Honestly, who doesn't already know the health problems associated with smoking cigarettes?

Even that one guy who has been sitting in a cave on Mars, blindfolded, with his fingers in his ears has heard that cigarettes will kill you.

Calling them 'Deathsticks' would probably only increase sales.

I'd laugh if the manufacturers had spaced the letters in the warnings so that when placed upside down, the background appears to spell "smoking is fun".

Anti-tobacco guy: "Wait kid, these things will give you CANCER and LUNG DISEASE"
Kid: "but they'll make me look cool, right?"
ATG: "Well, yeah, but.."
"Kid: "3 packs of Marlboro Black Lungz please"

I wonder how a brand named "Cancer Sticks" or "Coffin Nails" would sell, and would any warning be needed?

Stores are encouraged to display "images of gangrenous limbs & cancerous mouths", yet get in trouble if a bare breast is visible on their magazine racks.

Once they find out that rotting flesh gives me a woody I'm sure they'll hide that too.

"You could put them in a black pack with a skull and crossbones on the front and call them Tumors and smokers would be lining up around the block for them. I hear you get cancers as soon as you light up Mmm Mmm Mmm"

/From the days when Dennis Leary was funny
//Of course, how could you not be funny when you steal your act from Bill Hicks.

totalsecurity
I wonder how a brand named "Cancer Sticks" or "Coffin Nails" would sell, and would any warning be needed?

In the mid 90s there was a brief period of something akin to microbrews with tobacco. Lots of specialty blends, and all other kinds of gimicks with smaller local oriented blends.

There was a brand out then called something like "Death". It came in a black pack, with a big ass skull and crossbones on it.

They were actually pretty good smokes. Haven't seen them in a long time.

LineNoise: There was a brand out then called something like "Death". It came in a black pack, with a big ass skull and crossbones on it.

Cigs are unhealthy?

Why didn't someone SAY something?

Megain

Sad as it is to admit it, but I'd want to buy those cigarettes...

/non-smoker

The Canadians kick our asses when it comes to cigarette warning labels.

ten_of_spades: I'd laugh if the manufacturers had spaced the letters in the warnings so that when placed upside down, the background appears to spell "smoking is fun".

Ever read Thank you for Smoking? I never saw the movie version, but in the book the tobacco companies started the anti-smoking slogan, "Everything your parents taught you about smoking is right," with an emphasis on the last three words.

In the book they also modeled the skull and crossbones after Mr. Rogers so that it would look subliminally friendly. Good satire.

So they don't want to see the potential results of their actions. Hooray.

Honestly, for all my deep hatred of tobacco, I'd lay off the vitriol a bit if they didn't smell worse than rotting feces. Seriously, what part of the rat poison and cyanide is making that stench?

I smoked for 15 years, quit a little over 2 years ago.
Not that has anything to do with this. So when are they going to put a picture of some fat guy jerking it on the cover of Playboy saying "this is what porn does to you"?

Health warnings?

This makes me want a smoke. BRB

who the hell doesn't know that ciggerettes can kill. But taste great!

Oh man, I want one of those packs! Does anyone know how I can get some Australian cigarettes into the US?

when my time comes I will have my gangrenous foot cut off and use it as an ashtray.

These men are MURDERERS, plain and simple...

(Philip Morris Tobacco Execs in case you didn't know)
These BASTARDS are taking advantage of young people at one of the most vunerable times of their lives by getting them hooked on a product that KILLS to make their goddam MONEY...

Yes, damn right I'm bitter...saw three relatives die of CANCER...the bastards have hooked my son, too.

Scum of the earth.

There is another brand of smoke called "Black Death" that has a nice skull on it. Costs an arm and a leg to get 'em though.

This is a bloody disgrace. We can let children see gangrenous limbs and cancerous mouths, but go ballistic if they could have seen someone's breast?

Sweet Zombie Jesus.

Those Death cigarettes are absolutely horrible. It's like the tobacco that can't be used for proper cigarettes are rolled into one disgusting stick and put in a cool box. I think that's what they are, the 'usable' but trash leftover tobacco, then they make the box overkill and scary. I think it's to help with lawsuits, so the next time some smoker wants to get rich, the company can bust out the Death cigarettes and show how obviously they warn the consumer. That being said, the freaky labels on Canadian smokes are kick-ass. Lung disease, black teeth, all kinds of rotten goodness. The problem is that most people don't learn from abstract warnings about what could happen, they just see things as they are at the time. Most of the high school kids and junior high kids in Winnipeg would collect the images and trade them for the rarer ones. I'll trade you two impotency pictures for a brain hemmorage.

ok...so i wasn't the only one that knew about black death smokes. guess i should have refreshed the comments page before posting that.

/apologies for the repeat image

I wish they would do this with condoms. A picture of a naked man in a lake of fire, with the caption: "You may wear a condom, but unless you practice abstinance, your immoral arse is still going to HELL !"

Why hasn't made cigarettes only available through perscription. It's now universally recognized that it is a drug, yet it isn't regulated. So. Regulate it. Put it out of reach of most people, charge drug type prices, make it only available with a doctors perscription and let's end this once and for all. You can't tell me that the majority of people would prefer not to smoke something that is 100% going to affect their lives.

Quit executive director Todd Harper said the reaction of smokers showed the new packaging was making people think twice about their potentially fatal habit.

"It highlights that they are having an impact if consumers are going to such lengths that they don't want certain images on their packets.

No it doesn't, it shows people don't want to buy things with nasty pictures. I bet people would buy boxes of tea with the statistics on them rather than the picture-referred-to-by-a-goat-name (almost got caught by the filter) or someone vomiting. People are still buying, they just ask for the ones that don't disgust them.

Day_Old_Dutchie
Please do tell, at what point they held a gun to your family members heads and made them smoke?

TFA is about Australia. Of course the farkin' cigarette packs are upside down.

In other news, the U.S. is still too wimpy to require effective warning labels.

thedarkshadow
So when should we made coffee and chocolate perscription only? They contain caffiene, that's a drug.

Alchohol is also a drug, do you think it should only be available via perscription?

/I say live and let die
//Of course that might have something to do with the fact that I believe in an archaic concept called personal responsibility.

It's now universally recognized that it is a drug, yet it isn't regulated. So. Regulate it. Put it out of reach of most people, charge drug type prices, make it only available with a doctors perscription and let's end this once and for all.

In that case, you might as well quit pretending and just ban it. With either option though, all you have done is open up the tobacco black market, where the dealers selling the cigarettes can also tell your kids about pot or heroin since they have a potential customer in their midst.

I can also imagine how much people will enjoy paying for the incarceration of thousands of cigarette smokers for years.

These BASTARDS are taking advantage of young people at one of the most vunerable times of their lives by getting them hooked on a product that KILLS to make their goddam MONEY...

Can i get a list of everything that this sentence applies to?

Alcohol.
Caffiene.
Gambling.
Crack.
Cars.
McDonalds.

The way i see it, im all for letting stupid people do stupid things to themselves. Maybe i related to Charles Darwin...

Actually, make these things MORE potent and MORE lethal, get em out of the pool before they breed.

/dumb ones breed earlier and more often
//smart ones wait and have fewer
///stupid humans...
//hate you all
/cant wait for you to kill yourselves off
//beating the hornets nest
///SLASHZILLA!!

You definitely are the source in this area, and we're gonna shut you down for good ! For good, cancer merchant !

/ obscure?

A video shown at school in 4th or 5th grade with blackened cancerous lungs vividly displayed was a great deterrant against starting smoking.

/drinking is more fun anyway
//ignores pain in liver area

clerks

I can't wait until they start sticking warning labels with pictures of cholesterol-clogged artierial walls on cheeseburgers.

If you don't know that smoking is bad for you, then you should get lung cancer and die. Preferably before you breed.

I think that all this proves is that annoying people with regulations doesn't make them comply.

My favorite part is that Harper guy blaming tobacco companies. People make their own decisions, fella.

Also, if you think that cigarettes are addictive, then try kicking a solid nasal spray habit. That shiat is far tougher to ween yourself from than any cigarette I ever smoked. After I quit Afrin, quitting smoking was a breeze.

I love the graphic packs, I'm trying to collect the set. My biggest argument was when they changed my particular pack to a poncy lavender packet. I emailed the tobacco company suggesting that they put a picture of Al Pacino on instead but they never replied :(

Yeah, smoking. Wow. Good luck with that inhaling smoke 'cuz it looks cool thing!

/when would inhaling smoke ever be considered anything but bad?
//most cig companies own other companies - for example Kraft.

ClemsonSucks: Also, if you think that cigarettes are addictive, then try kicking a solid nasal spray habit. That shiat is far tougher to ween yourself from than any cigarette I ever smoked. After I quit Afrin, quitting smoking was a breeze.


How exactly do you get addicted to nasal spray?

/honestly curious

pff black death sucks, no nicotine no tar, almost atleast... Anyways they still worry about kids smoking NORMAL tobacco? Someone needs to wake up :D

Just perhaps, they also do it because that picture is pretty graphic and something I would rather not look at, since I don't go anywhere to buy cigarettes.

Smokers defend smoking because they're addicts. The only thing that has ever made it cool was the advertising.

That's a mighty bad case of Smoker's foot ya got there, mate!