Shocking Images on Cigratte Packs to Make 'em QUIT !!

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Graphic Images Appear on Cigarette Packets to Shock Smokers into Quitting !

Shocking pictures of throat cancer and rotting teeth are to appear on cigarette packets from today to illustrate the health risks of smoking.

Among the other images smokers will see are rotting lungs, a corpse in a morgue and a body cut open during surgery.

The photos will appear on the back of packets accompanied by a written health warning.

The images replace the previous warnings introduced in January 2003, although the messages 'Smoking kills' and 'Smoking seriously harms you and others around you' will continue to appear on the front of packets.

New figures showed written warnings had motivated more than 90,000 smokers to call the NHS Smoking Helpline, the Department of Health said.

However, smoking is still the biggest killer in England where it causes the premature death of more than 87,000 people each year.

The photos are expected to be more effective than text, and research suggested that warnings should be changed periodically to maintain their effectiveness, the DoH said.

The smokers' lobby group Forest criticised the new warnings as 'unnecessarily intrusive' and 'gratuitously offensive'.

Forest director Simon Clark said: 'We support measures that educate people about the health risks of smoking, but these pictures are designed not just to educate but to shock and coerce people to give up a legal product.

They are unnecessarily intrusive, gratuitously offensive, and yet another example of smokers being singled out for special attention.'

However, Action on Smoking and Health (Ash) director Deborah Arnott said: 'The stark images in the picture warnings on tobacco products are a call to action to smokers to quit, and the evidence is that they work.

'The evidence also shows that picture warnings work better on plain packs, so we are urging the Government to also implement legislation to require the removal of pack b*****ng to maximise the impact of the these images.'

Canada was the first country to introduce picture warnings in 2001.

Research a year later found 31 per cent of ex-smokers said the images had motivated them to quit the habit while 27 per cent said they had helped them to remain non-smokers, according to the DoH.

Graphic images are now used on tobacco products sold in Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, New Zealand, Singapore, Venezuela, Thailand and Uruguay.

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xXx

Good that I dont Smoke !!!

I wished Smoking was prohibited in public places

Bluffmaster

^It is prohibited in public places. Atleast, Legally.

Btw... those images don't help. They may scare off a curious beginner but they have no effect on regular smokers.

Kimi

exactly bluffy..which side are you in ???

Agnel

Smokers should smoke in private. The ones who smoke in public rarely have courtesy

patch01

Originally Posted by xXx

Good that I dont Smoke !!!

I wished Smoking was prohibited in public places

In Australia, the government has banned smoking in all public venues and is now working, (in true socialist fashion), to ban smoking in private vehicles...........

I've also personally witnessed, smokers comparing pictures on their respective cigarette packets as though they were baseball cards, so I'm not entirely certain that the process is working in the manner the government intended....

Meanwhile, the government is certainly reaping a bounty in terms of tariffs imposed on smoking...

@bluffy - you're absolutely right......

Bluffmaster

Its the same situation here in the capital Patchie. Here also the Government has banned smoking in private vehicles as long as those vehicles are on a public place. But the thing is nobody really cares. I have seen cops openly smoking in public places. But then New Delhi is a big city, its hard to implement a Ban here. The only places where the Ban has been effective are the bars/clubs/discos which really suck because drinks without a cigarette doesn't go too well.

patch01

^^ I think that'll be the same thing occur here, coppers aren't going to be overly conshy in trying to stop people smoking in their own cars, especially since we have so few coppers on frontline service already, (as you guys would no doubt be aware)

Bluffmaster

But I do feel that a Ban on smoking in private vehicles is uncalled for. Who is the person harming if he is enjoying a smoke in his own car out in the open?

patch01

Originally Posted by Bluffmaster

But I do feel that a Ban on smoking in private vehicles is uncalled for. Who is the person harming if he is enjoying a smoke in his own car out in the open?

What they were aiming at was to stop parents harming their children by smoking in their presence...... Taken to extremes, (as people often do), parents could be sued/lose custody of their children by way of negligently hazarding a childs' health through secondary exposure to carcinogens..