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Thursday, November 11, 2010

FDA Proposes More Graphic Warning Labels For Cigarettes

In an effort to convince cigarette smokers to quit -- and to stop potential smokers from picking up a pack -- the FDA's Dept. of Health and Human Services has proposed a series of larger, more graphic warnings for cigarette packs and advertising.

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7 comments:

Anonymous said...

if the left gets its way and people quit smoking where will the government make up the tax money

Anonymous said...

The big tobaooc companies need that guy Satterfield more than the chicken companies do!

Anonymous said...

if people want to smoke, let them. quit this bullcrap of telling us what we can and cant do with our bodies! im sure these new labels will cost more. im sure the government will hire label inspectors. im sure...

Anonymous said...

This has to be one of the more idiotic ideas ever! Kids will just laugh at the photos. It will make them want to do it more.

And 9:25 has it right.....they keep saying that they want to stop people from smoking altogether yet almost every health plan proposed by the left use the tax money from cigarettes as the funding source.

They stop people from smoking = more taxes for everybody.

Anonymous said...

Makes sense; the current ones never had any effect. Big government needs another way to infringe on private enterprise and claim they are saving people from themselves.

Anonymous said...

Then by all means let's do the same thing for booze.Every can of beer,every bottle of whiskey-lets show them a jaundiced wizened human being who has wet themselves in the throes of a seizure and puking.Sounds ridiculous,doesnt it?

Anonymous said...

9:50, you left out killing someone with a car.