See the Top 5 Graphic Images About to Appear on Cigarette Packs
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RICHMOND, Va. (The Blaze/AP) — In the most significant change to U.S. cigarette packs in 25 years, the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday released nine new warning labels that depict in graphic detail the negative health effects of tobacco use.
Among the images to appear on cigarette packs are rotting and diseased teeth and gums and a man with a tracheotomy smoking.
Also included among the labels are: the corpse of a smoker, diseased lungs, and a mother holding her baby with smoke swirling around them. They include phrases like “Smoking can kill you” and “Cigarettes cause cancer” and feature graphic images to convey the dangers of tobacco, which is responsible for about 443,000 deaths in the U.S. a year.
Each label includes a national quit smoking hotline number.
The labels will take up the top half – both front and back – of a pack of cigarette packs. Warning labels also must appear in advertisements and constitute 20 percent of an ad. Cigarette makers have until the fall of 2012 to comply.
Business Insider compiled the new graphic images. Below, we’ve chosen the top five most disturbing:
See the rest at Business Insider.
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Comments (161)
wewantchillywilly
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 11:07amNanny state!!!!
what about alcohol? are they going to put this on beer cans? liquor bottles? you can argue alcohol is the worst of all these substances.
nobody is forcing you to smoke. this is where I love Ron Paul. legalize it all!
Report Post »John 3:16
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 11:04amI think the government should force McDonald‘s to put a picture of Michelle Obama’s FAT Bottom on all their Big Mac wrappers and if they don’t, the federal government should confiscate the entire business and run it the way, your majesty, KING HUSSAIN OBAMA, wants it run, well with maybe just a little imput from the, sick LITTLE man, Georgie Sorros.
Report Post »tweetybird
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 11:01amThe WHO (World Health Organization) has it’s paws on this one. I find it disturbing when I read statements like….“The most powerful tool at our disposal is a treaty” and “The WHO FCTC is the world’s answer to the tobacco epidemic”. http://www.who.int/tobacco/wntd/2011/background/en/index.html
Report Post »Midwestern Guy
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 11:01amMy question is how much and to whom did the FDA pay for the pictures …
Report Post »nomercy63
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 10:59amCan we put death faces on every bottle of beer sold in America!!!!!!!!!!!! Bunch of agenda based hypocrites!!!
Report Post »QweeQwa
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 11:18amThere are actually health benefits from drinking a beer or two per day. The same can not be said about smoking.
Report Post »Ironeagle
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 10:59amI don’t know about you, but with all the crap thats hitting the fan in the world right now, it may not be a good time to quit smoking or drinking.
Report Post »Apple Bite
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 10:58amBrought to you by the same woman that said “Hey, we might need to buy lots of iodine pills to keep from getting sick by Japan’s Nuclear Crisis…..”
This won’t change a thing, guaranteed. Obama will still smoke behind closed doors. You can’t scare people that already know the consequences of their actions. Hell, my ex smokes and she has asthma.
Report Post »Tiny2bit
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 10:57amSimilar images have been on Canadian cigarette packs and cartons since 2000. Smoking is expensive and it makes your clothes stink. Smoking persists. Some smokers even jokingly call them “cancer sticks”. I seriously doubt pictures of dying people, rotten teeth and what-not will help much.
Report Post »pghpatriot
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 10:56ami laugh when i hear people like john dean and others call the conservatives and tea-partiers the ‘gloom and doom’ party. don’t they get it? there are some people who are going to smoke no matter what. they pay higher insurance premiums. this is a free country (at least for the liberals.)
wait until they include a vial of a necrotic lung submerged in formaldehyde, or a pinch of the cremated remains of a smoker in each pack. i can just visualize the posters plastered on the doors of Burger King and McD’s as you go in to buy a triple cheeseburger. when they want to make a point there is no limit, but if the MAJORITY repeat MAJORITY to make a point it has to pass the racist test, and the bigot test, and the non-religious test, and the revolutionary test. frankly, i’m tired of their tests! I WANT THEM OUT IN 2012 and i want US to hold the conservatives/republicans feet to the fire just as much.it’s time we start running OUR country instead of it running us!
only one way. get involved! stay involved! VOTE! it’s time we put up or shut up! if you have young adults of voting age, talk to them. impress upon them that this is not a popularity contest or a rebellion vote. this isn‘t an ’anti’ vote. it is a vote for their future. if they vote for him, so be it. it is their right. just so when they are asked in an exit poll, (this time, unlike last) ‘what does obama stand for?’ they will have some idea other than he is black, or he speaks well. answers given in 2010.
Report Post »IMPEACHBHO
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 11:16amWE the PEOPLE:
Report Post »1. REPEAL ALL OF OBAMACARE AND ALL OF HIS\HER EXECUTIVE ORDERS AND APPOINTMENTS, CZARS, ETC.
2. END THE FEDERAL RESERVE AS WE KNOW IT
3. RESTORE OUR CONSTITUTION
4. RESTORE OUR JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
5. SECURE OUR BORDERS AND NO AMNESTY.
6. BALANCE THE BUDGET WITHOUT RAISING TAXES, AND PAY DOWN ON OUR NATIONAL DEBT.
7. REJECT UN AGENDA 21 AT ALL LEVELS IN AMERICA, AND REINFORCE OUR NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY
8. RESTORE CONGRESS
9. END THE U.S. DEPT. OF EDUCATION
10. REFORM OUR NEWS MEDIA.
11. ESTABLISH ENGLISH AS OUR OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
12. STAND WITH ISRAEL
13. END PUBLIC SECTOR UNIONS
14. NEVER START A WAR, BUT ALWAYS FINISH IT.
NJTMATO
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 11:29amAmen
Report Post »The Gooch
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 10:53amI’d still rather watch a thin person smoke than a fat person eat.
Report Post »Maybe we can start putting such ham-fisted warnings on cars, cell phones and ballpoint pens… they end lives, also. Hell, I believe you could do just such a campaign against govt…. it’ll kill you, too.
Hooray for the busybodies!
2bfree
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 10:48amPerhaps they should add pictures of fat people on fattening foods like ice cream, or maybe, pictures of damaged livers on bottles of alcohol. Why is it ALWAYS the smokers who receive their wrath? I thought this was a free country, why is the government getting involved with personal choices we make? Get out of my life!
Report Post »John 3:16
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 10:46amGenetics kill too! Abortion kills much faster then smoking. My father has used smokless tabacco and cigarettes all his life. He still chews tobacco at age 96 and turns 97 in Sept. He has a memory that doesn’t quit and still walks without any walking aides. Infact, I guarentee he could still ride a bicycle. Do I promote tobacco use? No. but I will say genetics plays a big roll. Beside why is the government sticking their nose in our business? Why can government tell private business they have to be smoke free? The nanny state has gone too far forward, now it’s time to remove their control on private lives and businesses. Nevertheless, I do promote TEA over the liberal koolaid. TEA!
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 7:37pmYou can’t show a dead Osama but you can show a dead American who dared do something legal.This is an expression of contempt for humankind [how dare people do things we tell them are bad for them?How dare everyone not be fanatics about health like us?]Yet they’ll ban anti-abortion demonstators from holding graphic images of murdered babies.This contempt for humanity[life] is subliminal and repressed and surely they rationalize that it‘s out of love of people and life that they show these disgusting images but really it’s repressed contempt for humanity. We‘re all tying to get through life as best we can and we’re flawed and sometimes irrational too.These people can’t accept that and wish to mold us according to their health obsessed consciousness;their idol.We’re all headed the same place ,the grave whether we smoke or not!.
Report Post »harumph
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 10:43amDo the people in the photos (or their relatives) earn royalties for the use of their pic in this gov’t advertising campaign?
Report Post »ricksaint
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 10:42amMaybe next they will post pictures of fat obese people with heart disease on McDonald’s wrappers, rotten teeth on candy wrappers, AIDS patients on condom wrappers, pictures of diseased livers on beer cans, maybe even discarded fetuses on Planned Parenthood brochures! Gimmee a break, my parents raised me and I became a man! We don’t need government being our guardian now!
Report Post »RodT82721
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 10:42amI think it’s a little strange that Congress can make 100 Watt light bulbs illegal, that do nothing but perform the job they are purchased for, but they do everything that someone can think up, to stop smoking, except outlaw the source. Congress loves that tobacco tax.
Report Post »Banshee34
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 10:35amCould I sue for mental anguish by being exposed to these pictures when I buy a pack of smokes?
Report Post »pghpatriot
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 10:58amyou could if you belonged to the ACLU.
Report Post »NJTMATO
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 11:23amOh my goodness BANCHEE!!! I love it!!!!! If I leave a cigarrette pack lying around for a child to see and he has nightmares and is so upset, I CAN SUE and make TONS of $!!! Wonder which law firm I should solicit? One of those that advertise all the time about some drug doing you wrong? This is fun to think about!!! Do you think I should get a card from the ACLU and be a card carrying member before I file such a thing? Oh, I can’t wait till those things come out with pics on them! I can then laugh all the way to the bank, unless, of course the ACLU takes all the $ OOOOOhhhhhh, this could go SO many ways! What a STUPID, STUPID waste of taxpayer money.
Report Post »NJTMATO
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 11:24amsorry, i spelled your name wrong…..
Report Post »MidWestMom
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 11:30amWondering the same myself.
Can smokers sue because the law specifically targets a group of individuals and depicts them in a negative way? Isn’t that predudice?
Can I sell the Koran labeled with pictures showing an Islamic Jihadist beheading an “infidel”? After all, Jihad kills and people should be warned.
Can I sell Gay Pride flags with pictures of Aids victims on the labels? After all, homosexuality can be dangerous to your health and people should be warned.
And why aren’t Beer & Alcohol companies required to show pictures of drunks, the livers of alcoholics or the body of someone who was killed by a drunk driver? After all, drinking kills and people should be warned.
The list of products and activities that “aren’t good for you and/or can kill you” goes on & on & on & on…………I guess the government is going to require “warning” pictures on all of them? Right?.
One more example of the government intruding on & dictating individual choice as well as free enterprise. And I felt the same way when the government mandated those written warning statements on cigarettes.
Report Post »MidWestMom
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 11:47amLet’s not forget those pictures are also intended to terrify children into not smoking. Isn’t that the same thing the Liberals are accusing the Conservatives/Tea Party of doing? They scream that from the rooftops. But this, ….not so much huh?
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 10:31amWill they post pictures of chopped up baby parts at abortion clinics?
Report Post »last frontier
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 11:11amAfter 2012 we will use some American taxpayer funds to rent some freeway billboard space and put up some late term abortion photos, and some aids patient photos to show people what happens when you go up the wrong shoot. These are all safety concerns as well.
Report Post »starman70
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 10:30amI don‘t smoke and haven’ done so for more than 40 years. This was MY choice.
Do they really think that dedicated smokers will be deterred by this? Yes, smoking kills many but there are many cases where 90 year olds have smoked all their lives and died from other causes.
Nobody who is a serious smoker will pay any attention to these pictures. The attitude of: “I wll die of something so it might as well be cigarettes” will win out. Just another governent attemp to control thought.
Report Post »starchy
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 10:29amI don’t get it – they plan to pay for all kinds of things with tax dollars from cigarettes (the first tax Obama increased coming into office), then they discourage us to smoke with these warnings and pay to help us quit with their hotline. So – does the government want us to smoke or not?
Report Post »Fedupwithprogressives
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 10:28amCanada has had similar warnings on cartons and packages for years. I don’t think it made any difference to the smokers.
Report Post »welovetheUSA
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 10:26amThey have had these kinds of pictures on cigarette packs in Canada for years………no one looks at pictures when they smoke….waste of tax payer money when over 60% still smoke…a huge money maker for the government.
Report Post »BigBadBoogeyman
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:30pmAccording to this, only 20% of Canadian smoke. I don’t know where you get 60%.
http://www.smoke-free.ca/factsheets/pdf/prevalence.pdf
At over $10 a package, people can’t afford to smoke and smoking is banned practically everywhere.
Report Post »ILoveGlenn
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:41pm@Bigbadboogeyman, Do you suppose that’s the kind of regulation we need here in the US?
Report Post »SREGN
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 10:26amGreat. Now put similar pictures on cell phones.
Report Post »ILoveGlenn
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:20pmHow about on alcoholic bottles? It’s about time they stopped those ads on TV.
Report Post »flsnipe
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 10:23amThats fine but maybe they should show an abortion being conducted at planed parrent hood
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 10:45amBingo!
Report Post »Cajunsurfer
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 11:23amI agree!
Report Post »CalvinandHobbes
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 11:42amHow about combining the two…A woman smoking WHILE getting an abortion!!
Report Post »MidWestMom
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 11:51amYep. Should be required on the front door of abortion clinics and Planned Parenthood clinics.
Report Post »After all, abortion kills. And that includes the women themselves – they can die from the procedure.
Untameable-kate
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 11:53amThis administration is more likely to put a picture of starving, struggling mothers in adoption centers. They would have to go to a third world country to get the pics, but, oh well.
Report Post »bunniethecat
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 12:23pmI agree!
Report Post »ReviveOurNation
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 10:20amMaybe this will help Obama to quit smoking?
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 11:09amHe will quit smoking…….in front of people.
Report Post »AFPhys
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 11:41amHe won’t quit with this “campaign”.
These pictures are more amusing than scary. People are going to look at them and say “well, I could die in a car accident instead” or breast cancer, or being killed by an illegal alien.
These pictures won’t inspire very many to quit, and I will bet they will become collector’s items, to boot.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 10:16am.
Report Post »Does Obama still smoke? OH please, please, please…….
TexasCommonSense
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 10:24amYes he does, but I’m OK with it.
None of these images will do much good. People will still smoke no matter what.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 10:34amThey may as well put obese people pictures on Ho-ho’s for all the good it will do.
Report Post »Clive
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 10:43amBeing bombarded by negative images everytime you smoke might have some small effect, maybe the quit rate will increase by 1% or something.
and obama has been off smokes for a year i think. i heard he chews nicorette. a lot of it.
Report Post »Untameable-kate
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 10:48amTexas,
Report Post »I think you are right. We have known for decades that smoking will kill you and there are still thousands of kids starting up every year. The smokers will just go out and buy cases for their smokes so they don’t have to look at those disgusting pictures.
drbage
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 10:49amThe irony/hyprocrisy(you choose) of this whole campaign is that the entire funding for the CHIPS program (visualize the Dems surrounding themselves with human props) comes from the federal taxes on cigarettes. Further, the settlement in the big tobacco lawsuit in Florida was supposed to go to funding anti-smoking campaigns and providing monies to help people stop smoking. Since the settlement, I have lived in five different states and have yet to see any such program enacted. What will the feds decide to tax to fund the CHIPS program or will Nobama Care eliminate the need?
Report Post »Libertyluvnmomma
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 10:50amWe should all call that number and find out the rest of the story.
Find out how much those people are paid, what are their hours and benefits (healthcare?)and holidays and exactly what they tell callers.
SEIU?
As a former smoker who quit without help from the government I’ll bet dollars to donuts, like everything the gov. touches this too, will turn to sh*t.
Report Post »Dahart
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 10:56amI guess they are tried of nudging…so now they are going to start shoving……
Report Post »IMPEACHBHO
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 10:59amForce beer companies, wine companies, etc., to put mangled cars and body parts from drunk drivers. This is worse than smoking. I’d rather deal with second hand smoke than some drunk plowing into me at 90mph.
Yes, there are things that can be bad for you. But not all smokers die from cancer, some live to be a 100. Not all that drink drive drunk.
THE POINT IS, the government needs to stay the hell out of private business. Warnings and stats are fine to inform, but this goes too far.
If this is okay, then we need to be warned about Marxism and communism, with images of the horrific murders that they have done to their own people…..
Report Post »BuckOfama
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 11:03amA pic of obama on a pack of cigs would probably be more helpful…… I wish that thing beside his nose was from smoking.
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 11:04amWARNING: A BIG, Tyrannical government can kill you even faster!
Report Post »younowknow
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 11:25amThe people that produce this crap so believe everyone but them and their comrades are so stupid.
The guy with the teeth, if he never smoked and cleaned them fangs every hour, his teeth would not look any better. Smoking didn’t cause that-he was born that way as in most of the other pictures listed. We all look different to the people around us.
They are just pointing out the over obvious looking (revolting) people that smoke saying this could happen to you.
No it will not, get a life a$$- stop trying to run mine with your fake props.
Yes I smoke. PS: has anyone look to find out if cancer is still the number one killer even after we found it was (not by facts- just the willing media) to be the cause because of second hand smoke? The numbers have not changed after banning smokers from all public gatherings. The numbers have not changed a thing, cancer is still on the rise.
Smokers had nothing to do with it at all.
Report Post »JRook
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 11:34amHow’s about we go back to the Vietnam days and bring the bloodshed in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, etc. ever night into the living rooms of Americans. Perhaps then we will see the suffering associated with investing in a war machine as opposed to the US. Invest in building our future, as frankly I could care less about what type of government other countries have or what their ideology is. If they threaten us overtly through an act of war then we should retaliate with everything we got. Our position in the world is much more determined by our economic strength, not the size of our military industrial complex or military spending.
Report Post »Sound The Trumpet In Zion
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 11:35am@TexasCommonSense
Report Post »You are correct on that. And considering that while smoking is a VERY BIG CONTRIBUTING FACTOR to these claims. They are not the CAUSE! They claim that this is the cause because of a consensus and we all know how reliable a consensus is just like global warming. No one should smoke, I quit a few months ago after 40 years of smoking and it is the choice of each person if they wish to smoke or not.
hauschild
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 11:42amProgressives will never fully accept the concept of free will. They also will never accept the fact that no matter what, some people are simply predisposed to certain conditions and illnesses and not everyone is built to live to be 100 years old – which is another odd thing considering progressive’s push for death panels.
Report Post »70S_KIDS_FIGHTING_SOCIALISM
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 11:58amIf kids started smoking early like they did in the 70′s childhood obesity would not be a problem. Second hand smoke from parents is also very helpful. We were thin as rails and could play sports all day long. So give a kid a pack or blow smoke in their faces to bring those healthcare cost down. If everybody does their part we can knock out childhood obesity in no time at all. Get a bumper sticker that says smoking prevents childhood obesity. Its the right thing to do.
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 12:00pmThis whole idea is B.S. it’s ideologs using government to destroy a business.
Report Post »If they’re going to do this then they must show people who have been killed by car in G.M.advertising
They must show rotten teeth in advertising candy
They must show what mercury poison does to you in their new green light buld advertising
They must show obese children and adults when advertise multimedia products
They must negative results of any given product when advertising a product
independentvoteril
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 12:02pmListen I know people who SMOKED for YEARS.. and YEARS and NEVER had any problems.. while a friend of ours DID NOT smoke died of LUNG CANCER.. NO ONE will bother with the packages cause NO ONE believes the GOVERNMENT ANYMORE..The left has been FEAR MONGERING for so long.. people tune them out.. the real danger in smoking they are NOT addressing and that would be the ADDITIVES they are allowed to put in cigarettes.. Wonder if they will put the same warning type labels on prescription drugs that cause depression.. suicidal thoughts.. and BEST of all LYMPHOMA (Cancer)….
Report Post »USAMama
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 12:12pmSo now in America, you know, where we have the “free market” can the Federal Government force a private industry to sabotage their own product…. >>sigh<<
I don't smoke, used to but wised up and quit. I know the dangers as my mom has chronic COPD from years of it. And I think its fine to tell people the dangers of it and I don't even have a problem with anti smoking ad campaigns. But I DO have a problem with the Feds forcing any private company to put this kind of stuff on their own product. THAT is over stepping BIG TIME. The federal government should have NO SAY in how a product is packaged or advertised!
Report Post »JRook
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 12:15pmMy father had a great say…“Your civil rights end a the tip of my noise where mine begin”. Liberty for all means just that. Americans need to get off their ideological horses, particularly the religious ones, and stop trying to control other people. The best approach in any situation is to ignore the zealots on both sides. Examples… most we agree that late term abortions should be stopped, but woman should have the right to reproductive choice including early term abortions…. US citizens should have the right to bear arms, but there is no rationale for them to have military grade assault weapons.
Report Post »Cryodawn
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 12:20pmI don’t smoke, so why are they showing me disturbing images? I’m just saying, at some point they are taking the message too far with my tax money. Next are they going to put labels of dead people on guns you buy? Maybe we can put dead people on salt, bread, meat, eggs, soda, or milk? You can’t eat anything now days without it being bad for you. What about my car, do I need a mangled warning on that too? Oh, and lets also put a picture on every power pole because people just don’t know the dangers of electricity. Do we need to inform people of sexual diseases on condoms and forms of birth control too? The list for this can just go on and on…. and let’s not forget everything that is known to the state of California to cause cancer.
Basically, if they can force them to put disturbing images as warning labels on ANY products then they can do it to a happy meal.
Report Post »wildjoker5
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 12:23pmIt will be like a trading card game. “I will give you 2 rotten teeth for a deformed lung.”
Report Post »101
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 12:56pmEverything causes cancer, so why not label everything with a picture of a dying cancer patient…who’s the idiot that came up with this anal idea! WTF
Report Post »John 3:16
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 1:38pmSmoking is as american as apple pie, many of our founding fathers smoked, People aboard the May Flower smoked. I would not recommend anyone to start but it is still their right to do so. What we need to outlaw is the nanny communist government and their anti-freedom agenda. Let’s focus on crushing out the liberals, not cigarettes. The nanny government keeps forcing big tabacco to alter their cigarettes with chemicals which make them more dangerous. But I doubt they really care.
Report Post »tarbush
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 1:44pmThe way he’s running things I would have sworn he was back on crack.
Report Post »Hephzibah
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 2:05pmHow would we know if O smoked or not, with this group of psychiatric programmers running the mainstream media? They would either lie or omit. Somehow I doubt he’s quit. You don’t go into one of the most stressful jobs in the world and then just quit overnight. That is a wicked addiction. I say, let him smoke and continue covering for him.
Report Post »branch manager
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 2:10pmUh…its called brushing and flossing.
Report Post »LHS
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:25pmThat’s different. All politicians are special and you’re fecal matter. Remember that and you’ll be fine.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:46pmHow about them cell phones, they won’t show you the brains that they are cooking.
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 4:26pmMy husband died of lung cancer after smoking most of his life. He quit too late, God love him. He hated smoking and struggled to quit and finally made it. A little over a year later he had cancer. He started because everyone older than him in his family smoked-including his parents. He went in the Navy at 17, when skippers would take a ship out two hundred miles offshore so the guys could buy cigaretts for 25 cents per pack without the taxes. After everything has been said and done all these years we still have two smokers in our family. One was with his Dad when he died, one a foolish kid. I agree with ATI, nothing will work, ho-hos or bad pictures on packs, it is a decision only the smoker can make. My husband was a tough guy, but he said quitting was the hardest thing he ever did. His dying was even harder, and he never blamed anyone but himself. I will hope for the best that some will escape this poison.
Report Post »Bermuda Onion
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 5:47pmSo, is it OK now to put pictures of aborted fetuses on billboards next to abortion clinics?
Report Post »Armed Patriot
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 6:30pmIf you smoke, you already know the dangers. If it is such a health risk, outlaw it. This is just a nobama tactic to destroy another American industry. Is smoking bad for you, YES. Do we know it, YES. Is nobama trying to destroy another industry, YES. Outlaw it. I smoke. Quit for 10 years, then my granddaughter was born. I smoked a cigar in honor and that was all it took. I knew the dangers. I CHOSE. Dont destroy another industry that you dont have the courage to outlaw, if it is so deadly. MAKE A FRICKIN STAND NOBAMA. NOBAMA 2012!!! GO PERRY/BAUCHMAN 2012.
Report Post »Armed Patriot
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 6:31pmBermuda Onion… “So, is it OK now to put pictures of aborted fetuses on billboards next to abortion clinics?”
KUDOS!!!
Report Post »obama-mecca-me-sick
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 7:50pmPut Micheal Moore on the pack and I’ll quit.
Report Post »SgtB
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 10:58pmSo we are going to make smokers see photos of other smokers and the consequences of smoking every time they light up, but anti-abortion groups shouldn’t show pictures and testimony of mothers who have had abortions and the damage it can and does cause to all involved? DUMB. If every mother to be saw what the doctor does when an abortion is “performed”, I know we would see far less of them.
Report Post »content warning, if you can’t stomach seeing even just this simple drawn out depiction of what happens, you are probably normal and should be anti-abortion.
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Bruce
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 11:04pmAre they going to post abortion pics on condoms?
Report Post »daavidruth93
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 8:16amLets put a fat person on a candy bar, Someone picking their nose on a box of tissues, Someones dirty A** on a roll of TP, A person getting shot on a box of bullets, Oh YEA… A Clown in the White House!
Report Post »potcherboy
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 9:56amWhat are you saying. . . that you hope that Obama smokes so that he gets cancer? What kind of comment was that? While you (and I) don‘t agree with Obama’s platform or policies, we should not stoop to the level of vitriol seen on the Huffington Post comments about President Bush, Sarah Palin or any other lightning rod conservative/liberatarian politicians. Let’s have some civility and remember that we are all Americans and human beings. I‘m the last person to preach let’s-all-get-along-kumbaya-kumbaya, but comments like that by SPANKDAMONKEY just fan the flames of anger between parties.
Report Post »Czar Casm
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 11:52pmWe’ve got outfits like these anti-smoking campaigner‘s on one hand and on the other we’ve got Hollywood using cigarettes in their movies for the cool factor. The cool factor is a greater influence. Maybe they should talk to their pals in Hollywood.
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