New Cigarette Warning Labels

[spade2you]

Well, thank you, but I was making a joke on the expression "plays like butter".

If they tasted like bacon, we'd all get lung cancer.

 

[ShredderMaximus]

Well, thank you, but I was making a joke on the expression "plays like butter".

Wait...

amidoinitrightnow?

 

[chicago_mike]

I wonder.....

They tax those things so much....and thay also want you to quit...

What will they tax next once that revenue goes away from everybody "supposedly" quitting over these scare tactic labels?

 

[Bloodhammer]

Butter and bacon probably...

 

[lowfreq33]

We need pictures of morbidly obese people on doughnut boxes.

 

[Kwesi]

Even as a non-smoker and hater of those who do it around me I find the new labels unnecessary and lacking both taste and tact. The stuffs bad for you and everyone knows it. No need to force the point by turning every pack of cigs into a Saw movie.

 

[Kwesi]

We need pictures of morbidly obese people on doughnut boxes.

Jesus H. Christ, I'd never eat another donut again.

 

[Muaguana]

I completely disagree with these labels. Why are we trying to save human lives anyway? I say let people smoke if they want to, and let them die. The world's getting more crowded by the day; at least let the people who refuse to take care of their bodies free up resources for those who do.

 

[spade2you]

I completely disagree with these labels. Why are we trying to save human lives anyway? I say let people smoke if they want to, and let them die. The world's getting more crowded by the day; at least let the people who refuse to take care of their bodies free up resources for those who do.

It's just not a quick death, rather an expensive lingering that they do.

 

[Muaguana]

It's just not a quick death, rather an expensive lingering that they do.

Your point?

 

[L-A]

Your point?

You don't exactly "let them be" if what they do is suck up resources for ten years before dying. Not that it happens all the time.

 

[spade2you]

Your point?

That slow linger is pretty expensive when you factor in all of the tax dollars for meds, home oxygen, doctor visits, and hospitalizations.

 

[Muaguana]

True, but you really didn't expect me to propose shooting these people when they take their first puff, did you? Plus, I'm certainly not going to wish them well, so the only recourse is to "let them die," whenever that may be.

 

[Longhair]

You don't exactly "let them be" if what they do is suck up resources for ten years before dying. Not that it happens all the time.

Healthy people are doing the same exact thing.

 

[GregC]

Healthy people are doing the same exact thing.

Sure, if you think lung cancer treatments are free.

 

[GregC]

True, but you really didn't expect me to propose shooting these people when they take their first puff, did you? Plus, I'm certainly not going to wish them well, so the only recourse is to "let them die," whenever that may be.

This gets back to your question of why the labels are there to try and prevent them from smoking in the first place. That's the other recourse.

 

[L-A]

Healthy people are doing the same exact thing.

I think I get where you're going, and I'm pretty sure we'd agree on that, but the discussion would get very political, very fast.

 

[Stranger Danger]

I work in healthcare and I can tell you unequivocally that type 2 diabetes (the kind you eat yourself into) is a much greater scourge on healthcare dollars than smoking. Nobody wants to say it because it's not nice to label fats but it's perfectly acceptable and politically viable to crap on smokers.

 

[L-A]

I work in healthcare and I can tell you unequivocally that type 2 diabetes (the kind you eat yourself into) is a much greater scourge on healthcare dollars than smoking. Nobody wants to say it because it's not nice to label fats but it's perfectly acceptable and politically viable to crap on smokers.

I have a friend who works mostly with morbidly obese patients. The amount post-op work and monitoring they require is incredible.

 

[spade2you]

Diabesity is next on the list, although it's hard to ignore that many of them tend to smoke, too.