They have been on our packages in Canada for a few years now.....some really gross pictures too. I just avoided looking at them when I opened my smokes.......it still always registered that these were things that happened to other people, not to me. Oh the addict mind...... -.-
yeah, I heard this on the news this morning! Very interesting! I truly hope it deters teenagers and younger smokers from starting. I worry that the younger ones are the arrogant ones who think nothing bad will ever happen to them.
I think Connie's right. People will ignore, just like always. "It can't happen to ME! It's about other people!"
I like the one with the POSITIVE message: that quitting can reverse many of the effects. Being FREE of addiction is what appealed to me most when I quit (as a young person), and is one of the strongest benefits now. Kids still start smoking because their peers do, and to be 'cool.' It has to be by their "idols" to be NOT cool. The NOT smoking is "cooler!"
When my husaband came home from working on Cayman Island all of his packs said "SMOKING KILLS" in large letters covering 1/3 of both sides. This was Marlboro. On the Island, you cant even smoke at most outside Tiki Bars.
Also, on the Island people kept telling him about Allen Carr's book. Trying to get him to quit. I wish he would.
unfortunately, history has proven the addict will get his drug.. no matter what... he has to hit rock bottem before he will even consider quitting.... and that goes for the nicotine addict too....
The images are no worse than what's on the TV ads. Those are pretty graphic. I think it not really going to stop smoking. Just, perhaps encourage sly ways of covering the packs...
what i mean if they are not addicts they dont care what is on the pack they wont look at it because it is in someone elses pocket... they might get a glimpse but a nonsmoker has no use for it....
they will probably come out with cigarette carrying cases... just take youer cigarettes out and put them in the case.. like in the forties.. humphrey bogart used to have one i think
@izzy---that is exactly what will happen, izzy--GOD BLESS the American enterprising spirit. The cigarette "cases" weren't just in the 40's..people still use them especially if they smoke "soft pack" cigarettes. Want to bet that Phillip Morris has a side business of cigarette cases????? Phillip Morris has "spun off" into so many businesses it is almost impossible not to "support" them in some way.
Connie is right---I'd like to think this would stop people but I have to be honest---it would NOT have stopped me. As a matter of fact, it probably would have annoyed me to the point of once again "pushing off" quitting because I felt all non smokers were righteous pains.
As far as deterring the kids---do you remember being a kid---the riskier the behavior the better.....how much has been shown to them about other drugs and yet the drug problem keeps rolling.
Hello,
My name is Dale. I was quit 18 months before joining this site and had participated on another site during that time. I learned a lot there and brought it with me. I joined this site the first week of August 2008. I didn't pressure myself to quit.
HOW I QUIT
I didn't count, I didn't deny myself to get started.
When I considered quitting (at a friends request to influence his brother to quit), I simply told myself to wait a little longer. No denial, nothing painful. After 4 weeks I was down to 5 cigarettes from a pack a day. The strength came from proving to myself, I didn't need to smoke because I normally would have smoked. Simple yes? I bought the patch. I forgot to put one on on the 4th day. I needed it the next day but the following week I forgot two days in a row I put one in my wallet with a promise to myself that I would slap it on and wait an hour rather than smoke. It rode in my wallet my first year.There's nothing keeping any of you from doing this. It doesn't cost a dime. This is about unlearning something you've done for a long time. The nicotine isn't the hard part. Disconnecting from the psychological pull, the memories and connected emotions is. :-) Time is the healer.
