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Cigarettes will carry grisly new warning labels
AP ^
| June 22 2011
| MICHAEL FELBERBAUM
Posted on 06/22/2011 1:35:39 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Rotting teeth and gums. Diseased lungs. A sewn-up corpse of a smoker. Cigarette smoke coming out of the tracheotomy hole in a man's neck. Cigarette packs in the U.S. will have to carry these macabre images in nine new warning labels that are part of a campaign by the Food and Drug Administration to use fear and disgust to discourage Americans from lighting up.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News
KEYWORDS: cigarettes; propaganda; smokers; smoking
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To: Voter#537
If the cost of cigarettes don't deter smokers, then nothing else will. Look at the price of a beer...
But, did you notice that the government wanted everyone to quit smoking, and is now attacking the ones who got fat? We really need to get the perpetually dissatisfied something else to do.
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posted on
06/22/2011 4:36:32 AM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: Berlin_Freeper
They are so concerned, yet will not dare mention that homosexuality is far more dangerous than smoking. To be honest I don’t care to see the pictures that might be associated with that advertisement.
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posted on
06/22/2011 4:38:09 AM PDT
by
LowOiL
("Abomination" sure sounds like "ObamaNation" to me.)
To: Berlin_Freeper
Yet some want to legalize pot.
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posted on
06/22/2011 4:42:26 AM PDT
by
FES0844
To: Berlin_Freeper
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posted on
06/22/2011 4:46:41 AM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: Smokin' Joe
Can’t wait to see the alcohol warning labels on a bottle of Budweiser or Jose Cuervo 1800...
To: LowOiL
Being ‘overweight’ is now no 1# cause for health risks, far surpassing smokers.
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posted on
06/22/2011 4:58:33 AM PDT
by
caww
To: oldsicilian
And they always suck.
Regards
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posted on
06/22/2011 5:18:26 AM PDT
by
Rashputin
(Obama is insane but kept medicated and on golf courses to hide it)
To: Berlin_Freeper
What an absolutely stupid and useless idea.
Though it will create jobs, so maybe not really bad..
New industry/business. Cigarette pack slip covers!!!!!
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posted on
06/22/2011 5:19:21 AM PDT
by
SECURE AMERICA
(Where can I sign up for the New American Revolution and the Crusades 2012?)
To: CT Hillbilly
Nah. Pictures of Michelle Obama. Not only will it act as a warning, but will put you off your appetite. . .
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posted on
06/22/2011 5:23:40 AM PDT
by
Salgak
(Acme Lasers presents: The Energizer Border: I dare you to try and cross it. . .)
To: Salgak
You got that right.
Every time I see a picture of Michelle Obama I get erectile dysfuntion for the next 24 hrs.
I am all for a Free Republic ban on Michelle photo’s.
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posted on
06/22/2011 5:36:46 AM PDT
by
Venturer
To: Berlin_Freeper
When are they going to start requiring abortion clinics to start posting 10 foot billboards outside their death mills with warnings and pictures of aborted fetuses?
To: Prince of Space
“So apparently that’s not too gruesome, but a picture of an aborted fetus is.”
Those hypocrites can’t even deal with showing the mother a picture of her soon-to-be-aborted fetus (sonogram), much less an already aborted one. That’s what gets me about this cigarette warning campaign.
To: Prince of Space
So apparently that's not too gruesome, but a picture of an aborted fetus is. So true!
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posted on
06/22/2011 6:42:11 AM PDT
by
newzjunkey
(49% of CA registered voters would reelect Obama? I need out of this state.)
To: SECURE AMERICA
Quote:
“New industry/business. Cigarette pack slip covers!!!!!”
We had a co-worker come over from Europe that had a couple
of slip-covers for his cigarettes, so I guess they are
already available overseas.
It looks like my mini pocket holster for my .380 is the
right size, also. :)
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posted on
06/22/2011 7:48:58 AM PDT
by
Verbosus
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To: Smokin' Joe
I heard a suggestion this morning on a local Denver station that all shoe boxes should come with a printed picture of the child-laborors from a Chinese sweatshop that made them.
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posted on
06/22/2011 7:51:28 AM PDT
by
Verbosus
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To: Verbosus
High Heels should come with a picture of Bunions on the box.
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posted on
06/22/2011 7:53:54 AM PDT
by
angcat
(DEAR GOD PLEASE SAVE US!)
To: Berlin_Freeper
It won’t help. Nearly all political advertisements today come with a picture of an untrustworthy asshole; we are forewarned but keep voting for them anyway.
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posted on
06/22/2011 7:58:21 AM PDT
by
andy58-in-nh
(America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
To: CT Hillbilly
Can’t wait to see the alcohol warning labels on a bottle of Budweiser or Jose Cuervo 1800...That could get really ugly...(8^D)
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posted on
06/22/2011 8:15:16 AM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: Prince of Space
So apparently that's not too gruesome, but a picture of an aborted fetus is.
There you have it.
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posted on
06/22/2011 8:20:48 AM PDT
by
Antoninus
(What part of "I won't vote for Romney under any circumstances" don't you understand?)
To: Venturer
That stands to reason: after all, her husband became President because of ELECTILE dysfunction. . . (evil grin)
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posted on
06/22/2011 9:28:57 AM PDT
by
Salgak
(Acme Lasers presents: The Energizer Border: I dare you to try and cross it. . .)
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