Seriously though, I'm a "smoker on the road", that is - when I'm away from home on business trips - I smoke. And I'll tell you those cigarette packs in Thailand and Hong Kong are much more horrific. And now that I'm reminded of those horrible - horrible labels, I feel like smoking... Because that's the psychology of someone who quit smoking but loves to smoke. Anything reminding me of smoking, makes me want to smoke.
Tobacco labels crank up the horror factor and, maybe, their impact
Cigarette labels are going for the throat. If you’ve ever peeked at the gross-out pictures in a medical book, you’re really going to want to check out the new warning labels that will soon appear on all cigarette packages sold in the U.S.
The tobacco labels — unveiled Tuesday by the Food and Drug Administration — definitely ratchet up the shock value. Instead of a few stern words from the surgeon general, new packages will feature graphic pictures — a guy blowing smoke through a tracheotomy hole in his neck, a corpse with an evidently unsuccessful surgical scar running down his chest, a cancerous lip, a set of diseased lungs. One of the labels features a cartoon of a distressed baby in an incubator along with the warning that “smoking during pregnancy can harm your baby.”
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