Freedom?
That's a fuckin laugh!
Look what happened here!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_(cigarette)
You must be PC, pious, sanctimonious and yadda da yadda.
But if you are perceived to be taking the piss...
My workplace parking garage cannot manage to clear the ice and snow to protect us from falling, but has the nerve to proclaim a rule that parkers are not permitted to smoke inside their cars. (I'm not a smoker, but this drives me crazy.)
As a smoker, I can honestly say that I never notice the words and pictures on the packet, however the government anti-smoking ads on the telly do cause me a bit of a twinge.
It's the same twinge I get when watching the Car Tax ads and the telly tax ads, ("We know where you live, sunshine!").
You know, that twinge you get when you remember;
"Those bastards are stealing my money to pay for that crap!"
What fools these moralisers be...
I actually like some of the pictures.
I had one on my packet the other day, of a bloke on a mortuary slab.
Trouble was he looked like he was in the sauna and waiting for a stimulating massage!
Go ahead, knock yourselves out, I'm scared shitless as you can see!
I'm also sickened by the gruesome pictures of rotten teeth and decayed gums.
Did I mention that I'm Australian ?
Yes, you guessed it, as is often the case, our moralisers copied the British example.
Natalie, I take you remember "Death Cigarettes", which used to have a skull and crossbones logo on the front as a deliberate, fuck-the-nanny staters marketing ploy. I think the sellers got the idea from a comedy routine by Bill Hicks or Dennis Leary.
It was Denis Leary.
"They want the whole front of the pack to be the warning. They want a skull and a crossbones on the front of the pack, and call them Tumors! I bet you get a tumor as soon as you light them up! Smokers will be lining up around the block to get them!"
Not that I listened to No Cure for Cancer all the time back when I smoked or anything like that...
I dont think people read my posts anymore, sob!
Did you click on the link on my first post Johnathan? ;-)
RAB: it didn't work when you first posted it, but it did now. Good one!
I enjoyed reading your thoughts on this issue. One of our members made an interesting post about how smokers in general are helping the anti-tobacco lobby by dividing ourselves and making it easier to defeat us. The post is titled, "Divided We Fall: The Self Segregation of Smokers". You can read it here: http://pipesmagazine.com/python/pipe-news/divided-we-fall-the-self-segregation-of-smokers/