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Author:  Montalo [ Wed Jun 22, 2011 9:09 pm ]
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Washington (CNN) -- Nine new graphic cigarette warning labels showing cancerous lesions and other impacts of smoking were unveiled Tuesday by the Food and Drug Administration, part of the agency's sweeping new powers to regulate tobacco and tobacco products.

"With these warnings, every person who picks up a pack of cigarettes is going to know exactly what risk they're taking," Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told reporters.

Sebelius called smoking and other tobacco use the "number one cause of preventable death" in America, claiming more than 440,000 lives a year.

Cigarette packages will now carry one vivid color image and one of these warnings about the consequences of smoking: "Cigarettes are addictive"; "Tobacco smoke can harm your children"; "Cigarettes cause fatal lung disease"; "Cigarettes cause cancer"; "Cigarettes cause strokes and heart disease"; "Smoking during pregnancy can harm your baby"; "Smoking can kill you"; "Tobacco smoke causes fatal lung disease in nonsmokers"; and "Quitting smoking now greatly reduces serious risks to your health."

The warnings, which must be in place by September 2012, will cover the upper portion of the pack both front and back. At least 50% of the package will have to be covered.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/06/21/cigarette.labels/
Author:  Rutledge222 [ Wed Jun 22, 2011 9:14 pm ]
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Wrong section to put it in there buddy lol.
Author:  Montalo [ Wed Jun 22, 2011 9:14 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: FDA reveals bigger graphic warning labels for cigarette pack
wow i fucked up on this one


please move it :)
Author:  backthatSASSup [ Wed Jun 22, 2011 9:24 pm ]
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Welcome to Canada 2002.
Author:  ironyisadeadscene [ Wed Jun 22, 2011 9:37 pm ]
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samsonite..... you were way off!
Author:  Hammygoodness [ Thu Jun 23, 2011 1:01 pm ]
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Why don't they just force the cigarettes to be laced with arsenic and be done with it? Seriously, how much more rediculous can this get?

Ham
Author:  ironyisadeadscene [ Thu Jun 23, 2011 1:09 pm ]
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can this be moved back to sabres hockey? i just like it better there.
Author:  NYIntensity [ Fri Jun 24, 2011 10:36 am ]
Post subject:  Re: FDA reveals bigger graphic warning labels for cigarette pack
Why don't they put pictures of Ryan Dunn's wrecked car on alcohol?
Author:  Crosscheck [ Fri Jun 24, 2011 11:41 am ]
Post subject:  Re: FDA reveals bigger graphic warning labels for cigarette pack
I smoked for 14 years and quit on my own terms.
These warnings would have not have stopped me.

The best approach (and one that's been taken) is to make a societal change so they're no longer cool. You no longer see smoking on TV and in the movies for example.
Stopping a person once they start is infinitely harder than stopping them from starting in the first place.

To sum up: I'm against people starting to smoke.
I have nothing against people who do.
This is a silly measure because if you're willing to do that to your body, you're probably ok with the consequences (which aren't exactly a mystery).
Author:  CriminallyVu1gar [ Fri Jun 24, 2011 1:50 pm ]
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I don't see the big deal. My mom smoked while she was pregnant with me, and I turned out just tacos.
Author:  Skyline_BNR34 [ Tue Jun 28, 2011 8:57 am ]
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CriminallyVu1gar wrote:
I don't see the big deal. My mom smoked while she was pregnant with me, and I turned out just tacos.

That can be debated. :p
Author:  Displaced Fan [ Tue Jun 28, 2011 12:00 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: FDA reveals bigger graphic warning labels for cigarette pack
Crosscheck wrote:
I smoked for 14 years and quit on my own terms.
These warnings would have not have stopped me.

The best approach (and one that's been taken) is to make a societal change so they're no longer cool. You no longer see smoking on TV and in the movies for example.
Stopping a person once they start is infinitely harder than stopping them from starting in the first place.

To sum up: I'm against people starting to smoke.
I have nothing against people who do.
This is a silly measure because if you're willing to do that to your body, you're probably ok with the consequences (which aren't exactly a mystery).

Agreed. When I was in Germany the packs were pretty much ALL warning. :lol: They flat out said "Smoking Causes Death" and some even had a skull and cross bones on them. Far from changing my smoking habits, I just felt like I was a card carrying pirate. We'd sit and joke about the warning while we were smoking, making up alternative warnings we thought would be better.
Author:  Skyline_BNR34 [ Wed Jun 29, 2011 7:10 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: FDA reveals bigger graphic warning labels for cigarette pack
Displaced Fan wrote:
Crosscheck wrote:
I smoked for 14 years and quit on my own terms.
These warnings would have not have stopped me.

The best approach (and one that's been taken) is to make a societal change so they're no longer cool. You no longer see smoking on TV and in the movies for example.
Stopping a person once they start is infinitely harder than stopping them from starting in the first place.

To sum up: I'm against people starting to smoke.
I have nothing against people who do.
This is a silly measure because if you're willing to do that to your body, you're probably ok with the consequences (which aren't exactly a mystery).

Agreed. When I was in Germany the packs were pretty much ALL warning. :lol: They flat out said "Smoking Causes Death" and some even had a skull and cross bones on them. Far from changing my smoking habits, I just felt like I was a card carrying pirate. We'd sit and joke about the warning while we were smoking, making up alternative warnings we thought would be better.

Same thing in the Bahamas. I took pictures of the packs because of it.
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