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FDA to mandate "grisly" new warnimg labels - Black - 06-22-2011
on cigarettes.
http://apnews.myway.com//article/20110622/D9O0K98G0.html
(I wonder how they came up with the number of how many would quit the first year . . . computer simulations?)
Re: FDA to mandate "grisly" new warnimg labels - freeradical - 06-22-2011
Black wrote:
(I wonder how they came up with the number of how many would quit the first year . . . computer simulations?)
WAG --- AKA --- wild a$$ guess
Re: FDA to mandate "grisly" new warnimg labels - M>B> - 06-22-2011
Re: FDA to mandate "grisly" new warnimg labels - decocritter - 06-22-2011
Why don't they cut the chemicals gradually and then quit manufacturing the damn things as we know them?
Re: FDA to mandate "grisly" new warnimg labels - Lux Interior - 06-22-2011
A "grizzly" warning:
STOP SMOKING!
Re: FDA to mandate "grisly" new warnimg labels - WHiiP - 06-22-2011
Get a tooth brush, dude.
Re: FDA to mandate "grisly" new warnimg labels - RgrF - 06-22-2011
It's 40-years past time they took an objective approach.
Tobacco is only legal because we allow it to be, by that standard "pot" ought to be as well. It doesn't kill people, just brain cells. Why do we still provide tax subsidies to the tobacco industry?
My wife is a smoker and I hate it (mostly because I introduced her to it when we were in our teens). She's being "kidnapped" this AM to go for a physical. Daughter and I are in cahoots, so the kid is the kidnapper, while my hands are clean.
She's old and afraid and would rather just not know, anyone in your life like that?
Re: FDA to mandate "grisly" new warnimg labels - Ombligo - 06-22-2011
I don't smoke, never have and think it is a fairly disgusting habit. However I also don't see it as any of my business and think the government needs to step back.
I can see regulating the advertising and the age restrictions - even the simple written warning that has been on the packages for decades. But this latest effort is going to far IMHO. It could be argued that the government is infringing on the free speech of the tobacco companies by dictating how their packages will look.
If the government is serious about stopping cigarette use then drop the subsidies growers get and ban the sale of it. They could even go further and put limitations on tax money going for medical treatment (similar to the restrictions on abortion funding). Maybe legislate that all stop smoking medicines and medically recognized treatments related to smoking are free and funded by the tobacco companies.
But enough of the halfway measures - either outlaw it or stop the nanny state treatment. People need to take responsibility for their own decisions. It is time to either cut bait or get out of fish house.
Re: FDA to mandate "grisly" new warnimg labels - Mac1337 - 06-22-2011
Why stop at cigarette packaging? What should a Big Mac wrapper look like?
Re: FDA to mandate "grisly" new warnimg labels - cbelt3 - 06-22-2011
RgF... I'm TOTALLY with you on that. And in the same situation. Mrs. cbelt3 has been able to quit four times (four pregnancies). And then went right back on.... something about the hormones, I think. She goes to the doctor, her lungs are, fortunately, clear. but after having her father live with us the last three years of his life... which was ended with smoking-caused emphysema.. she knows it will kill her (not may.. WILL), but she can't quit.
Cigarettes, for some people, are incredible addictive.
Stop the BS. Outlaw it altogether.