This could be what your pack of cancer sticks looks like if the FDA gets its way and is allowed to require “graphic images” on cigarette packages to deter smoking…
The NY Daily News report gives me mixed feelings since the Liberal in me thinks it’s awesome and well over due, but the Conservative in me knows it’s a ridiculous stipulation. I still side on the left on this one though, stupid rule or not. It’s just too awesome to speak out against.
It’s going to be harder to feel “alive with pleasure” with a photo of an emaciated man, dying of cancer, staring back at you from your cigarette package.
The Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that it will require such graphic images to be placed on the front and back of cigarette packages as part of a radical new campaign to keep teens from lighting up and to push longtime smokers to quit.
The FDA set a June 22, 2011 deadline for tobacco companies to redesign their packaging to include the images. They will also be required to place the jarring images on cigarette cartons.
Uncomfortable exit question: If cigarettes require graphic warnings, why doesn’t abortion?