www.chicagobreakingbusiness.com...Because words aren't enough.
In the first major change to cigarette packaging in a quarter-century, the Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday it would require graphic warning labels that cover half a package's front and rear and the top 20% of all cigarette ads according to The Los Angeles Times.
The labels will feature either drawings or photos illustrating graphically the dangers associated with smoking and will be accompanied by text stating that smoking is addictive or that it kills.
The pictures feature such things as a diseased lung, a corpse and a man smoking a cigarette through a tracheotomy tube. They are not quite as grim as some used in other countries, but regulators hope they will be sufficiently frightening to keep young people from beginning to smoke and to strengthen the will of those who are attempting to quit according to The Los Angeles Times.
To this day, I still have the image of a poster about the dangers of chewing tobacco my 7th grade science teacher Mrs. Justin had hanging in her class room. It was of a dark-haired, healthy and handsome looking young man on the left of the poster and on the right was the same man but what he looked like after using chewing tobacco. In the picture on the right, his jaw was almost completely disfigured and his once wholesome looking appearance was now irreversibly tarnished. After searching the Internet for the poster, I wasn't able to find it BUT I did find his name and the back story that led to the poster. The unfortunate face on the poster was of Sean Marsee. He was only 19-years-old when he died from mouth cancer.
Thank you Mrs. Justin for scaring me with your poster. It worked.
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