality” and “Free To Think For Myself.” You suffered under such beliefs! Suffer no more! My gift to you: a plus-good, pro-reality, thought-life system called: SAMENESS. Yes, we are One, we are Same. Why? Because your Differences caused your sufferings, but in SAMENESS we all have Peace and suffer no more.

      Our Motto is: DIFFERENCE CAUSES PAIN-SAMENESS CAUSES PEACE. Let us blessed as
      ONE IN-SAME!
      Oh my children! I am Father and Mother to each of you! I Love You! I Want What Is Best For You! Every day I pray for you to receive the wisdom of the “I’M-MORALS” that you might attain such lofty status. Be an IM-MORAL as it will lead you into CONFORMITY; for this, also, is the great good in life. SAMENESS and CONFORMITY!
      One last thing: I work hard for YOU, and invest MY MONEY to keep you healthy! Smoking is being DIFFERENT, and DIFFERENCE CAUSES PAIN! See the pictures on cigarrette packs? They reveal the TRUTH of the suffering of DIFFERENCE!

      SAMENESS CAUSES PEACE! IM-MORAL IS CONFORMITY!

      My Children: I LOVE YOU. I WILL TAKE CARE OF YOU! I WANT WHAT IS BEST FOR YOU!

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    • DimmuBorgir
      Posted on June 27, 2011 at 9:06am

      Smoking tobaccos is a luxury

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    • jkendal
      Posted on June 27, 2011 at 9:12am

      “…a dour-faced Nanny instructing you to “do as you’re told.” She also doesn’t seem to mind collecting her tax-dollars from each sinful pack of cigarettes”

      If the government REALLY cared about people being harmed by cigarettes, then cigarettes would be illegal. But as long as the tax money keeps rolling in…….

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    • Jaycen
      Posted on June 27, 2011 at 12:57pm

      @CatB

      Cronyism. Several (not all) large companies in America have some kind of relationship with the guys in Washington. They don’t want to jeapardize their sweet deals, so they keep their mouths shut.

      Progressive CEOs are AT LEAST as dangerous as Progressive politicians. In fact, they might be more dangerous.

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    • Balthazor
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 12:58am

      @ JZS

      If that’s how you feel about graphic warning pictures on cigarettes, that they’re educational, then how would you feel about requiring that photos of aborted babies be hung in every abortion clinic? Would that still be merely educational, or would it be interfering with a woman’s right to choose?

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    • bigjack940
      Posted on June 28, 2011 at 1:28pm

      You are so correct in your post, and this is just a drop in the ocean of all ‘OUR GOVT> has planned for us. They‘re not content to see that we’ve already lost 2 generations to drugs. They want to finish dumbing down the rest of society, so they can finish destroying this country, and not have to worry about anyone trying to stop them. Its past time folks. We’ve got to rise up and stop this now.

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    • Lawlcat001
      Posted on June 29, 2011 at 2:57pm

      MaryJane is still better for you than cigs [has been PROVEN to not only slow cancerous cell growth, but completely HALT it (I like to imagine that the cancer gets too high and sits around like a loafer all day instead of doing its job: killing you :P)]. Sure, there’s more tar when you combust it, but, IF YOU USE A VAPORIZER, there’s literally no tar being inhaled. There are also e-cigs that are basically water/nicotine vaporizers! Just sayin – there are BETTER ways of catching a nicotine buzz than smoking a paper tube filled with tobacco and additives! ADDICTS, GET WITH THE TIMES! THE FUTURE IS HERE!

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