• Young Smokers Don't Care About Graphic Packs
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[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;42088691]no but a pure tobacco cigarette versus what we currently have, would you not say a pure tobacco would be a better product health wise? I'm not saying it wouldn't do damage or hurt or be a problem, but I'm pretty sure if some of those horrible things weren't there, they would be less dangerous.[/QUOTE] I doubt removing the additives would have much of a beneficial effect. Not that I know for sure, but have you ever heard about diseases associated with smoking occurring because of additives, as opposed to just tobacco burn products?
I did say it would reman unhealthy. Good job glazing over that. So tobacco alone is more dangerous than benzine, formaldehyde, hydrogen cyanide, and a whole list of other additives?
[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;42088691]no but a pure tobacco cigarette versus what we currently have, would you not say a pure tobacco would be a better product health wise? I'm not saying it wouldn't do damage or hurt or be a problem, but I'm pretty sure if some of those horrible things weren't there, they would be less dangerous.[/QUOTE] Regardless, you're inhaling smoke into your lungs. I myself smoke additive free but it really doesn't change much. Besides, the chemical formulas for additive cigarettes are what caused the tobacco industry to boom in the first place...I don't think many companies would be willing to change that.
[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;42088177]If you have the kind of peers that pressure you into ruining your life like that, I think you need some new peers. That is no excuse, especially today when the truth about the health consequences is ubiquitously known.[/QUOTE] Life is more complicated than "find new friends" you know. My best friend in the world got me smoking bud back in college, and whilst he and my friends did pressure me, if I decided to just leave them then I'd be lonely and have a shit time in college.
I'm asking a question because it seems odd to me. I don't have any clue personally.
[QUOTE=KorJax;42083159] Even then I wouldn't say its exactly effective. [B]Everybody already knows the downsides to cigarettes[/B].[/QUOTE] I wouldn't say that, I have a friend who quit smoking a while ago but doesn't believe they actually do any harm, despite him being really intelligent when it comes to pretty much anything else, and another who has been smoking for a while and also believes that smokes do nothing to him and alcohol doesn't effect him, and he [I]always[/I] tries to offer me a cigarette. He legitimately believes he just "likes" them and he can't get addicted.
[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;42089196]I'm asking a question because it seems odd to me. I don't have any clue personally.[/QUOTE] All it takes is a little research. All that shit was added for a better "buzz" at the cost of health/safety. Then the industry boomed, leading them to believe that's what caused it. So yes, additive-free is healthier but still dangerous, but it won't be a tobacco "norm" for quite a while.
Are they gonna put pictures of really fat people on the big mac box? Maybe put a picture of 2.5 million corpses on every bottle of alcohol?
[QUOTE=latin_geek;42083262]They should find some organ donor smoker cadavers with ruined black lungs and open the fuckers up in front of highschoolers for biology class, that'd be a fun interactive experience.[/QUOTE] Slightly off topic, but a "Bodies" exhibit that my school went to several years did feature a set of lungs from a deceased long time smoker. What those things lacked in colour, they made up for in shinyness. Still weren't as bad as the coal miner's lungs which, ironically, looked like lumps of coal.
[QUOTE=.Isak.;42083104]I've got a number of friends who have been smoking since freshman/sophomore year. They're all totally aware that they're destroying their lungs. It's not exactly hard knowledge to come by. Graphic covers won't make them change their mind - they know. They're just already addicted. They're aware that it's wasting them money, they're aware that they're killing themselves, but they do it anyways. Changing the covers to pus-filled tumor lungs won't change anybody's mind. If anything, it'll just make cigarette case profits shoot up for a bit.[/QUOTE] Ask any non-smoker who says "you'll save money if you didn't smoke" and ask them to show the fruits of not smoking. The majority of them can't. Money not spent on smoking is generally spent on some other bills, food, petrol, etc.
[QUOTE=Water-Marine;42083081]Well no shit...if you're already addicted, a graphic isn't going to do much. They just assume "Meh, that'll never happen to me" and move on. It takes something serious to deter someone from their addiction. This is coming from a three-year chain smoker, by the way.[/QUOTE] Coming from being a two year smoker and a friend of 5 other 7+ year long smokers, I can say right now that nobody who smokes thinks [B]"Meh, that'll never happen to me"[/B] They [B]ALL[/B] know it will happen to them, maybe not now, maybe not later, but most kids are very self aware that cigarettes increases cancer rates and death rate, however, [B]THAT'S [/B]what makes it so cool to them, it's rebellious, it's the act of doing something taboo and feeling cool about it. God I don't think I've ever met a single person in my life, kid or adult that believed smoking would do nothing to them. This is why Graphic Cigarette ad's continue to fail, because smokers don't care, they've already passed that "theoretical" line of caring about their body and overall health.
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