Sorry Smokers, Kathleen Sebelius Wants Your Cigarettes... Eventually

[Warph]

I watched this on C-span tonight...  Sebelius and Dr. Howard Koh, asst. HHS, (brother of State Dept. Legal advisor and world class nut case, Harold Koh, Clown Esquire) are the two behind this.  They want you to quit smoking!  They have come up with what they call an ingenious way to make you quit.  It didn't work in Chili and it won't work here.  In fact, the youth smoking rate almost doubled.  Ah... the freaking government.  I can see it now.... next they'll be putting slabs of fat extracted during these same peoples' liposuction on display in the fast-food restaurants as well.  Or, how about this.  Why not label everything this way.  A few examples: On the sides of banks we could have pictures of foreclosed homeless people; on the sides of oil trucks could be pictures of dead pelicans; on the sides of Wal-Mart could be pictues of Asian sweat-shops.  I could go on and on and... (yawn) ...on.  There is no doubt smoking causes cancer, heart disease.... etc.  About 20.6 percent of the nation's adults, or 46.6 million people, and about 19.5 percent of high school students, or 3.4 million teenagers, are smokers.  Think these people are going to quit because of pictures on a cigarette pack?  I think not.

.....Warph



WASHINGTON — Federal drug regulators on Wednesday unveiled 36 proposed warning labels for cigarette packages, including one showing a toe tag on a corpse and another in which a mother blows smoke on her baby.

Designed to cover half the surface area of a pack or carton of cigarettes, and a fifth of any advertisements for them, the labels are intended to spur smokers to quit by providing graphic reminders of tobacco's dangers. The labels are required under a law passed last year that gave the Food and Drug Administration the power to regulate, but not ban, tobacco products for the first time.

Rest of goofy story at:  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/11/health/policy/11tobacco.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

[srkruzich]

Holy cow, after years of desensitizing the public with texas chainsaw massecre, resident evil 1 -3, silence of the lambs, ect ect ect they think thats going to stop anyone?  Sheeesh

[srkruzich]

ALSO notice in the article the slick attempt to associate the United states as the drug dealer to the world, with this comment
the first settlers were traders for england, france and spain.  They were the ones who developed the trade. and turned it into business. Long before the US was even thought of.

With Wednesday's announcement, the United States — whose first European settlements in the 17th century helped to create and feed a global tobacco addiction — edged a step closer to joining those nations' efforts to reduce the centuries-old epidemic of tobacco-related deaths.

[greatguns]

I'm sure it will straighten my arse right out.  NOT!!!!!!!!!

[Varmit]

What a bunch of dumbasses.  If they are going to go that route then they should put pictures of mulitilated fetues outside abortion clinics, pictures of a broken, devastated, carnage ridden third world pest hole outside all the democratic offices.  Or if they really want to save money in these times, quit trying to dictate the peoples lives and stop spending money on these types of completely useless propaganda.

[Patriot]

Makes my wallet hurt.  I'm goin to the barn for a smoke and some coffee while I think about this one.

[twirldoggy]

Another thought:  It is very disrespectful to the human being who has their photo on the pack of cigarettes. 
What are we coming to if we do this.

[mtcookson]

Hmm... *pulling out my pack o' smokes" Well look at that, its plastic! Oh and I make my own cigarettes too. Yay, I won't even be affected at all by this (not that I would even care).

Plan B Ms. Shebillsus?