Is it just me or would it have been a better strategy to allow the skull-and-bones? People who are addicted would still buy cigarettes, and people who smoke "to be cool" would probably be attracted even more by the symbol, which is fairly trendy even in non-Goth circles.
shareIt would be completely ineffective, the pictures they have in canada have had minimal impact
shareThey did something like this in real life? Fill me in...
shareIts already being done here in Australia, has for quite some time. We get more than skull and cross bones logos though, we have pictures of:
-Gangrene foot
-Picture showing normal lung, then emphysema lung
-Close up of an eye teling us we'll go blind
-Pictures of babies and children saying our smoke harms them, even in the womb
Theres more, but I can't think what other images I've had. Trying to collect the whole set.
I was travelling to a few of the countries in south east Asia and i saw that the graphic packaging ( lungs and gangrene etc ) have been implemented for quite some time.
And what that's led to is ...that either people have jut learned to ignore the messaging or they have gone in for cigarette cases or rubber packaging which can be just pulled over a pack once you buy it.
So i guess what is the bottom-line is that where there is a will there is always a way. Smoke on....
Each thing I do, I rush through, so I can do something else.
Here are some images that are on the cigarette packages here in Canada...but no one really stopped smoking because of it....
http://images.teamsugar.com/files/users/1/12981/24_2007/cigarette.jpg
Sorry, I can't figure out how to make it a live link, you have to cut and paste it...
We get them in New Zealand too. Gangreine, blindness, heart disease, lung cancer, all the usuals, some of them are pretty graphic too, and they take up the whole backside of the pack as well as the top of the front.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/images/705234.jpg
Wow, just searching the net for cigarette warning images and malaysia goes pretty hard, check this out as well...
http://www.smoke-free.ca/warnings/Malaysia-%20warnings.htm
It's funny though, becauase the only people who seem to react to them are nonsmokers.
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Holy crap, the miscarriage is tough. We here in Austria only have big messages on the packages like "Smoking kills" or "Smoking causes impotence".
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But with this mentality alcohol bottles should have it too. Let's admnit it, alcohol is basicly weak posion that blockes parts of your brain, that's why you feel good from it.
Ever heard of anti-cigarettes? Maybe not, I don't know if that's even a word, but it suits the following brands:
http://www.cigarettespedia.com/index.php/Image:Cancer_ks_20_s_usa.jpg
http://www.cigarettespedia.com/images/f/fc/Death_lights_ks_20_h_england.jpg (the extremey unnecessary "warning sign" means "Very dangerous to your health")
Also, I've heard cigarette cases are more popular than ever, because people don't want their cigarette packages to tell them that they're gonna die.
the pictures are just disgusting. it would piss me off even more if the gov't decided to add some nasty ass image on a pack of ciggerettes they legally allow me to buy.
why are they trying to make me look like an *beep* "oh hey chick, want a ciggerette from this nasty ass box with a picture on it?"
Huh... Wow. I thought they were exaggerating for comic effect! Actually, they recently started the most disgusting campaign on tv here in America, where they start squeezing gunk out of the organs of dead smokers... during prime time! I remember because I was eating dinner at the time when I first saw it. And then couldn't finish because it was all I could do not to throw up.
share'why are they trying to make me look like an *beep* "oh hey chick, want a ciggerette from this nasty ass box with a picture on it?" '
Because they are trying to get you, and everyone, to not want to smoke at all.
'why are they trying to make me look like an *beep* "oh hey chick, want a ciggerette from this nasty ass box with a picture on it?" '
Because they are trying to get you, and everyone, to not want to smoke at all.
the pictures on the packages are nothing compared to the "educational" videos they show little kids in school. I remember them showing us dramatic videos of people spitting up tar and all kinds of gross stuff. It's pretty traumatizing when you're in elementary school.
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