French Warning Labels

[warren]

A century age plus it was baseball cards from the cigarette companies. Some of those cards are worth big money today. Collect them. Perhaps in a hundred years, your spore will have a collection worth a million dollars.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

 

[eaglewriter1]

Dude post a warning label on THIS^^. That is realy uncomfortable to look at.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

 

[cosmicfolklore]

That is really uncomfortable to look at.

Isn't that the point? They are conditioning us to like gross pictures. This will be the results of this campaign of theirs. They put their ugly pictures on our tobacco, and we give it back to them. Plaster this everywhere. That is much more effective than whining about it. Embrace it. Make it ours. That will be fighting back, instead of just... "Ohh, their campaign is working. I don't want to buy gross pictures. Thank you for saving me from smoke anti-tobacco nazi."

 

[Chasing Embers]

Considering how if you go to the doctor for five cracked ribs, a broken leg, and a dislocated shoulder and the first thing they ask is if you smoke, that broken toe warning must surely be true!

 

[cosmicfolklore]

 

[eaglewriter1]

100% of people who smoke die! So there has to be some truth to this no?

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Truth? Since when did truth come into this? :: It's marketing...

 

[perdurabo]

So France doesn’t haveStrong Trademark laws?

 

[perdurabo]

The totalitarian of the Goodies!

 

[madox07]

Javier .. people actually win lawsuits against the government in Turkey? I thought Mr. erdogan made it pretty clear, the government is always right :lol:

 

[Chasing Embers]

I'm failing to see the negative with this one. More time to smoke.

 

[brian64]

Something similar happened in Turkey in 2011; they took a picture of a guy who was in coma and printed it on cigarette packs: He got fired from his job, his wife asked him to stay away from their 1 year old daughter and later left the house, his friends and relatives started moving away from him thinking he had some kind of contagious disease, he sold his house and car because he couldn't find a job, later he opened a small cafe but people stopped buying from him because of the same reason. In the end, he had to move out of his village. The interesting part is, he was in coma because of a non-tobacco related issue. Later he filed a lawsuit against the government.

A vivid example of how easily the hive mind is manipulated.

 

[pepesdad1]

Ought to put pictures of the congress-critters that pass this crap in the first place...with a big hash mark through their faces.

That ought to raise some hackles.
BUT...they can have their high end cigars.

 

[warren]

BUT...they can have their high end cigars.

All of us can.
And, you are blaming the wrong people. The blame rests with you, I and our neighbors who vote ... and don't vote. Can't blame anyone else.

 

[brian64]

Voting might actually accomplish something if every ballot included a choice of "none of the above".

 

[piper64]

The cabbies mixture I received had a disgusting image. However clever Mr Gawith has provided an outer box to display the image whilst inside the box is a perfect ad free tin. A genius way of getting around the defacement of the product.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Lets not forget that the FDA is not beholden to politicians, nor are they elected. And this was all Big Cigarette’s push within the FDA to possibly take over. Or a vendetta against RYO and vapes.. The FDA board that set all of this was made up of cigarette execs.

 

[brian64]

^ All very true Cosmic...but Congress could pull the plug on all of that if they really wanted to. But we all know that's never gonna happen.