Re: cigarette pack warnings

On 6/22/2011 9:55 AM, Tori Egherman wrote:

> When are they going to learn?

Yup. My sentiments exactly. <bg>

Only a couple of the images are perhaps gruesome enough to stand out 
from the crowd for a sophisticated viewing audience raised on 
violence-ridden movies and (CSI-style) televised series featuring 
blood & guts & medical procedures almost as main characters.

The shock value just isn't there, especially for kids who live with 
real, immediate violence every day (domestic violence and abuse, gang 
shootings/stabbings/beatings, war, etc.).

I don't actually think there are any images capable of getting teens 
to project themselves into a diseased middle or old age, which is when 
cancer & heart disease usually strike.

And if they could, it's probably the ravages of aging more than 
smoking which would terrify. ;-)

Deborah
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Deborah Taylor-Pearce
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