2011-09-30, 06:23 AM
I stumbled upon this article:
http://www.joejackson.com/smokingissue.htm
It all started when I heard about graphical warnings coming to Finland soon. In Canada these warning pictures will soon hide 75% of the cigarette packs. These little collectable yu-gi-oh cards are said to prevent teens from picking up smoking. Well the incontrovertible fact is that if anything, those pictures will disgust the hell out of not only smokers but non-smokers as well. The material in these pictures is INJURIOUSLY gruesome for especially children to see, whether it is on ground, on parents or at the shelf of a grocery store. The fact that a cut-off lungs of human or a dead body at the morgue look disgusting in a picture has NOTHING to do with smoking. Hell this is inappropriate, 15+ rated stuff. It is more than understandable that smokers won't like this. Would you like having disturbing pictures on your beer or ON YOUR CAR? In China, chinese women have one of the highest rates of lung cancer, even though only 2% of them smoke, this is cause of air pollution.
Not only are the pictures disgusting, but the question is: Are the government doing this because they care about health of the citizens?
Because based on the essay above, and various other sites, the pharmaceutical companies aren't playing it all fair. Not talking about smoking here, about medicines in general. Think of it. We have pills for depression, pills to lower cholesterol, pills and milk to boost immunity system, pills to give good vitamins. Some even say that medicines are ordered to people without actual need of it, even though some of these medicines are known to pose serious side-effects.
And hell, why would the nanny state want to protect the health of people who live unhealthy? If smokers actually will get a lung disease, all that means is less retirement to be paid by tax-payers because the survival rate of lung cancer is only 10%.
While I don't smoke so these laws don't affect me, I will have to question the freedom of a person in modern countries. We are guided way too much. Way too much. Pretty much everything is bad for you or causes cancer according to media, because they quote small junk science results that have no scientific approval. This all just to get a good selling headline.
Why can't we let the fully grown adults to do as DAMN WELL as they please? Let's say that most things won't harm you in moderation. AND THERE'S PROOF FOR THIS. Some things like smoking and alcohol pose more risk than other pasttimes, but it's simply a choice of whether to take the risk or not. You are supposed to live your life to the fullest, there's no scientific study that proves healthier life always being better life. There is ZERO need for a nanny state.
Or what do you think?
http://www.joejackson.com/smokingissue.htm
It all started when I heard about graphical warnings coming to Finland soon. In Canada these warning pictures will soon hide 75% of the cigarette packs. These little collectable yu-gi-oh cards are said to prevent teens from picking up smoking. Well the incontrovertible fact is that if anything, those pictures will disgust the hell out of not only smokers but non-smokers as well. The material in these pictures is INJURIOUSLY gruesome for especially children to see, whether it is on ground, on parents or at the shelf of a grocery store. The fact that a cut-off lungs of human or a dead body at the morgue look disgusting in a picture has NOTHING to do with smoking. Hell this is inappropriate, 15+ rated stuff. It is more than understandable that smokers won't like this. Would you like having disturbing pictures on your beer or ON YOUR CAR? In China, chinese women have one of the highest rates of lung cancer, even though only 2% of them smoke, this is cause of air pollution.
Not only are the pictures disgusting, but the question is: Are the government doing this because they care about health of the citizens?
Because based on the essay above, and various other sites, the pharmaceutical companies aren't playing it all fair. Not talking about smoking here, about medicines in general. Think of it. We have pills for depression, pills to lower cholesterol, pills and milk to boost immunity system, pills to give good vitamins. Some even say that medicines are ordered to people without actual need of it, even though some of these medicines are known to pose serious side-effects.
And hell, why would the nanny state want to protect the health of people who live unhealthy? If smokers actually will get a lung disease, all that means is less retirement to be paid by tax-payers because the survival rate of lung cancer is only 10%.
While I don't smoke so these laws don't affect me, I will have to question the freedom of a person in modern countries. We are guided way too much. Way too much. Pretty much everything is bad for you or causes cancer according to media, because they quote small junk science results that have no scientific approval. This all just to get a good selling headline.
Why can't we let the fully grown adults to do as DAMN WELL as they please? Let's say that most things won't harm you in moderation. AND THERE'S PROOF FOR THIS. Some things like smoking and alcohol pose more risk than other pasttimes, but it's simply a choice of whether to take the risk or not. You are supposed to live your life to the fullest, there's no scientific study that proves healthier life always being better life. There is ZERO need for a nanny state.
Or what do you think?