SMOKING SCARE TACTICS - Cigarette packs may carry pictures of cancer-ravaged organs.

SkyNews ^ | 08/04/03 | Staff Writer

[bedolido]

Cigarette packs could soon carry distrurbing pictures of cancer-ravaged organs.

A new study shows smokers have become immune to current warnings on packets and calls for a radical re-think.

It could lead to the use of images pictures of damaged hearts and lungs to push home the 'smoking kills' message.

Experts at the Cancer Research UK Centre for Tobacco Control Research in Scotland led the European-wide investigation.

Interviews were conducted with 56 focus groups in Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Spain and Sweden.

Participants looked at pre-2001 "small" warnings on cigarette packs and current large "black and white" warnings.

The results showed it was vital for warnings to be continually "refreshed" to avoid smokers becoming immune to them.

One of the best methods of renewing warnings was shown to be through the use of images.

Research officer Elinor Devlin said: "This is a careful balancing act.

"There is a need to grab attention but we want smokers to then interact with the warnings, not feel victimised.

"Warnings should offer information to smokers so they know all the risks.

"A smoker then has facts to inform their decision on whether they should consider giving up."

Last Updated: 09:39 UK, Monday August 04, 2003

[bedolido]

[ctlpdad]

I think the ballots for dimwit dems should show a peanut sized brain to represent the obvious lack of cognitive capacity.

[Constitution Day]

[Afronaut]

Only a Moron would Smoke after knowing what we know now.

Add my Mom and Sister to the list.

[Paleo Conservative]

[robertpaulsen]

"Collect them all! Trade with your friends!"

This is a great idea. I suggest we extend this to putting posters of aborted children on the outside walls of abortion clinics.

[Calpernia]

Bump to you!

[steve50]

Next will be pictures of the damage caused to the intestines by red meat on the BigMac wrapper.

[RANGERAIRBORNE]

Boy, THAT'S an appetizing picture- glad I already had breakfast!

But, to get into the spirit of the thing, may I suggest that McDonald's should put photos of grossly obese people on their Big Mac wrappers? Makes about as much sense as this.

[RANGERAIRBORNE]

I was typing while you were posting- obviously great minds think alike, though. LOL!

[newgeezer]

Now THAT's a big organ!

[biblewonk]

Wow! That should bring about many conversions.

[Quix]

GREAT. Have advocated for that for more than 35 years.

[bedolido]

Now THAT's a big organ!

Stop that... you're gonna have all the female freepers going back to see what they missed... and maybe a few gay freepers.

[ChocChipCookie]

That should work about as well as posting pictures of fat people on the windows of McDonalds.

[MEGoody]

I wonder if booze bottles will carry pictures of destroyed livers and kidneys?

[MEGoody]

"Only a Moron would Smoke after knowing what we know now."

Only a moron would eat fast food knowing what we know now.

Only a moron would drink more than one or two drinks at a time knowing what we know now.

Only a moron would have sex outside of marriage knowing what we know now.

Only a moron would ride in a car without a seat belt knowing what we know now.

I could go on, but you get the picture. Sure, smoking is dangerous. But so are a lot of other things.

[the Deejay]

"I wonder if booze bottles will carry pictures of destroyed livers and kidneys?"

And damaged brain cells.

[the Deejay]

"Sure, smoking is dangerous. But so are a lot of other things."

Like walking down the street, being in a car, stopping in a 7-Eleven, making a wrong turn in a wrong neighborhood, illegal drugs, etc., etc., all of which can kill one faster than smoking.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Ladies, How About A Smoker's Beard?!

Smoking may give you bad breath, smelly clothing, yellow teeth -- but a beard??!! A recent study of more than 50,000 women found that those who smoked more than a pack of cigarettes a day were 50 percent more likely to have excessive facial hair than nonsmokers. The study attributed the abnormality to the affects smoking has on the balance of male and female hormones and the medical and cosmetic consequences of tobacco use.

[Dooderbutt]

Ok, we can post pictures of cancer-ravaged organs on cigarette packs (which, by the way we CHOSE to smoke), but if you try to put up pictures of an aborted fetus - who doesn't have a choice - on a billboard you're ripped up one side and down the other.

[stainlessbanner]

LOL! Will they start putting fatties on Oreo packages?

[Pearls Before Swine]

Maybe this idea will spread. Think of other things that could be labeled with "what can go wrong" images. Airplanes, ammo, personal lubricants--the possibilities are endless.

[xp38]

Old news...this has been going on in Canada for some time now.

[Constitution Day]

I reckon, man.

I have to say, this truth-in-advertising idea would be pretty amusing if applied to everything.

[Afronaut]

And because there is a lot of things that are not good for you Smoking is OK? Very Poor Logic. Better have another Cig. Are your fingers yellow? Hows that cough? Are you proud to be an addict? Or can you just quit anytime you feel like it?

I have heard it all, You are just plain stupid to smoke. Nicotine is more important than staying healthy and spending time with your children instead of dying an early death.

I went to a club in NYC and I could breath for the first time in my life. The only thing that Bloomberg did that I can thank him for.

[robertpaulsen]

"Think of other things that could be labeled with "what can go wrong" images. Airplanes, ammo, personal lubricants--the possibilities are endless."

From all of us in Project Mayhem to you.

[Prodigal Son]

By this standard:

Only a moron would join the Army knowing he's going to war.

Only a moron would drive or fly in a plane or have surgery under general anesthesia. Only a moron would skydive, scuba dive, muff dive or have any kind of sex. Only a moron would use power tools, barbecues, high heel shoes. Only a moron would be an anthrax (or other deadly substance) researcher, bomb disposal team member, race car driver or fireman.

Only a moron would've gone out West in America when it was still populated by scalping savages...

Life is just as much about living your own life, making your own choices and living with the consequences as it is about wringing every last microsecond out of it.

[Fraulein]

ping!

[Fraulein]

The only thing that Bloomberg did that I can thank him for.

Glad to hear that you are anti-property rights & that you support such socialist 'do-gooder statist' measures & that you are such a proud member of the hysterical crowd. /sarcasm

[Fraulein]

Nobody does SCARE TACTICS better than liberals.

[andy58-in-nh]

Just lovely. Hey, can we mandate that every SSI welfare check carry an image of a broken family?

[Madame Dufarge]

Only a Moron would Smoke after knowing what we know now.

Only a moron, in a free society, would call other adults morons for living their own lives, not hers.

[Afronaut]

Addicts are all the same. Pathetic

[Just another Joe]

Addicts are all the same. Pathetic

Apparently so are Afronauts that are addicted to making the state do their market work for them.
Pathetic.

[honeygrl]

They could name them Tumors and make the package say "You're going to die!" everytime you open it and it wouldn't make much difference.

[honeygrl]

"Maybe this idea will spread. Think of other things that could be labeled with "what can go wrong" images. Airplanes, ammo, personal lubricants--the possibilities are endless. "

Yep, the airlines would do really well with photos of crashed airplanes on their tickets. How about dead babies on the dash of the car where the airbag is? Photos of people puking on alcoholic beverage containers? Photos of gunshot wounds on ammo packages? Photos of people who have drown on signs near swimming pools? Photos of cellulite on anything with fat in it? Great ideas. /sarcasm Ultimately, it won't stop many people though.