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Topics => General Board => Topic started by: LadyVirginia on June 21, 2011, 10:05:37 AM

Title: FDA Issues Graphic Cigarette Labels
Post by: LadyVirginia on June 21, 2011, 10:05:37 AM
Will arrive in stores in about 15 months.

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(Fox News) RICHMOND, Va. -- In the most significant change to U.S. cigarette packs in 25 years, the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday released nine new warning labels that depict in graphic detail the negative health effects of tobacco use.

Among the images to appear on cigarette packs are rotting and diseased teeth and gums and a man with a tracheotomy smoking.

Also included among the labels are: the corpse of a smoker, diseased lungs, and a mother holding her baby with smoke swirling around them. They include phrases like "Smoking can kill you" and "Cigarettes cause cancer" and feature graphic images to convey the dangers of tobacco, which is responsible for about 443,000 deaths in the U.S. a year.

Each label includes a national quit smoking hotline number.


link (http://www.wowo.com/ArticleDisplay/tabid/74/ArticleId/5419/FDA-Issues-Graphic-Cigarette-Labels.aspx)

Title: Re: FDA Issues Graphic Cigarette Labels
Post by: Glock32 on June 21, 2011, 10:24:46 AM
They're so FOS. Without the revenue from cigarette taxes they wouldn't know what to do. Rush makes this point often, we have a bureaucracy that tries to shame/scare/coerce people into living the way our betters want, then when people start doing so the same bureaucrats whine about lost revenue. I think the state of Illinois recently rescinded some smoking ban they had enacted because they lost so much revenue.

Warnings have been on tobacco products since the 60s. Everyone knows the risks. They're just being thoroughly obnoxious about it now (while still holding their hands out for the tax revenue).
Title: Re: FDA Issues Graphic Cigarette Labels
Post by: Libertas on June 21, 2011, 11:42:43 AM
Now Pro Life groups can sue the government for not treating abortion warnings with the same courtesy!  I mean, what kills a life faster?  A kid smoking a Pall Mall or a kid getting ripped apart as he/she is forcibly removed from the womb?  I think videos of what the fetus experience should be mandatory viewing for anybody considering an abortion!

Lets see that graphic warning hypocrite bastards!

 ::mooning::
Title: Re: FDA Issues Graphic Cigarette Labels
Post by: LadyVirginia on June 21, 2011, 11:49:10 AM
Now Pro Life groups can sue the government for not treating abortion warnings with the same courtesy!  I mean, what kills a life faster?  A kid smoking a Pall Mall or a kid getting ripped apart as he/she is forcibly removed from the womb?  I think videos of what the fetus experience should be mandatory viewing for anybody considering an abortion!

Lets see that graphic warning hypocrite bastards!

 ::mooning::

 ::thumbsup::
Title: Re: FDA Issues Graphic Cigarette Labels
Post by: AlanS on June 21, 2011, 07:45:48 PM
Now Pro Life groups can sue the government for not treating abortion warnings with the same courtesy!  I mean, what kills a life faster?  A kid smoking a Pall Mall or a kid getting ripped apart as he/she is forcibly removed from the womb?  I think videos of what the fetus experience should be mandatory viewing for anybody considering an abortion!

Lets see that graphic warning hypocrite bastards!

 ::mooning::

 ::beertoast::
Title: Re: FDA Issues Graphic Cigarette Labels
Post by: rickl on June 21, 2011, 07:51:21 PM
Now Pro Life groups can sue the government for not treating abortion warnings with the same courtesy!  I mean, what kills a life faster?  A kid smoking a Pall Mall or a kid getting ripped apart as he/she is forcibly removed from the womb?  I think videos of what the fetus experience should be mandatory viewing for anybody considering an abortion!

Lets see that graphic warning hypocrite bastards!

 ::mooning::

Fair is fair.
Title: Re: FDA Issues Graphic Cigarette Labels
Post by: John Florida on June 21, 2011, 08:03:45 PM
One is a nono the other is privacy why can't you guys get that?? ::angry::
Title: Re: FDA Issues Graphic Cigarette Labels
Post by: Sectionhand on June 22, 2011, 06:07:06 AM

Warnings have been on tobacco products since the 60s. Everyone knows the risks. They're just being thoroughly obnoxious about it now (while still holding their hands out for the tax revenue).

Adult smokers will just ignore them and the kids they're trying to scare will laugh at them .  ::mooning::
Title: Re: FDA Issues Graphic Cigarette Labels
Post by: Libertas on June 22, 2011, 07:48:56 AM
One is a nono the other is privacy why can't you guys get that?? ::angry::

Which is which?   ::whatgives::   ::evil::

What people put in their body, smoke or DNA, is a privacy issue, no?   ::stirpot::

 ;)
Title: Re: FDA Issues Graphic Cigarette Labels
Post by: Libertas on June 22, 2011, 07:49:13 AM

Warnings have been on tobacco products since the 60s. Everyone knows the risks. They're just being thoroughly obnoxious about it now (while still holding their hands out for the tax revenue).

Adult smokers will just ignore them and the kids they're trying to scare will laugh at them .  ::mooning::

Yup.
Title: Re: FDA Issues Graphic Cigarette Labels
Post by: LadyVirginia on June 22, 2011, 09:51:45 AM

Warnings have been on tobacco products since the 60s. Everyone knows the risks. They're just being thoroughly obnoxious about it now (while still holding their hands out for the tax revenue).

Adult smokers will just ignore them and the kids they're trying to scare will laugh at them .  ::mooning::

Yup.

Look for the youtube video! Or the avatars.
Title: Re: FDA Issues Graphic Cigarette Labels
Post by: Thresherman on June 22, 2011, 06:37:10 PM
Another government mandated futile gesture that will make Obastard's Stimulus Plan look wildly successful by comparision.
Title: Re: FDA Issues Graphic Cigarette Labels
Post by: rickl on June 23, 2011, 08:54:33 AM
Comment seen at AoSHQ:

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46 Car accident photos at the pump?  Clogged artery pictures next to meat?  You're just playing into liberal hands.  Your "slippery slope" examples are just further things liberals would like.  Take the fight to them.

Throw photos of slain birds into every household that receives electricity via wind power.  Pictures of the discarded remains of fetuses at the entrance to every Planned Parenthood clinic.
Posted by: Tom In Korea at June 23, 2011 08:27 AM
Title: Re: FDA Issues Graphic Cigarette Labels
Post by: John Florida on June 23, 2011, 02:00:26 PM
Why the eff doesn't he go golfing and leave people that are trying to make a living the hell alone.
Title: Re: FDA Issues Graphic Cigarette Labels
Post by: Libertas on June 23, 2011, 02:24:51 PM
Why the eff doesn't he go golfing and leave people that are trying to make a living the hell alone.

Becasue if it works or worse yet if people enjoy it and profit from offering it, it must be punished or destroyed outright...it's the proglodyte way!

 :P

 ::cussing::
Title: Re: FDA Issues Graphic Cigarette Labels
Post by: John Florida on June 23, 2011, 03:08:12 PM
Why the eff doesn't he go golfing and leave people that are trying to make a living the hell alone.

Becasue if it works or worse yet if people enjoy it and profit from offering it, it must be punished or destroyed outright...it's the proglodyte way!

 :P

 ::cussing::

 It's not his fault that he's a smoker so do this?