If you smoke is it your fault?

psychoslice said:

Do cigarette boxes have pictures of cancerous lungs, and all the rest of smoking related disease on them where you are, we do here in Australia, there just ugly to look at, but people still buy them.

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Oh god I hate those Plain Packaging stuff. I sell them in my job and it's gross to look at it. Interestingly there seems to be one specific pic that gets to customers (depending on who they are) and they will actually ask for another pic. Like fathers will usually avoid the one with the fetus being affected by smoke, the ones with severe illness will ask for one that does not portray cancer etc.

SomeRandom said:

Oh god I hate those Plain Packaging stuff. I sell them in my job and it's gross to look at it. Interestingly there seems to be one specific pic that gets to customers (depending on who they are) and they will actually ask for another pic. Like fathers will usually avoid the one with the fetus being affected by smoke, the ones with severe illness will ask for one that does not portray cancer etc.

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Manly smokers collect the whole set!

dust1n said:

That could be it. I simply don't remember anything from first grade.

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Fair enough. However, it was that memorable. I remember begging my parents to stop smoking, as I was frightened on their behalf.

dust1n said:

I'm assuming there was zebra stripe print somewhere.

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No, zebra strip prints weren't usually marketed for kids my age. (And if they were, I was oblivious.)

Shadow Wolf said:

I don't know about how yours was, but my first grade smoking prevention barely covered the risks, it didn't mention the ingredients that any other product that has those ingredients has a warning label specifically for those ingredients, and it pretty much stopped at "smoking is bad, don't do it."

And, of course, it's a very different environment when you are a teen and you live a smoking state (typically one of the first things I notice when I'm in another state is that very few people smoke, with the exception being Kentucky).

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You know... Various cancers (lung, mouth, etc.) and emphysema were scary enough. We were shown pictures, and the models displayed were graphic enough. Even if we didn't know every last ingredient, the sight of blackened, shriveled lungs, or ugly growths on lips, or diagrams where the ugly growths might have appeared as esophageal cancer was more than enough to want nothing to do with cigarettes, and to plead with my parents to stop.

My father eventually did. My mother stopped while she was pregnant with my youngest brother, but when I went to Israel for the year between high school and college, she started again. She died of lung cancer ten years ago.

New York was a smoking state. Half of the diners haven't changed their looks from when they had "smoking sections." The older train stations have a high ceiling and a ceiling fan that was designed for better circulation and to push away smoke from the people waiting therein.

SomeRandom said:

Oh god I hate those Plain Packaging stuff. I sell them in my job and it's gross to look at it. Interestingly there seems to be one specific pic that gets to customers (depending on who they are) and they will actually ask for another pic. Like fathers will usually avoid the one with the fetus being affected by smoke, the ones with severe illness will ask for one that does not portray cancer etc.

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Yes it just goes to show how addictive that crap is.

We are partially at fault for smoking. We make the decision to smoke in the beginning but it is important not to discount the effects the harsh chemicals and nicotine have on the human brain and the pleasure centers. The brain seeks that original buzz with that first cigarette. We are also at fault when we encourage people to smoke, as it enables an addiction. Instead we should be supporting people when they are trying to quite, as this can be extremely difficult due to the brain freaking out at the sudden starvation of nicotine.

Tlaloc said:

Manly smokers collect the whole set!

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Haha! They'd have to be pretty bloody rich.