Re: cigarette pack warnings

On Jun 22, 2011, at 10:37 PM, David Sless wrote:
> In oz the government has gone two steps further. The disease pictures have been with us for a few years. The most recent initiative is that tobacco products cannot be displayed on open shelves and have to be shelved behind closed cupboard doors with 'warnings' on them. 
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> we can see these moves as a progressive grab for control of real estate. Every additional square centimetre of space that is controlled by government rather than industry is a simple expression of increased power. What goes into that space is less important than control over the space itself. 
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> it falls far more comfortably into the ritual of display rather than any notion of effective communication. This often happens in situations where governments would like to control something, find they cannot, but they can put on a good show to tell us that they care. 

In Oz, they lock up cigarettes in their ceremonial display of disapproval. In America's similarly ceremonial War on Drugs, we lock up tens of thousands of people. We also make them wear ugly generic clothing but haven't included cautionary photographs on them yet.

Warmest regards from hot and steamy North Carolina.


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