Dead Body, Cancerous Lungs to Appear on U.S. Cigarette Packs, FDA Decides

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Images of a corpse and cancerous lungs are among the nine graphic warnings tobacco companies led by Altria Group Inc. (MO) must start placing on cigarette packs sold in the U.S. next year.

The labels, required under a two-year-old tobacco law to convey the health effects of smoking, also include pictures of rotting teeth and a man exhaling smoke through a hole in his neck, the Food and Drug Administration said today on its website. The FDA selected the nine images from 36 it proposed last year.

Cigarettes can’t be sold in the U.S. after Oct. 22, 2012, without the warnings, part of the biggest tobacco marketing rules change in a quarter century. Each pack must carry one of the nine labels pairing images with text such as “Smoking can kill you.” The graphics must cover the top half of the front and back of cigarette packages and 20 percent of print ads.


http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-...-appear-on-u-s-cigarette-packs-next-year.html
 
Will it stop people from smoking? Probably not. And what's with the cartoon font on some of these warnings?

The university I attended is basically funded by Altria Group (Philip Morris), as is basically everything else in the city I live in.
 
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They have warnings like that here and when people actually bother taking notice of them, it's usually to either point out how they haven't been dissuaded at all by them.
 
I met some canadian guys at roo. They said their cigarettes cost from 8 to 13$ a pack. That might have an effect also. Where I live, cigs are about 3 to 5$ a pack.
 
^Touche. I think prices have a lot to do with it. Most of the prices are taxes now. I imagine Canada has some pretty intense taxes, esp. on a vice such as tobacco usage.

Cigarettes range from $2.49 to $4.99 here in Richmond, Virginia (the home of Philip Morris), Marlboros range from $3 - $4 in the city and cheaper in Chesterfield County (which is south of the city - think Chesterfield cigarettes). Most places offer heavy discounts and/or coupons, its not uncommon to get two packs of Camels for four bucks.

Everybody smokes here, its part of the culture of the state. It's a long hard road for anybody who wants to raise the tobacco tax in Virginia and I'd say its a long hard road for anybody who wants to stop Southerners from smoking.
 
NeighborhoodThreat said:
Will it stop people from smoking? Probably not.
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It stops me sometimes. My lungs usually start hurting shortly after I relapse on cigarettes, and the soreness resonates with the images and causes me to develop a bit of an aversion to buying a pack when I'm at the gas station counter or some other point-of-sale.
 
Yea i saw this when i was in england. SMOKING KILLS and it actually took up most of the space on the pack like you were buying a pack of smoking kills cigs ha.

A corpse right on the pack i think is taking it a little to far i mean come on now if such a scary statement as smoking kills doesnt stop a person from smoking im pretty sure a corpse wont.

I actually really like this idea and i think future generations will benefit from this.
 
highhooked said:
Yea i saw this when i was in england. SMOKING KILLS and it actually took up most of the space on the pack like you were buying a pack of smoking kills cigs ha.

A corpse right on the pack i think is taking it a little to far i mean come on now if such a scary statement as smoking kills doesnt stop a person from smoking im pretty sure a corpse wont.

I actually really like this idea and i think future generations will benefit from this.
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yeah i think the corpse is waay too far.
 
Yeah weve had them graphics on ours for quite a while now.... anyway soon all cigarette packaging here is going to be made blank with just the company name on it and nothing else apart from the graphic
 
justsomeguy said:
The first thing they should do with the increaded tax revenues is higher proper graphic designers for these ads.....
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Haha that's what I was thinkin like wtf did they make it a fuckin high school student contest and picked the best ones or somethin?


But either way, it might not stop people who already smoke from smoking, but I bet it'll help prevent quite a few people from smoking. Like kids, everybody knows when you're a kid you "want to smoke" or whatever, but seein that on a pack I think will freak a lot of young kids out.


Shit I'm one of the only people I know who don't smoke cigs and does a lot of H. Sucks tho cuz I smoke so many Dutchies I still be coughin up a lot of black shit and even blood once in a while.
 
If I smoked it would stop me... the dead body kinda makes it smack you in the face like. IF YOU SMOKE YOU'RE GOING TO DIE VERY SOON. And after Ryan Dunn died I don't want that :(
But good thing I don't smoke cigarettes.
 
I forgot cigarettes are bad, I need the government to remind me again...for real though, who is of age to smoke these days and thinks its healthy to smoke?
 
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