Hi All...
News just in.....Smoking is bad for you!
Shock horror! I've never heard that before!
Over here in the UK the powers that be (whoever they are) have decided to put pictures on all cigarette/cigar/tobacco packets, in order that we can see the damage for ourselves.
Every time we take out our packet of whatever, we will see these images, we are supposed to think "Oh crap, if I smoke this stuff I'll end up looking like this"
OK, I can see their point. Alan Johnson told the BBC
"We do think it will help the number of people, who want to give up to smoking - the vast majority of smokers want to give up - and this will give them an extra push,"
That's fine, I can cope with that, but what I want is equality!
I want to see pictures of pissed people on bottles of beer/wine/spirits. Why not? It's along a similar vein?
If you drink your liver will look like this...If you drink you will look like this....If you drink tizer, your urine will look like this...
I think this is fair. What about other things, like fast food? If we're gonna go putting pictures of the results of over-indulgence on products, why not pictures of fat bastards on Macdonalds wrappers? Why not pictures of Alice Cooper or the band KISS or even Barbara Cartland on make-up products?
Personally, I don't smoke that much, outside, no kids around, and I have accepted that it's not the healthiest thing in the world, and I'm not proud of it. It's just something I do. I don't want to see autopsy pictures while I'm doing it.
Thanks for reading!
5 comments:
If everyone who had a drink was an alcoholic then your point would have merit, but smoking is several times more addictive than drinking, and no amount is healthy.
Red wine may be beneficial in small quantities, but Silk Cuts will never save a mans life.
MaccieD's? Well if you ever enter your local restaurant you'll see they do advertise the outcome of overindulgence. They're sat treating their kids to 'Sunday Lunch'. If you don't see a vision of your future and walk straight back out then no amount of heart attack photos will change that.
There's something else that many people are hooked on, yet it's totally uneccassary, has no positive health implications, makes you socially awkward, and is really hard to stop once it's got you involved... Heroi..uh, I mean Religion. If pictures are gonna be posted on smokes, fastfood and lagers then i want to see 40 foot projections of bullet riddled shiite muslim children being projected on the side of my local chapel.
-Yao
Are you sure that "bullett riddled shiite muslim children" are the direct result of religion? This sounds like the kind of blind atheist view that religion = christianity. I'm am pretty darn sure that Buddhists have not killed any "shiite muslim children".
To be honest I think that in the right circumstances religion can be a good thing. If people are down, depressed and lonely and use religion to make themselves feel happy and more secure then by all means use it. If it costs you money then fine. It is a small price to pay. It's when religion starts using you that it's a problem.
I don't think christians specifically shoot children, unless they're yanks, but even then it's not guaranteed to happen. I'm kinda hinting that if every drink or burger should have a health warning because it might be abused and cause health issues, then so should every church for the same reasons.
The same cannot be said of nicotine. Every cigarette hastens your demise, there is no "beneficial smoke". Every citizen who places a cancer stick to their lips, lights up and inhales is committing suicide in 4" installments.
A bullet riddled child is a tragedy, but so is a fatherless child. The UK governement can't stop either from occurring, but they can give it a shot.
The real tragedy is that in both cases the children are the last things the government are concerned about. We 're selling weapons to oppressive religious regimes, and the bid to cut smoking is to reduce the NHS bill and increase GNP through getting more ex-smokers back to work.
If it lowers my taxes i'm all for it (as if i'll ever see a rebate because you quit the stick :P), but the principal is there. Stopping smoking will simply be a good thing in the long run, for you, your children, your friends and everyone.
How's your cough these days by the way?
-Yao
But.......more people die due to the misuse of alcohol! Smokers generally only damage themselves especially now smokers are only allowed to smoke at least 300 yards away from a non-smoker when there is a strong breeze! Unless you've taken to stabbing people with lit cigarettes non drinkers are still capable of being killed by a drink driver!
So leave the smokers to kill themselves or save all the money spent on trying to save them and make them take up health insurance like the Americans and go private. You want to smoke you can pay for any illnesses stemming from it that way! :)
Unfortunately people giving up smoking would affect the general population more than most people realise...
How much tax is raised through the sale of cancer sticks? I reckon that Tax and NI will actually go up if there was a sudden surge in people kicking the habit.
I'd also suggest that the tax money they will lose through this will be more than the NHS spend on treating "smoking related" (not smoking caused) illnesses.
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