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A little bit harder to market this...

1 posted on 08/17/2012 7:52:49 AM PDT by Rio
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To: Rio

How about if they do that for sexual lubricants— pictures of STD and AIDs victims.

For that matter, what if they put pictures of broke gambling addicts on slot machines?

Or pimply nerds on video games?

Or obese people on large soda cups?

I see some potential here for just using the “ick” approach on any behavior.

But smoking gets to be the first one, because it’s a vice that it easy for “tolerant, non-judging” people to criticize.


2 posted on 08/17/2012 8:03:12 AM PDT by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: Rio

Put pictures of genital warts on condom boxes since they do not prevent all STDs.


3 posted on 08/17/2012 8:14:50 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Only Obama put a dog on the roof of his mouth. Dogs are friends, not food.)
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To: Rio
Smoking was always a women's issue in years gone by....just like drinking...."Temperance Movement" aka "controlling males"

But killing babies is okay AND THE FATHER HAS "0" SAY IN THE MATTER!!

We've entered the world of the absurd...

5 posted on 08/17/2012 8:24:16 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Rio

Magic marker will work well for that.


6 posted on 08/17/2012 8:36:09 AM PDT by Clock King
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The court also ordered the tobacco companies to pay the government's legal fees, but its reasons for the judgment won't be released until later this year.

Wow.

I had no idea how quickly the Australian government is moving toward "People's Republic" status.

Frightening.

7 posted on 08/17/2012 9:06:06 AM PDT by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: Rio

No problem.
Someone is going to make a fortune producing and selling a lightweight plastic cigarette pack into which smokers will transfer their cigs and throw away the Government package.


8 posted on 08/17/2012 9:06:41 AM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I sign up for the New American Revolution and the Crusades 2012?)
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To: Rio
I see these making a comeback.


9 posted on 08/17/2012 9:08:00 AM PDT by netmilsmom (Romney scares me. Obama is the freaking nightmare that is so bad you are afraid to go back to sleep)
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To: Rio
That's fine. Smokers will just transfer their cigarettes to old fashioned cigarette cases.

Anti-smoking campaigns like this are just over the top.

It's one thing to use the power of government to teach and inform the public about the dangers of certain behaviors, but forcing private companies to print repulsive images on their product packaging, in an effort to change behavior to suit the agenda of a small (but powerful) minority of elected, appointed, and self-appointed cultural wardens, is something a free people ought to reject.

It's through this sort of mechanism that God-given, unalienable rights are destroyed and forever lost.

10 posted on 08/17/2012 9:19:56 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Rio

These will be as collectable as “garbage pail kids”. Ignorant metrosexuals.


11 posted on 08/17/2012 10:02:04 AM PDT by Steamburg (The contents of your wallet is the only language Politicians understand.)
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To: Rio; All
I can imagine "kids" will collect all variants like baseball or Pokemon cards.
12 posted on 08/17/2012 10:46:45 AM PDT by newzjunkey (Election night is 82 days away.)
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Down-Under Nanny State PING!


13 posted on 08/17/2012 9:24:54 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Obama should change his campaign slogan to "Yes, we am!" Sounds as stupid as his administration is.)
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