Health warning pictures on cigarette packets

Graham Crocker

Nov 1st 2009, 15:33

Look guys, if "smoking causes impotence" didn't deter the men, then photos of diseased mouths and lungs isn't going to do anything. duh.

Jesmond Micallef

Oct 29th 2009, 22:11

@Michael Muscat

Good one !!!

Jesmond Micallef

Oct 29th 2009, 22:06

Buying a packet of cigarettes in Malta, usually one has the option of two languages in order to understand the health risk. The notice is written both in Maltese and English.

Buying a packet of cigarettes in continental Europe, one has only one option, but to learn the language of the place in order to understand the message written on the packet !!!

The use of Pictorials is on these grounds - FAIR !!

Question : Are these pictorials based upon a standard code of presentation such as the ones used in say - Health and Safety ? I am refering to the ISO code of symbols. These are usually found on containers containing chemicals, for example..

A Cassar

Oct 29th 2009, 18:38

@Paul Barrett
Your assumptions are totally false and have been again and again disproven.

Calling tabacco health risk a "hype" is just like calling the earth being round a myth. The tobacco industry has had to pay more than 350 billion US$ in punitive damages to individual states in the US for damages caused by tobacco before extent of health risk was made to the public. I very much doubt that the tobacco industry's lawyers are not good enough to prove that this is only a "hype"....maybe they need you to help them prove this!!

The cost of health care for tobacco related disease, plus the lost income from deaths and disability of working age smokers, plus cost related to spouses and children of deceased far outweighs the taxes on cigarettes and pensions saved. Every pack sold has an economic cost above 7US$ in the US. I doubt that the government taxes you that much on each pack. So far from saving us money you are actually costing us money.

Michael Muscat

Oct 29th 2009, 16:46

and pictures of rotting livers on whiskey bottles !

Paul Barrett

Oct 29th 2009, 16:33

Oh good, something interesting to look at whilst paying exorbitant taxes on tobacco and smoking myself to death and thus save the Government a fortune in pension payments.

Read that the other way around:
1. The less people smoke, the less income from tobacco and therefore none smokers will have to pay a higher tax on their income to make up the difference.
2. If the hype is right, stopping smoking will make me live longer and therefore I will collect my pension for a longer period so those none smokers will have to work harder and longer to pay my pension.

John Micallef

Oct 29th 2009, 15:47

With the black dust we are getting in our lungs because of the power station, they should start putting the health warning pictures on the Electricity meters & bills.