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[linnea]

Ughhhh. It's as if those cigarette image folks have deliberately chosen their images to squick out as many people as possible. A particularly grody one doesn't skeeve you out and give you the heebie-jeebies? Rest assured, friend, there's bound to be one that does.

I didn't even click on your link, AW.

[AugustWest]

Mine is far more comically over the top.  Plus, it's German (and who's funnier than the Germans?)

[melack]

Mine is far more comically over the top.  Plus, it's German (and who's funnier than the Germans?)

Severely burned Canadians.

[side_show]

Why would she be moving the pot off of the stove.  That makes no sense.

Because she's hopped up on meth.  Oh wait... no that's this PSA.

[Arachno-capitalist]

The montana meth project ads are the best PSAs. They actually succeed in their point... unlike this dont spill boiling oil all over your face ad or the smoking will make you blind pictures. Im sorry but those cigarette things are too over the top to be effective. No one is looking at that and honestly buying into the idea that smoking will make them blind or lose a foot. I think i have better odds of getting hit by a car than losing my foot because of cigarettes.

[theinevitable]

Ughhhh. It's as if those cigarette image folks have deliberately chosen their images to squick out as many people as possible. A particularly grody one doesn't skeeve you out and give you the heebie-jeebies? Rest assured, friend, there's bound to be one that does.

I mean... yes. Isn't that the entire point?

and A-CAP-- they make ads that say that smoking will make you lose your foot? I would think, you know, just your tongue, throat, lungs, and lips.

[KeithHernandez]

I like the cigarettes may cause erectile dysfunction with a limp cigarette.  I would love to get that pack.


Edit:  Also, for my money, the UK [huge letters making up half the front] SMOKING KILLS is probably the best.

[AugustWest]

The montana meth project ads are the best PSAs. They actually succeed in their point... unlike this dont spill boiling oil all over your face ad or the smoking will make you blind pictures. Im sorry but those cigarette things are too over the top to be effective. No one is looking at that and honestly buying into the idea that smoking will make them blind or lose a foot. I think i have better odds of getting hit by a car than losing my foot because of cigarettes.

Exactly.  And you have a far better chance of getting emphysema if you smoke than both combined. 

But hey, your foot is safe.

[theinevitable]

Exactly.  And you have a far better chance of getting emphysema if you smoke than both combined.

But hey, your foot is safe.

Also, it is not really a fair comparison, because smoking cigarettes is not something that happens randomly or due to someone else's error.

[Doc]

Nice one AW, I wish I could find a copy of an old undergrad lab safety video I had to watch a few times, basically a sandwich led to a building burning down.

Having been in a position of dispensing the aforementioned horrifying cigarette packs by the way I can attest to people paying attention to the pics on them. Sure they usually just asked for another packet but it is attention grabbing, just not necessarily that effective.

[KeithHernandez]

losing my foot because of cigarettes.

To paraphrase Bill Hicks (smoking may cause damage to unborn fetuses)  "hey, found my brand."  That's right people, if I could smoke and lose one foot thirty years from now and have no other damage I am taking that in a heartbeat.  I think it is time people admit that cigarettes are awesome and the only reason everybody doesn't smoke them is because of health, which is a valid reason, I guess.

[chuanoplast]

If you lose your foot to cigarettes it is a win-win situation because not only are you losing weight you are also leaving behind a really awesome foot in the hospital morgue.

Even better: let your gangrenous foot fester for a while until maggots appear, and you have got yourself some new friends!

[Doc]

Plus you can use the maggots to clean out any ulcers or other sores on a body that is no doubt wracked from neglect.

[KeithHernandez]

they can just cut that shit off you know.  How much heavy athletic stuff are you going to be doing after 2 packs a day for forty years?

[CortJstr]

I don't get why Canada, the UK, and other countries whose economies aren't as bound to tobacco don't just ban them outright instead of futzing around with giant warnings. The US will never do that because tobacco is a money crop and it would be expensive to convert all the farms to something useful. But what's stopping countries that don't actually grow the stuff? Vice taxes, I'm guessing.