Feds Propose Graphic Cigarette Warning Labels
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Corpses, cancer patients and diseased lungs: These are some of the images the federal government plans for larger, graphic warning labels for cigarette packages.
The images are part of a new push announced by the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday to reduce tobacco use, which is responsible for about 443,000 deaths per year.
The number of Americans who smoke has fallen dramatically over the past 40 years, but those declines have stalled recently. About 46 million adults in the U.S., or 20.6 percent, smoke cigarettes, along with 19.5 percent of high school students.
The new prevention plan is part of the law passed in June 2009 giving the FDA authority to regulate tobacco, including marketing and labeling guidelines, banning certain products and limiting nicotine. The law doesn’t let the FDA ban nicotine or tobacco entirely.
“Today, FDA takes a crucial step toward reducing the tremendous toll of illness and death caused by tobacco use by proposing to dramatically change how cigarette packages and advertising look in this country,” FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg said in a news release. “The health consequences of smoking will be obvious every time someone picks up a pack of cigarettes.”
The FDA is proposing 36 labels for public comment, which include phrases like “smoking can kill you” and “cigarettes cause cancer,” but also feature graphic images to convey the dangers of tobacco use.
The agency will select the final labels in June after reviews of scientific literature, public comments, and results from an 18,000-person study. Cigarette makers will then have 15 months to start using the new labels.
The new warning labels are to take up half of a pack — both front and back — of cigarettes and contain “color graphics depicting the negative health consequences.” Warning labels also must constitute 20 percent of advertisements.
“It acts as a very public billboard because you all of the sudden are reading something about lung cancer from that pack behind the cash register, whereas before you were just reading Marlboro,” said David Hammond, a health behavior researcher at the University of Waterloo in Canada, who is working with the firm designing the labels with for the FDA.
In recent years, several countries have introduced labels similar to those proposed by the FDA.
While it is impossible to say how many people quit because of the labels that have been introduced in several countries, Hammond said every source of evidence suggests that the labels do help people quit.
Given the population in the U.S., the impact of the warning labels could be “significant,” Hammond said.
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Comments (153)
cstcomputers
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 12:47amThe ads for automobiles, Fatty foods, AIDS from unprotected Sex, you name it would be just as bad and they are just as dangerous as Cigs folks, if not more so…
Report Post »HUGGINGMYBABIES
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 12:42amI’d want proof and not conjecture. Canadians have had these pictures for years and smokes that cost twice what they do here……they smoke like the French……a lot!
Report Post »DMD
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 12:37amThats as dumb as the WARNING label that doesn’t work either.
Report Post »joseph Fawcett
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 12:14amThey say they try to stop us smoking, but if we did they would be bancrupted in a week. the taxes on tobacco is so high now I bet the they fund at least 1/4 of states budgets and a good protion of the Fed budget.
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Report Post »free2bme1961
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 12:11amThis new found concern for all, is almost….believable. It probably just means, they want to have a chance to kill me, in their own way!
Report Post »doctroprint
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 12:11amI smoke, it sux and I already know this. Past year aprox 2.50 in sin tax has been added to
Report Post »the habit to pay gor other Government brain farts. What will they do when big tobacco is no more?
Quest4Truth
Posted on November 12, 2010 at 8:13amWhat will they do when BigTobacco is no more? They are replacing it as we speak. Nearly 25% of former tobacco growers are now growing wine grapevines and are being trained in winemaking. Does anyone know the comparitive taxes on wine vs cigarettes? Ever hear of taxes going down?.
Report Post »Anyone can drive a car after smoking ten cigarettes, can you do the same with ten glasses of wine?
Oh, this may or may not be relevant ( you decide), Our gal Nancy owns lots of acres of winegrape vinyards in California. Henry Waxman and Rob Reiner cut themselves in on $1.00 per pack to educate “the children”.
Oh, where power goes, money flows.
psst
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 12:08amIMO. The government should make it mandatory that all new infants should be given a tat that says.
Report Post »Warning. Living will absolutely kill you.
What a phflucked up country.
Cigarettes bad. Ganga good.
Don’t eat fish, too much mercury. Even mercuric oxide 1%, best thing for stye banned. Mercury bad.
All the old light bulbs bad, Globalony warming you know. They will kill Mother.
All the new GE (HO-bama supporter) light bulbs now loaded w/ mercury that will end up in landfills and drain int the underground water system must surely be good for you.. After-all, it‘s GE’s mercury.Very healthy for you.
Don’t eat salt, or only one fine grain per year, don’t eat fat burgers, don’t drink sodas, don’t eat candy or cakes.No trans fat.
Just be Happy and spread AIDS.. AIDS is government approved.What? can’t take the happy peoples happiness away from them . Happy folks are preferred citizens.
See, all these things that are bad for you cost the government too much $$.. Now AIDS costs even more, but that is a government approved disease so there is no problemo.Happy folks, just keep on trucking. Did I just say trucking?, sorry, my mistake.
Don’t drink milk ,eat cheese or ice-Scream. Causes too many to much diarrhea. so everyone should refrain.
Don’t eat “K”ow. It will give you mad Kow disease,and have your girl chirrens/chilluns w/ big breasts and ovulating at age 7.. too much hormones.. Plus you’ll have high cholesterol
Don’t eat chickens, they are raised in slae chicken conditions. Given hormones to make them nice,plump and juicy at 6 weeks of age.Too much hormone feed. Plus their eggs gives you high chlesterol.
BTW. I have a friend in the hospital getting his lungs removed. He never smoked..Guess it Must be 2nd or third or even fourth hand smoking that got him
I think it was 4th, he kissed a girl who used to go out w/ a guy who did not smoke and his father did not smoke, but his father’s father did smoke.. kinda. . He was in charge of the smoke signals for the great Shawnee tribe. or was it the Sioux? These indians all look alike to me.But anyway, when he waved that blanket over the fire, the smoke got in his lungs and smoke got in his eyes too.How this girlfriend father’s father loved to sing that song by the Platters “Smoke gets in your eyes.It surely got in his, and his lungs too.
This is why many Indians have lung cancer, it’s herititary from all the smoke signals their kinfolks developed.
I think the government should ban smoke signals. Cooking w/ charcoals too.It signals to my neighbours to come and eat for free.
I think smelling charcoal lighter fluid is bad for the health, it smells bad. my chickens smells of lighter fluid when I BBq them..But the neighbours loves them. It’s free.
Sorry. I got carried away.
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TruthTalker
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 12:30amglad you got carried away.
Report Post »Deutscher
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 1:47amgovernment approved.What? can’t take the happy peoples happiness away from them . Happy folks are preferred citizens.
See, all these things that are bad for you cost the government too much $$.. Now AIDS costs even more, but that is a government approved disease so there is no problemo.Happy folks, just keep on trucking. Did I just say trucking?, sorry, my mistake.
Really? How is AIDS a govnt approved disease? What rock have you been under? Never seen a plea for condoms ( oh yeah, the churches blocked that one). If AIDS is approved by any organization it’s the churches who refuse safe-sex Ed, and condom distribution.
Report Post »MrButcher
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 12:04amthe only thing more comforting and relaxing than a gov’t issued decree
is
a nice long drag on a cigarette.
tobacco is a wondeful thing.
Report Post »Legal Immigrant
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 11:59pmCanada has had that for years on their packs.
You don’t notice afterawhile. might one day even become a collectible item like baseball cards.
“I’ll trade you two cancerous lungs for the swollen testicle. I need it for the Player’s light series.”
Report Post »Hoosier Daddy
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 9:34amWhen I was smoking I wouldn’t have cared if you made the cigarette packs out of lung tissue. I needed the nicotine and didn’t give a rats…lungs what was on the pack. As you alluded to, it only has temporary shock value and then you have to change the pictures often and then they become collectible.
Report Post »Samantha3
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 11:58pmLet me get this right. If Pro-Life groups want to put up photos of unborn children who are aborted it’s too graphic …. can’t do it. But the government can put photos of lung cancer on cigarettes? So we can’t protect an innocent unborn child with honest photos but using them to protect adults who are capable of making their own choice to smoke is fine.
Report Post »MrButcher
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 12:05amhonest?
there is no honesty in politics nor marketing.
but i welcome the attempts
Report Post »WISEPENNY
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 11:58pmSkip the graphics and just add enough tax to make them cost $10 a pack, even money.
Report Post »TruthTalker
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 12:23amYES! Also tax tanning salons and anyone who goes out into the sun and anyone who has a job where they might be injured and definitely anyone who practices risky sex and anyone who is overweight and anyone who eats french fries and cheese burgers and drink alcohol or diet sodas and eats anything fried and those who do that drive automobiles or ….insert the risk here…… WE are on the same page!
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 3:31amAny addiction that happens when you are too young to make a wise choice should be a societal concern. These ads don’t ban smoking. They are intended to educate young people. While pictures may deter some children from smoking, the most effective strategy is to expose them to people dying of emphysema or lung cancer. Children have to be shocked out of picking up a habit that initially looks so cool.
Some of you are so angry at govt. intervention that you are starting to sound like anarchists. Tobacco smoke is a pollutant, so it affects everyone. A society where hazardous practices are encouraged or given free rein does not survive. There is a fine line between liberty and anarchy, civilization and corruption. When “everyone turns to his own way,“ it is a sign that ”we like sheep have [indeed] gone astray.”
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 8:24amMaybe we should take responsibility for our own choices and stop forcing others to carry Nanny State words on products that they’re selling. Maybe we should try, for once, to mind our own friggin’ business. Don’t like smoking? Don’t smoke. Don’t like drinking? Don’t drink. Mind your own P‘s and Q’s folks, or eventually that Nanny State smothering “love” will be directed towards things that *you* enjoy.
Report Post »AMERICA4EVER
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 11:51pmThree things besides accidents can kill you quickly. Viruses, bacteria, and some molds. Smoking weakens cell structure and invites in any one of these. When was the last true medical break through you ever heard of besides the Salk polio vaccine. It was the vaccine for HPV . Don’t you really think by now we could have cured or found vaccines for about every known thing that threatens human health? It’s a business. With all the grants and charities, there are a lot of people making a lot of money. You can call me a nut, but I just don’t believe any of it. Too much corruption everywhere.
Report Post »Snowbunnie
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 11:49pmOnce again, welcome to Canada! – These abhorrent images adorn all cigarette cartons and packages sold in Canada.
Report Post »With Obama the US is getting closer and closer to the way Canada is governed.
With Obamacare and now the suggestion of the elimination of the mortgage deduction on income taxes the US WILL BE Canada. The only difference now is that the Canadian dollar is at par.
billwas22
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 11:38pmWe have had graphic displays on our cigarette packages for years and have them hidden from view in all stores in Ontario, Canada. The taxes on cigarettes have also been high which has led to significant decline of smokers. On the other hand smuggled smokes are entering our country by way of Indian Reserves that straddle our common northern border thus causing our governments a huge loss of taxes.
Report Post »Ronko
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 11:35pmI don’t like Goverment killing an industry but I will make an expection for this product. Smoking has to go I just hope people realize that it will kill you in 30 years.
Report Post »TruthTalker
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 12:15amI am with you in supporting San Fransico banning toys in Happy Meals! Gubberment knows better than us dumb hicks! Ronko! Ronko! Ronko! Why don’t these idiots think like us and know we have to control their behavior?
Report Post »valarie
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 11:33pmWhy…WHY…do we not take a lesson from the Mormons? Cigarettes WILL kill you. Hot drinks cause throat and esophageal cancers…they WILL kill you. It’s not so darn hard, folks. Don’t smoke, drink booze or drink things that are extremely hot or cold. It’s not really rocket science. Ugh….
Report Post »The American
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 7:36amUm …….. never mind LOL!
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 8:21amYou know Val, eventually you’re going to die. Won‘t you feel foolish if you’re laying dead on a hospital gurney, with cause of death listed as “nothing”?
Light’em up I say, and pass me a martini while you’re at it. This world is far too stuffy and overbearing, lighten up folks. Life is to be enjoyed.
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 11:10amYou know, Ghost of Jefferson, smokers don’t have a right to pollute the environment or choose to give others cancer. Without government awareness, I would still be inhaling secondhand smoke against my will. Smoking is not a private matter, and children deserve a chance to live a better lifestyle.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 11:31pmFirst amendment violation. You cannot force others to carry your speech against your will. That’s not free speech.
Report Post »xtreme66
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 11:31amI just roll my own (ciggaretts not pot!) and carry them around in an Altoids can. No nasty pictures there. Plus, it’s cheaper.
Report Post »valarie
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 11:29pmWhat I think is that IT’S ABOUT TIME! Get rid of the product, get rid of the TAXES attached to the product (MOST OF ALL) and be done with it. Unfortunately, I believe that the minute you threaten the “taxes” there’s gonna be a problem. Oh, and BTW, get rid of “pot”, too! It is ALREADY ILLEGAL! Sheese!
Report Post »HimmlersMasterPlan
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 12:04amSorry Val, let these things be legal. It will stop the Mexican drug cartels. Let the individual choose what they want to do with their body. If they want to put the toxic cigarette smoke in their body, f ‘em, let them do it. Same with pot. Prohibition is what’s going on with pot right now. People will always find a way to get their fix, so just give it to them. If they die or are extremely slow and stupid, it’s their fault. Doesn’t hurt you does it? Well, cigarette does so they should have to smoke it in seclusion and not in public where they can harm others.
Report Post »EP46
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 4:48amStrange as it may be….most states use cigarette taxes for school funding !! And potus has raised cigarette taxes, ahhh, for his school union buddies! This sounds more like an advertisement to sell more.
Report Post »Race
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 11:27pmWayull, I’m gonna sit here & type with a cig in my hand, just like always.
Point #1- If everyone quits, where are the state & federal governments gonna make up the lost tax revenue? I know… an AIR tax!
Point #2- Nobody gets outta this life alive, savvy? When/if I get lung cancer I’m NOT gonna hit up my medical plan for a lung transplant. I’m gonna take a nice long ride on my scooter, pick out a nice spot with a view, and die with some frigging dignity, not hooked up to a bunch of machines & tubes, surrounded by a bunch of folks who couldn’t care less about me.
Point #3- The government and all the do-gooders can kiss the darkest spot on my lily-white arse.
barthom
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 2:36amI agree that the federal government should not over-regulate us. However, it’s OK if we make ourselves healthy. Just before you die of cancer, try taking this herb, as directed. It‘s inexpensive and doesn’t hurt or anything to try. The drug companies are trying to make it into an expensive product. Take it as directed now. I can prevent cancer, which is better. Research it. It has fixed malaria, Tijuana trots. I understand how it works. We should always try the simple things.
http://www.kroegerherb.com/index.php/products/combinations_product/2453
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 11:19pmNow if they would only put pictures of aborted fetuses on the front doors of abortion clinics I might actually support these stupid pictures on cigarette packs.
Report Post »oldasdirt
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 11:34pmNick,dont stop thinking like me.
Report Post »mrsclark
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 11:49pmAh, so we dont have the right to smoke and kill ourselves, we cant kill murders, child rapists and terrorists, but we CAN kill babies!!
Report Post »LUDWIKA BRONISLAWA
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 12:40amGreat minds think alike ; )
Report Post »jackelope
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 10:41amThis is one of the greatest ideas ever. lets start a petition.
Report Post »Narya
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 9:33pmI second the motion. I would also like to add pictures of mangled bodies from car accidents on beer bottles and cell phones.
Report Post »rbqueen
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 11:17pmThis is ridiculous. YES, smoking is bad for you, YES, smoking is a CONTRIBUTING FACTOR in a lot of illness. YES, everyone needs to not smoke for their health. However, people that smoke are doing it with full knowledge of it not being healthy and it is their right to smoke or not smoke. All this malarkey that second hand smoke is more dangerous than actually smoking and that smoking CAUSES all these horrible illnesses show the stupidity of the people that make these claims either because of their desire to control what everyone else does or just because they don‘t want anyone else to do it because they don’t do it. This story only shows what the true cancers in our lives are the self-righteous wannabe do-gooders that want to control your lives. I was a respiratory therapist for over 20 years and while I fully know what the health risks of smoking are I still believe that you are not justified in lying about the dangers of smoking while at the same time claiming that the people that defend people’s right to smoke if they want are lying. They seem to think that because they are “lying” to improve everyone else’s health that lying is good and okay which makes them even worse liars they they are lying to themselves as well. I will also state that I smoked for over 40 years and I quit smoking a little over a month ago.
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 1:28pm“…show the stupidity of the people that make these claims either because of their desire to control what everyone else does or just because they don‘t want anyone else to do it because they don’t do it.”
The stupidity of your argument amazes me.
Report Post »komponist-ZAH
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 11:12pmIs that a “nudge” I feel….?
Report Post »rojotx
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 11:09pmDon’t they think people actually know this! Geez, can you say more nanny-state! I would think our Gubberment Has a whole lot more important things to be doin’. Careful watch the other hand!
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Report Post »Hanna
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 11:20pmI don’t get it….the same people who have made monsters out of cigarette smokers and done everything possible to eliminate it, are the same people wanting to legalize marijuana…can anyone explain that to me? Also, why does George Soros want pot legalized?
Highland
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 7:24amBetween this campaign and Mayor Bloomberg’s “soup will kill you” anti-salt jihad, I’ve just about had it with hysterical fear-mongering government propaganda. I need a drink!
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 11:08pmanyone got a light? all this talk about cigarettes and my lighter just died aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh
Report Post »TruthTalker
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 12:04amMy grandfather lived to be 103 years old. You ask, “so he smoked 3 packs a day?”, my response, NO. He knew to mind his own business and stay out of other peoples.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 12:18am@Truthtalker
My Gramps lasted until 85, death not due to cigarettes, he never smoked, never tried to and always threatened to clobber me with a cattle iron if I tried it out. Most likely he would have too.
Report Post »123gone
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 12:33amHow about adding mandatory death camp photos to all Demo-Socialist political advertising, or maybe graphic photos of Aids victims and VD wherever they sell condoms? Even better still, how about a mandatory label of traitor on all of Obama pictures.
Report Post »shorthanded12
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 1:04amas soon as I read the article I fired one right up…LOL , Government is such HYPOCRITS, Case in point: How is the federal government Funding SCHIP (State Children Health Insurance Program)? And the million dollar ANSWER IS: TOBACO TAXES.
Report Post »Tell ya to stop smoking but yet increase taxes on tobaco to fund a program for kids. What happens if enough ppl stop smoking and the money is not there to support SCHIP???? Oh let me guess RAISE Taxes on perfume smelling toilet paper….LMAO might be a joke on my part but its not to far fetch for the so called “elites” lawmakers.
grandmaof5
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 5:56amIf people haven’t gotten the message by now, I don’t think morbid packaging will do it. An addiction is an addiction, no matter what kind it is, ya just aren’t gonna deal with it until you make up your mind to on your own. Ya choose to smoke, ya hafta choose to quit!
Report Post »TruthTalker
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 11:07pmlmao!
Report Post »TruthTalker
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 11:17pmIf you drive or ride in an automobile, you are 1,000,000 times more likely to be killed in an automobile accident than if you never start driving/riding in automobiles. Don’t get me started on choking if you are eating. Odds of drowning if you never go into water, odds of falling down stairs if you never use them, odds of …you get the point. If you don’t, erm…that’s ok too. Yeah it is bad for you. Spread the word. Like people don’t already know….nanny state libs.
Report Post »what4
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 11:31pmHow bout pictures of morbidly fat people on burger warppers while your at it,,,,,Screw the gubment!
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 12:16am@What4
If you wish people to stop eating food so they lose weight, just put a picture of Pelosi on each article of food wrapping. Guaranteed to make anyone diet out of sheer disgust and loss of appetite.
http://www.artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm
LUDWIKA BRONISLAWA
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 12:33amOMG! That is going to be soooo COOL! Young people will definitely start smoking again! We used to smoke the ‘Black Death’ cause it was called ‘Black Death’ and had a skull and crossbones on it.They even cost more.
Report Post »This method will beat camel cash AND Marlboro gear hands down! I quit smoking, well, BEACAUSE I CAN, and I have the feeling in today’s crumbling society, I need to be combat ready! lol
LUDWIKA BRONISLAWA
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 12:37amOne more thing, when do they plaster abortion clinics with pictures of dead babies, baby pieces, and deformed survivors of abortions???
Report Post »southsik
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 5:15amDamn frigging idiots again again and again. I smoked for a little less than 20 years and have been quit for a little less than 20 years. I know how to quit the damn things. I smoked at the time of quitting 2 packs a day and was moving to more. The only way to quit cigarettes is to HATE them and to have a support person or group or someone you can talk to for a month to get through the addiction and then the physical habit. After a month its just grin and bear it and be a man or woman. Don’t be a baby. You quit cold turkey. End of discussion. Hell, with the price of a pack of cigarettes as high as it is I cant see how someone can afford to smoke. Just give it another year and that will reduce smokers. We don’t need anymore incentive except the price going up. This has to have some ulterior motive because it is just too damn stupid.
Report Post »HouseNegro
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 6:39amPromote Smoking we need the tax dollars and these morons are cutting their nose to spite their face. We need more smoking babies. Besides we have Obama Care so cancer and smoking related health issues will not be a problem……………….
Report Post »thesixfour
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 7:01amWarning! cigarettes can cause bad photoshop techniques…
Report Post »Polwatcher
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 7:06amI thought the sems were against graphic warnings on legal products and services. They have said that such warnings will leave emotional scars on people. Oh, I forgot. That was a different argument at a different time.
Report Post »The American
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 7:32amSnowleopard, way too funny and my thoughts exactly!
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 8:08amWhy doesn’t “Government” come with this kind of warning? You know, at the voting booth you get to see slide shows of the people who have had their homes confiscated by the IRS, or pictures of bodies being bulldozed into graves by government workers, or snapshots of gulags, along with stern words that government has killed more human beings than any other institution in history?
I mean hey, if we’re shooting for truth in advertising, why not go for the low hanging fruit first?
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 10:24amI talked to smokers and guess what I now have lots of orders for cigarette boxes..lol.. Thanks for allowing CAPITALISM to once again work PROGRESSIVES.. there are to many people who are living or lived LONG and healthy lives that either smoked or were exposed to second hand smoke their entire lives..right now even those who DON’T smoke are mad at the length of the NANNY governments reach into the lives of the people..One thing the government DOESN’T tell you is those who QUIT smoking DO NOT increase their lives and in many cases increase the rate they GET cancer..ALWAYS watch the other hand ..to be honest people QUIT listening to the GOVERNMENT and their warnings years ago.. what people are doing is looking at how their elderly parents/grandparents lived and go back to that..
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 10:40amsouthsik.. that ONLY works if one WANTS to quit.. some people prefer smoking to well EATING.. raising the price only makes them buy LESS of other things.. Here in IL they ban smoking in most places AND raised the prices.. NOW businesses are hurting (except for the chains).. people who rather smoke are entertaining at home, not spending money on going out to the movies, to eat, to shop, concerts (where many sit in their seats and smoke pot BUT no one lights a cigarette).. some people have smoking as their only vise.. and can’t imagine why those that drink waste their money on booze.. no matter what they do people that want to smoke will.. those that want to drink will.. etc.. and they WILL cut back on other things to do so..
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 11:56amIndependentvoteril said: “…there are to many people who are living or lived LONG and healthy lives that either smoked or were exposed to second hand smoke their entire lives .. those who QUIT smoking DO NOT increase their lives and in many cases increase the rate they GET cancer…”
So smoking is NOT hazardous to your health? State your sources, please.
“Secondhand smoke is a toxic cocktail consisting of poisons and carcinogens. There are over 4000 chemical compounds in secondhand smoke; 200 of which are known to be poisonous, and upwards of 60 have been identified as carcinogens.
When a cigarette is smoked, about half of the smoke is inhaled / exhaled (mainstream smoke) by the smoker and the other half floats around in the air (sidestream smoke). The combination of mainstream and sidestream smoke makes up environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) … 3000 nonsmokers die every year from lung cancer caused by ETS. … According to the EPA, between 200,000 and 1,000,000 kids with asthma have their condition worsened by secondhand smoke every year.” http://quitsmoking.about.com/cs/secondhandsmoke/a/secondhandsmoke.htm
If you think that only abortionists are accountable to God for killing innocent human beings, you are dead wrong. Go ahead and be cynical and ignore scientific facts. This is no laughing matter or something you can dismiss as government overreach or nobody else’s business. If you willfully contribute to ETS, you will be accountable to God as well. And that is something most churches WON’T tell you either.
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Posted on November 11, 2010 at 3:38pmHow much did this nonsense cost us? What a waste.
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Posted on November 11, 2010 at 7:53pmAlso… Isn’t our pres a closet/denial smoker? Just like his policy – do as a say, not as i do…
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