10 – Do you really want to carry THIS in your pocket everyday??
……………………Because if you continue to smoke tobacco cigarettes, it is very likely that you will be carrying around photos like this in your pocket in just a few short years:
Actual warning label currently in use in Australia
This is an actual warning label that is currently in use on cigarette packages in Australia.
The image above is certainly not one of the most graphic images that may show up in cigarette labelling in the future. In fact this is one of the most benign in my opinion. However, if you have the stomach for it, I urge you to go and check out the gallery at the Tobacco Labeling Resource Centre and see what types of imagery has been used in other parts of the world for cigarette labeling. There is some HORRIBLE imagery that could be coming to your pocket (and laying around in your house, car, pocketbook or office) in the future.
Changes to do with packaging of cigarettes are happening in the United States :
In the United States, the authority to force packaging changes was granted on June 22, 2009, when President Barack Obama, who has struggled with cigarette addiction since he was a teen, signed into law the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. The landmark legislation gives the U.S. Food and Drug Administration broad new authority to regulate the marketing of tobacco products.
Under the law, the FDA has two years to issue specifics about the new graphic warnings tobacco products will be required to carry. Tobacco companies then have 18 months to get them onto packages.
Currently, the United States has some of the weakest requirements for cigarette package warnings in the world, said David Hammond, an assistant professor in the department of health studies at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. The text-only warnings on packages have changed little since 1984.
So it is very likely that if you continue to smoke tobacco cigarettes, you will be carrying images like the one above (and possibly quite worse) in your pocket everywhere you go in just a few short years.
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