Graphic Images for Cigarette Packs Revealed.

Just signed online and ran across this article about the new cigarette warning labels. Have you had a chance to check it out?

http://beta.news.yahoo.com/fda-unveils-graphic-images-cigarette-packs-130408193.html

Do you think this will really encourage smokers to stop smoking or do you think they're FDA is wasting their time? I know quite a few people who have tried to stop, but they can't. It doesn't matter if their children beg them to, they just can't kick it. I know it breaks their hearts, but it's an addiction and not as easy for some people. I can't say that I know for experience, but just from the people I know who are smokers, they have tried pills, patches, hypnosis, and none seem to work. Who knows. Maybe this will be what it takes.

The govt tells people they need to stop smoking, but hope they don't because the way we tax cigarettes nearly funds the federal and state governments.

As a smoker, I think its a waste of money and time. Unless someone wants to quit, these pictures wont help....because every smoker knows the risks of smoking and most I am sure have seen pics similar to this and they are still smoking.

Pictures like this have been in the UK for quite a while. It didn't make any difference to me at all.

Having smoked for 20 some-odd years, my experience was that I had to quit dozens of times before I finally set them down for good. As far as I'm concerned, every little bit helps. If these ads can push someone to just try to quit, it might get them just a few steps closer to kicking tobacco permanently. Given the health risks posed by cigarette smoking (my mother died of complications from lung cancer), I'm all for it.

People who are addicted are not going to just drop the digusting habit. I hope though it will stop young kids from thinking its cool and start lighting up.
I quit 11 years ago and I enjoy not smelling bad and the nasty taste in my mouth.

Good for you! I am always impressed with anyone who kicks a hard-to-break habit, cause I know it must be a tough thing to do.

I don't think they'll work, tabacco co. Are going go have to pay more for packaging and so the consumer will pay more. In that sense it may deter some maybe. If i were a smoker I would just get a cigarette case like the ones in classic movies when smoking was still cool and I would toss the nasty looking carton.

They already do this in canada where cigarettes are a lor more expensive and plenty of canadians still smoke.

I'm a smoker and I could care less what the package looked like. What really makes me mad is how the government, media, whoever it is, is picking on smokers. What about alcoholics? Are they going to start putting pictures of diseased livers, people puking, or other drunken events of the like on the bottles? What about people who abuse household products? Are they going to begin putting photos of obese people on fast food wrappers? Where will it stop? It's no wonder other countries think we're so damned stupid, because our own government finds it necessary to put PICTURES on cigarette packs!!! It's not a f*cking pop-up book. We know what the risks are.

This won't help much. I agree with the guy at the end of the video who suggested that the government raise the taxes on cigarettes to worldwide levels or to the level they were taxed in the 1950's. This would bring in billions in tax revenues & save the same in health care costs when people who can't afford it quit. That would be MUCH smarter and more effective!

I'm a smoker and I could care less what the package looked like. What really makes me mad is how the government, media, whoever it is, is picking on smokers. What about alcoholics? Are they going to start putting pictures of diseased livers, people puking, or other drunken events of the like on the bottles? What about people who abuse household products? Are they going to begin putting photos of obese people on fast food wrappers? Where will it stop? It's no wonder other countries think we're so damned stupid, because our own government finds it necessary to put PICTURES on cigarette packs!!! It's not a f*cking pop-up book. We know what the risks are.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

What really makes me mad is how the government, media, whoever it is, is picking on smokers.

To be fair smoking is the one of what you mentioned that if ONE person in the room is doing it affects everyone else in the room, a drinker gets all the alcohol in their cup... a non-smoker can't help but breathe the toxic fumes a smoker is bringing into the area. And it's a joke, my college had the "NO-smoking" buffer 50 feet from their door, but as evidenced by leaves every fall the "smoking" section was in just the right spot for the wind to blow it into the main doors to the building. Oh yeah and the bus let us off right into the smoking section :P

I don't know. I remember as a kid when they would bring in the emphysema-ridden lungs in the big glass case and make us look at them and explain that this was what smoking did to your lungs. I still smoked for several years.

People aren't really going to look at them. I never really looked at my packs when they didn't have them, I would only be encouraged further not to look at it or read their warnings.

As for kids ... I don't think they're going to care, mostly. They're told how awful smoking is from day one, shown all sorts of images and they still smoke. Cost is the only thing to make it even slightly prohibitive, and personally I don't think that's fair to adults who should have the choice.

I think the only way to make people stop smoking is to hike the price. The kids won't be able to afford it. It seem to be part of the solution from what I have seen here in Canada.

Prices got raised before. That's why there's no so many cigarettes sold from the indian reserves now. They're sold in huge amounts in Ontario, I'm sure in Quebec too. People can buy indian cigarettes, Approx $20 for a carton. That's 20 smokes for $2.
In Ontario we have an "Ontario smoke free act".
Vendors aren't allowed to sell to anybody under 19, and check ID if they are under 25.
They also have to cover up their smokes behind the counter, and not be in view.

It just seems like a bunch of government employees trying to justify their jobs -- let's come up with some gross pics to put on cigarette boxes.

I used to smoke & knew the risks and effects but didn't care. Not only that, who sits there staring at their pack of smokes? I don't think smokers care less what's on the pack.