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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: Berlin_Freeper

Nicotine should be a perfectly legal drug like caffeine is.

They should put it in mints or something and then people who smoke to stay away can partake in that instead of having to inhale toxic smoke.

Oh the FDA nixed that idea.....


41 posted on 06/22/2011 4:12:05 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: Smokin' Joe

don’t I know it...

;)


42 posted on 06/23/2011 2:29:03 AM PDT by CT Hillbilly
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