Community Chat

[sidsmom]

Do you think these new warnings on the package of cigarettes

makes a difference?

https://www.fda.gov/tobacco-products/labeling-and-warning-statements-tobacco-products/cigarette-heal...

[mom2four0418]

"Do you think these new warnings on the package of cigarettes

makes a difference?"

No, I do not-unfortunately. 

[september]

Yes.  At least, I hope so.  If a younger person sees this, wouldn’t it have an impact?

[Deb665]

Nope.  I smoked for 35 years.  For lots of those years there were warnings on the packaging that I never looked at.  Thank goodness I quit smoking 15 years ago, but it was for other reasons and had nothing to do with the warnings on the packages.  I can’t see that these will make any difference to those who are already smokers.

[this is my nic]

Unfortunately, none of the warnings will help.  People know smoking is dangerous, yet they continue.  

Cigarette ads have been banned from radio and tv for decades, but I have heard ads for the e cigarettes.  They have nicotine and the oil used can't be good for the lungs.  Why are these things being allowed on commercials? 

[GCR18]

No.  

[JaneMarple]

If the commercials with the actual patients and also people who have died from smoking hasn't helped, then the new packaging won't either.

[occasionalrain]

No. It will cause those who have friends/family who smoke with none of those afflictions to mistrust the messenger. Warnings are ineffective when they rely on fear. The texting while driving warnings haven't reduced texting among teenagers.

[Kachina624]

No label warming is going to stop those who are truly addicted. I quit cold turkey in 1985 because I thought they were becoming too expensive. Good thing, I would have had a heart attack if I could have seen what they charge now

[x Hedge]

   nope

i think its a wrong approach for most people. 

Used to respect the simple warning statement they put on cigarette packages. But this comes across as manipulation & scare tactics. If I were still a smoker I'd have contempt for this approach.

I smoked heavily for years, knew exactly what I needed to stop smoking, and it was different from the next person, who was different from the next ...

I just stopped. Just like that. Just as I knew I could under the "right" circumstances I had in mind.

Most smokers i know contemplate cessation, but have reasons to continue smoking. Thanks to lying ads for Nicorette-type products overly hyping up how hard it is, dramatizing how traumatic and miserable it feels to stop smoking, my brother is now afraid to try to stop.