EVERY high school should have these pics as standard bulletine board material.
When I was about 12, our class went to the pathology lab and they had a pair of smoker's lungs in a jar that looked like they'd been left on the grill WAY to long . . . just totally black . . . . Mabey if I'd seen that first picture there Mike, I would'nt have still smoked another 7 years.
At the top where the "brand" goes, instead of one main brand, they should show like 100 smaller, all different brands.
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I quit 15 years ago... Don't even, miss it!
-------------------- Ed CJ Williams CJ Graffx Christiana,Pa. cjgraffx@comcast.net Just have'n fun.... Posts: 296 | From: Christiana,Pa. | Registered: May 1999
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The Brand is there Sheila as this is what will go on the actual cigarette packaging, the space for Brand is where the manufacturer gets to but their brand name.
-------------------- Mike O'Neill
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. - Arthur C. Clarke
I did a booklet when I was an Illustrator for the Air Force Reserve Headquarters Command with all the various illustrations and photos of the bad stuff.
A friend who only smoked for a short while had to have part of his tongue removed because of cancer they say was caused from smoking.
My two sons, who are long haul truck drivers both smoke. I'm always trying to convince them of the dangers, One of my boys quit for six years and started again.
Nowdays it isn't just the dangers healthwise, but the inconvenience the smokers deal with because of the no smoking laws.
A lady co-worker who had a lot of family problems told me she smoked because it was the only thing in her life she had control over. I told her she didn't have control, it was the cigarette that took her by the collar and dragged her outside in the cold and rain and said, smoke me.
That doesn't sound like she had control.
Its a dirty and stinking habit and I wish the best for anyone who tries to quit.
-------------------- Rove Gratz Gratz Signs 342 Walden Station Drive Macon, GA 31216 rovegratz@aol.com Home Page: http://rove-342.tripod.com Posts: 861 | From: Macon, GA 31216 | Registered: Jan 2004
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I e-mailed this to everyone in my addresses...
with the questions:
"Know anyone who smokes??
Know anyone who Does'nt smoke and you wanna let them know how glad you are they made that great choice?
Need motivation to QUIT smokin'?
This is a MUST-SEE . . ."
My X-husband's Mom, who died just before I met him with complications from M.S., was a dedicated smoker, and had already gotten the hole in her throat....and smoked her ciggarettes thru the hole . . . .
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"Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man, work like a dog" Posts: 5758 | From: "Sweet Home" Alabama | Registered: Mar 2003
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... doesn't matter, addicts won't stop buying cigs just because of some warning labels and ugly photos. They're ADDICTS, it's not THEIR brain making the decision at this point. It's all about the instant gratification, not the long-term effects. The tobacco companies are fully aware of this as well, which is why they'll agree to print that stuff on their packaging.
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Mike Pipes stickerpimp.com Lake Havasu, AZ mike@stickerpimp.com Posts: 8746 | From: Lake Havasu, AZ USA | Registered: Jun 2000
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They have been doing that here for a couple of years already. I'm not sure it has made much difference, those who are addicted are immune to it, those who are young like the "gross factor". If it does bother you, you can buy package sleeves to cover them. I give them credit for at least trying, though.
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Kelly Thorson Kel-T-Grafix 801 Main St. Holdfast, SK S0G 2H0 ktg@sasktel.net Posts: 5496 | From: Penzance, Saskatchewan | Registered: May 2002
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It's not my business to tell you what's healthy (or not) for You. Nor is it the Government's. It's also not my nor the Government's obligation (or shouldn't be) to cure you of any self inflicted illnesses.
And If you would realize a need to cease using any addictive and unhealthy thing then you have solved three quarters of the problem. The other Quarter is not using it!
Till August of 1986 I consumed 3 packs of Pall Mall Straights a day, (or at least burned a lot of 'em), started smoking when I was 13. I'm 63 now. My Mother was dying of Emphysema, in a nursing home. I visited her every day, and it didn't take long til I fugured out "I didn't need that habit!" Ran out of cigarettes one afternoon, had a carton at home, but decided to see how long I could go without one . . . haven't had one since!
I'm not a reformed smoker, don't give a damn whether someone smokes or not . . it's up to them. Just don't expect me to take care of you . . EVER!
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...Good for Europe. I wish we could have the same approach here but the cigarette cos. have a well funded lobby in Washington, and our political leaders would rather (more than) 450,000 Americans continue to die (every year) than cut off their cig bribes.
...Tobacco is the worst. My mother is currently being killed by this drug. It's obscene that this scourge is allowed to continue...and the cigarette company- drug pushers are even allowed to operate. While our government is waging it's supposeded "war on drugs", this **** is still legal. Go figure the logic.
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But just think Billy . . . if nicotine, or alchohol were ILLEGAL, the good ol' guv'ment would go around GIVING people needles and creating "safe-houses where they can use their illegal drug-of-choice AND giving them disability checks even BEFORE they get their drug-induced illnesses such as lung cancer, emphysema, heart-rot, liver-rot . . . . etc., etc., etc, . . .
OOP'S . . politics! Politics!
Ain't that ironic? . . . Politics should'nt be pushin' in EITHER direction on this (and so many other things) . . .yet, no matter which way you believe you want THE GOVERNMENT to act . . .they have a counter-action available . . . .'cept for those of us who wish they'd stay OUT of just about everything . . . . .but alas, "just about everything" is taxable for all parties . . .
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"Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man, work like a dog" Posts: 5758 | From: "Sweet Home" Alabama | Registered: Mar 2003
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Kelly, I'm not sure if in some backhand way that the main purpose of this packaging is not to protect the tobacco companies. If the product is packaged thusly no-one can ever claim that they didn't know that the product is dangerous, thus limiting the liability for the tobacco companies.
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. — Charles Mingus Posts: 6756 | From: Mendocino, CA. USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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This position of smokers conscience, is that an elected position or one that is assumed?
-------------------- Frank Magoo, Magoo's-Las Vegas; fmagoo@netzero.com "the only easy day was yesterday" Posts: 2365 | From: Las Vegas, Nv. | Registered: Jun 2003
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Maybe if smokers had to pay the total cost of tobacco, including the part the government subsidizes now, and cigarettes cost $27 a pack we might have less smokers.
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The same could be asked of the drinkn' crowd too, think how much that would save !!!
-------------------- Frank Magoo, Magoo's-Las Vegas; fmagoo@netzero.com "the only easy day was yesterday" Posts: 2365 | From: Las Vegas, Nv. | Registered: Jun 2003
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Cigerette's cost $5o.oo a carton in Canada and if thats not enough to make people quit there's something wrong with them.I quit 26 years ago. quit,quit quit.
-------------------- Randall Campbell Randy's Graphics, 420 Fairfield N. Hamilton Ontario Canada Posts: 2857 | From: Hamilton Ontario Canada | Registered: Jan 2002
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Well here's a smoker posting in this thread. I hate them, but am addicted. The pictures don't werk on me. Sure they're horrible and horrific, but they just make me want a cig. I quit for three years and like a fool thought I could just have one occasionally. Now I'm back to a solid pack a day and when I'm having computer troubles(just switched to XP) like recently, I've been smoking almost 2. I'm trying to work around to the point of quitting again, but I need a window with a little less stress. Maybe putting it in writing would help.
I WANT TO QUIT SMOKING.
Thanks for the post. I'll show the pics to my nephews who are just starting. Maybe they'll work on them.
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Really? Nobody knows what the horrible effects of smoking are by now? Everybody knows. We also have taxed these things to death and they still are being consumed.
Let's show the results of abortions, bombing of cities, etc. and other things the government doesn't want to go away.
None are going to stop. Excercise your own self will on the things you can control and don't expect any other solutions from the outside.
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