FDA to mandate "grisly" new warnimg labels

[decay]

i lost a friend to bladder cancer last year. mid-40s, heavy heavy smoker.

[OWC Jamie]

decay wrote:
i lost a friend to bladder cancer last year. mid-40s, heavy heavy smoker.

Portland Oregon needs to get that guy to pee in their open air reservoir.

[freeradical]

cbelt3 wrote:
Smokers ARE allowed to enlist.

For now anyway. There has been talk of banning smoking in the military which I find very odd.

I'm been an ex smoker for 28 years now. It is possible to quit. Very possible.

[OWC Jamie]

graylocks wrote:
[quote=RgrF]
I'd support any sort of scare tactic that would work. The tobacco interests are spending all they have to hook kids. We ought to be spending all we have to kick their collective asses and shut them down permanently.

i agree. and i think they should have mandated more graphic images. i find most of them tame. i hear other countries use much more shocking images. text is easy to ignore. even if a smoker claims not to notice or care about the images, subliminally they still have an impact.
and yet the number of Europeans who smoke are higher than in the states.
Text and pics aren't going to stop smoking any more than ugly tattoos will stop copulating

What really seems to be working here is enforcing the bans on smoking areas.
People still accept the stench over there because they don't enforce the bans that they also have.


It may seem like we have a lot less people smoking beacuse of public bans but that perception is working.

[graylocks]

and yet the number of Europeans who smoke are higher than in the states.
Text and pics aren't going to stop smoking any more than ugly tattoos will stop copulating

perhaps. but it's also possible those numbers would be even higher without the pics.

What really seems to be working here is enforcing the bans on smoking areas.
People still accept the stench over there because they don't enforce the bans that they also have.

so let's see what enforced bans and graphic pics can do. certainly can't hurt.

[OWC Jamie]

Well you won't see me letting anyone leave a pack of those cancer sticks laying around with those nasty graphics on them for just anyone to see !
:-)

[cbelt3]

freeradical wrote:
I'm been an ex smoker for 28 years now. It is possible to quit. Very possible.

Good for you. There is a small set of the population that have a common genetic marker (I disremember the research) that are VERY susceptible to addiction. My wife is one such person. We've tried damn near everything, and she's pretty much given up trying. I'm resigned to the fact that I will be a widower in the next 20 years.

[decay]

even though i hate smoking, i don't think it should be banned.

i'd like to see less chemicals in the cigs.
i'd like to see more education toward children and young adults.

my wife says it's worse walking on the streets of NYC now that indoor smoking is banned, because everyone's outside puffing away, and she has to walk through it. nasty.

i'd also like to see legalization & taxation of marijuana, even though i don't care to smoke it.

[freeradical]

We never learn. We tried to ban alcohol, and it didn't work. The war on drugs has been a monumental success. Let's declare war on tobacco.

[Dennis S]

"the free speech of the tobacco companies"

Give me a break.