Originally Posted By iamsally Okay, I do not know the exact numbers but I do know that the percentage of people smoking now is way less than in the 50's. So something has helped get people to quit or not start at all. I am not saying it is warning labels cuz I really do not know. I do know some have said they quit because of the price. I recently ran into an old friend and was SHOCKED to hear he had quit. He was one of those militant smokers. He said he was just tired of hacking up a lung every morning and then going for a cigarette as soon as he could breath again. You just never know. >>>>and yet they make themselves completely and irreparably unattractive thru years of smoke. Makes no sense to me<<<<< Me neither mele.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I don't understand how this is supposed to inform people or get them to change their minds. At this point, everybody who is old enough to buy tobacco products (18+) has seen plenty of information about the dangers associated with it. The people who already use tobacco know it firsthand, and all children are taught it in schools. By the time people are looking at the packaging, they've already made up their minds. Part of what bugs me about these anti-tobacco campaigns is that they always refer to it as 'big tobacco'. You never hear about 'big fast food', 'big grocery', or 'big apparel', but for some reason it's bad to have tobacco be backed by big companies. Having grown up in an area that was largely based on tobacco farming and production, I've seen a lot of the impacts from the campaigns. It's not the corporations that are hurting, it's the individual farmers and workers. Yes, they have done a lot to spread the word about the dangers of tobacco, but at what point do they just have to accept the fact that they've done enough? The general population knows the dangers. This just seems like someone needed to justify why they have a job.
Originally Posted By Fowley We've had that sort of pictures and warnings on packet here in Australia for years, there still are heaps of smokers over here
Originally Posted By Liberty Belle >>We've had that sort of pictures and warnings on packet here in Australia for years, there still are heaps of smokers over here << I actually think we have a comparatively small amount of smokers, or at least a comparatively small amount of teenagers taking up smoking, to other countries I heard that somewhere, and I think it's fairly true from what I've seen - I only know two people under the age of 30 who smoke. That said, I have absolutely no idea if that's due to government, warnings, society or something entirely different!
Originally Posted By Fowley ^^ go hang out in Bell Street in Ipswich and you will be surprised, it smokers central there, high school kids to the half dead oldies lol
