Warning labels in America

[Wicky]

Did anyone see the news of graphic "death" labels coming soon to a cigarette pack near you?

[Colt45]

I read the headline, but not the article - definite or up for consideration?

[Wicky]

I'm sorry. I don';t know how to get the link here.

[Jesuscookies]

I read the headline, but not the article - definite or up for consideration?

Looking pretty certain if the FDA has it's way. The cigarette manufactors have filed suit, but I don't see them having a leg to stand on. The photos will be the equivalent of what is seen on the Australian cigar boxes.

[mkz]

I'm sorry. I don';t know how to get the link here.

Is this the one? http://health.msn.com/health-topics/cancer...entid=100266750

[First Lady]

Welcome to the Club so you too can collect the whole range of them ... what idiots as if it stops anyone smoking..

[Wicky]

Is this the one? http://health.msn.com/health-topics/cancer...entid=100266750

The one i found showed all the proposed labels.

Much worse than the Aussie ones.

If you can believe that!

[Wicky]

Welcome to the Club so you too can collect the whole range of them ... what idiots as if it stops anyone smoking..

The ones I saw take it to a new level! Unbelievable!

[Wicky]

Link:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/10/g...15.html#s178999

With much help I found it.

I especially like the cartoons and the phony FX.

Remember,next time you smoke,be sure to blow the smoke directly into your babys face!

[Fuzz]

Woohoo! FDA trading cards!! This is gonna be better than Pokemon! Gotta get 'em all!!

I just hope they don't come with the crappy chewing gum that my rugby or cricket trading cards came with. Those sticks could cut your gums up mighty fierce...

[Aficionado]

Perhaps they bought a cigar in Czar...

[cigcars]

*Yeah, I saw the pic of the guy dying of cancer on one of the new cigarette boxes on "The View." It was being debated/disputed about whatever agency within the cigarette company is fawning "concern for citizens" or something to that effect. It was then suggested that if they really want to prove "citizen concern" they'd stop selling them. I've perused the situations of persons worldwide who've been avid cigarette smokers, as well as pipe smokers, and us (with our beloved) cigar smokers. It would SEEM the only real complaint, if not charges, that can be brought against the CURRENT cigarette industry is the deliberate infusion of highly addictive and dangerous chemical additives to increase sales. The cigarettes & so on that have just NATURAL Virginia burley and Turkish latakia tobaccos can't be faulted for producing smokers' desired end. I've "played" with cigarettes and that is too rough and harsh a tobacco for ME to handle. For those other poor, yet tough, persons that can handle 'em - he-e-e-y

[CanuckSARTech]

Here's the link to the PDF slideshow of all the proposed labels on the FDA webpage. It may take your webbrowser a bit to load it, as the full thing (72 pages/slides, or something like that) is around 10 MB or so...

http://www.fda.gov/downloads/TobaccoProduc...s/UCM232425.pdf

Crock of crap. This won't help anything or anyone. U.S. advertising for cigarettes being what it is, this is crap. Just the government's way of saying it's wrong, while discreetly raking in billions of dollars of taxes on tobacco products (same idea here in Canada, but advertising isn't allowed anymore). The hypocracy is pathetic.

[Colt45]

Next thing you know, you won't be able to buy your child a happy meal with a toy inside.

Oh...... never mind.

[samb]

Next thing you know, you won't be able to buy your child a happy meal with a toy inside.

Oh...... never mind.

Are there no more happy meal toys?!?

I saw the article, I figured it was only a matter of time. The FDA does not need to have its cancerous grasp on tobacco!