So the FDA is going to put some really graphic pictures on the top half of every cigarette pack, including pictures of cancer ridden lungs, rotting teeth, and a corpse. Oh, and this guy:
Graphic!
I don’t really get this one. Maybe smoking made him bald. I guess you luck out if you get this pack because instead of staring at death you only have to look at dour baldo.
Isn’t this a really weird thing? The government is doing everything it can to stop people from smoking sans actually banning cigarettes. How long until the warning is “WARNING: Smoking cigarettes can get you arrested for smoking.”? Except that the government gets a ton of tax money from cigarette sales, and you know the one thing government hates more than smoking is giving up tax revenue. So it’s all rather schizophrenic, and I don’t expect a happy end to it any day soon.
So how much of health risk does something have to be before the government decides they have to warn us against it? Like are we soon going to see pictures of obese people on Big Mac boxes with the warning “WARNING: Eating this may make you a big fatty.” Though there is some stuff I wouldn’t mind a warning label on. Like on the next presidential ballot, there can be a picture of a long unemployment line with the warning “WARNING: Voting for Obama is the same as hating America.”
What do you want a graphic warning label on? Best answer wins…
HIGH PRAISE!
I need a graphic warning on liberal websites that says something like, “WARNING! The stupid on here will make you teh CRAZY!” A picture of Keith Olbermann should help drive the point home.
“WARNING: Twitter that it will make you teh ghey!”
Ryan Dunn could have used one on his spedometer, “Speeds exceeding 100 mph may cause serious injury or death”
too soon?
Voting machines. “WARNING: Voting for incumbents may ruin your country.” With a picture of Barney Fwank.
Well then, there should be a giant mural painted on the side of the White House stating, “WARNING: Electing a Marxist liberal can cause damage to your health and welfare, as well as that of your children.” I mean, really, given the choice between the two I’d rather take my chances with possibly getting lung cancer.
Wimpy, wimpy, wimpy. When they announced this, I thought we might get something entertaining, like the Brits have had for years, or even better, the pictures that the Aussies plaster onto packs of smokes:
Aussie Smoke Warnings
As I recall, smokes in Australia have pictures front and back so smokers can be doubly convinced to quit.
This one is my favorite:
Evil Eye of Smoking
The second would be good for a horror flick. Do I need to warn you that the pictures are of high grossosity? I used to be a smoker, and this crap makes me pine for the days when I was a happy smoker. If I were to start again, I’d make it my goal to collect all the pictures like so many Pokeman cards.
Exit thought: If smoking is so dangerous, why can’t we put warning labels on liberals?
Please disunmoderate my comment, Herr Ober Frank J. I fear I have gone over the link limit again. That limit would be any whole, rational and real number greater than one.
What’s the difference between “praise” & “high praise”? Is frnak j promoting the illicit use of drugs? Is there such a thing as “low praise”?
It occurs to me that to properly disclose all of the side effects of Obama one would need the services of one of those speed talkers that give the side effects at the end of the pharmaceutical advertisments.
I’d just like a little advanced warning when Obama’s image or voice is presented on radio or TV. You know, like five-second countdown clock with a voice that says: “Warning: Obama: In 5… 4… 3… 2… 1…” It would give me a chance to change channels or hit the mute button.
“You know who you remind me of? Garfield!”
Brother, that’s low.
Warning!!! Cigarettes and voting Democrat : Harder to quit than a gay cowboy, so don’t even start.
Warning, voting democrat can cause inflation, high taxes, recession, depression, wars,high national debt, welfare dependency, loss of constitutional rights, bad breath, and buckets appearing on the president’s head. Put that sticker in voting booth. It is truth in advertising.
I think the Obama gov’t should start a campaign to inform the populace of the dangers of Mother’s Milk. I’m not sure where you’d put the warning label but that’s for a committee to decide. You see, Mother’s Milk is what’s known as a ‘gate-way’ drink. There is not one alcoholic who did not start off drinking in this socially acceptable manor.
I’d like to see someone run against Barney Frank with signs of a guy, pants around ankles bent over and a red circle with a slash through it!
We should put pictures of Rosie on all fast food!
Picture of Anthony Wiener on all condom boxes!
Picture of Anthony Wiener as you login to Twitter with a warning that Twitter makes you ghey…ghey…ghey!
Picture of Hillary Clinton pops up before any porn site loads with the words “I have my eyes on you”!
And if quitting smoking is going to make me look like that loser…I’m going to keep doing it! I’ve quit drinking so I only have this one vice left! I might as well go out and shoot myself!
Yay!!! I have received my HIgh Praise through being Moderated!!! Excellent!
I’m just happy to see the “Basic Instructions” guy seems to have branched out:
http://basicinstructions.net/
To be posted on IMAO: Warning to liberals, socialists, commies, red-diaper doper babies and feminazis-reading Frank J’s website will cause your head to explode.
Actually, that would be a GOOD thing. Ok, no warning for them.
WARNING: High-fructose corn syrup and/or genetically modified corn and/or soybeans is in damn near every product in America because the government enjoys being hypocritical. If you don’t like it, tough.
All the people who voted for Obama should have to wear an ‘I voted for Stupid’ t-shirt.
Anyone who calls themselves ‘progressive’ should have something tatooed on their foreheads so you know not to talk to them.
Most lefties actually label themselves, because many still have Obama ’08 bumper stickers on their cars. Or teh co-exist ones.
Put a picture of a Reaver on the box set of Firefly. Warning: do not read account of why this series was cancelled unless you want to get so angry you look like this.
Pictures of aborted fetuses in Planned Parenthood clinics:
“Warning! Abortions are fatal to your children”
Somebody please think of the children!
“WARNING” Voting may cause politicians.
On a pistol:
WARNING: Pointing loaded weapon to temple and pulling trigger has been determined by the State of California to cause death or injury.
On a can of corn:
WARNING: Even though corn is healthy, attempting to eat it before opening the can may cause injury to teeth.
In bars:
WARNING: Going home with someone you picked up here after last call may cause depression, nausea, and a severe case of WTF? in the morning.
On Twitter:
WARNING: “d” NOT “@”
Someone should talk to Harvey….this has all the makings of a new LOL series. LOLWARNZ.
Sorry, this was about graphic label warnings. So how about a picture of your fiance’s mother/father with the text:
WARNING: Me in 20-30 years.
The state of California should be required to post warning signs at all entries to the state, and also at the gates at airports (facing disembarking passengers), saying “Warning: Living in this state may cause you to disregard all facts and experience in favor of implementing crackpot ideas.”
Oh, it was supposed to be graphic. Add pictures of Barbara Boxer, Nancy Pelosi, Fortney “Pete” Stark, Maxine Waters, and Henry Waxman.
So if you collect all 9 do you like win a free pack?
We need warnings on public schools in blue states.
WARNING:The New York Times news is old, biased, and causes Global Warming!
Warning Will Robinson…aliens approaching!
WARNING:
Quitting smoking will cut tax revenues,
so put off quitting as long as you can spare a lung.
Smokers are an easy target for outrageous taxes and crushing regulations on personal freedoms. Based on bogus science about “second-hand smoke”.
I quit smoking after 30 someodd years. cold fecking turkey.
eat my ass taxman.
What do you want a graphic warning label on?
How about abortion clinics? The ideal solution would be to require the woman look at an ultrasound of her unborn child before terminating it’s life, but in lieu of that, I’d be o.k. if the just requiring all [un]Planned Parenthood clinic’s reception areas and waiting rooms to display multiple jars of aborted fetuses pickled in formaldehyde.
D’oh. Now I read through the thread and saw that Bob in Feenicks beat me in post #22. Sorry Bob. What can I say? Great minds think alike…
I used to think cigarettes were addictive. I guess the picture of the quitter proves they’re not. I think the FDA has just convinced me to take up smoking.
Do you get a free T-shirt if you quit?
next, they’ll mandate that cigarette companies make every pack out of dog excrement.
I’m not a smoker, but this is just stupid. If there’s a REAL public health hazard here, BAN them…heck, they’re going after cars for CO2 emissions….well what about cigarettes? That’s almost PURE CO2 coming out of that thing! Shouldn’t they at least mandate some kind of catalytic converter to “save the environment?” while allowing themselves to continue to help themselves to all that delicious tobacco tax revenue?
How about putting a picture of Obama smoking on the warning label with the caption “’nuff said”
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