Familie håber dødsleje billede får rygere til at stoppe
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Familien af en cancer v ictim hvem der figurerede i en ny serie af advarsler på cigaretpakker håber på et billede graf af hendes spinkle krop på sit dødsleje vil afskrække folk fra at tænde op.
I en plan afsløret torsdag, Ottawa er at udrulle større og mere grafisk advare heder i en fornyet indsats for at motivere rygere til at støde ud og afholder en ikke-rygning ERS, især teenagere, fra at tage den vane.
Tobak virksomheder vil være gældende d for at vise en etiket - der are16 i alt - der vil tage sig 75 procent af hver pakke. Den aktuelle vandskravene rement er 50 pct.
Mens etiketterne vil indeholde et større udvalg af captio ns og fotos, en af de mest nøgterne er et billede taget af 42-årige Barb Ta rbox kun få dage før hendes død i 2003.
Tarbox, en velkendt anti-tobak crusa der fra Edmonton, døde af kræft efter et helt livs rygning. Hendes mand Pat en nd datter Mackenzie betragter hende indgå i advarslerne en fortsættelse af h is arv.
"(Mærket har) et godt chok faktor til det. Hvis det stød mig, at det kommer til at chokere nogle få mennesker, "Pat Tarbox fortalt CTV. "Forhåbentlig stød dem til at holde op og / eller ikke starter."
Mens kamp med kræft, Tarbox brugte f FSLUTTENDE måneder af hendes liv, tilskynde folk til ikke at bruge tobaksvarer, directin g meget af hendes indsats rettet mod unge.
Mackenzie Tarbox sagde, at hun er glad for t han foto af hendes mor er at levere sådan et vigtigt budskab til canadiere.
"Der er en vis stolthed der, hendes budskab vil være på disse fotos, og det ikke bare stoppe, når hun døde, "sagde hun.
Tarbox s foto er ledsaget med følgende billedtekst: "Det er det at dø af lungekræft ligner. Barb Tarbox døde 42 af lungekræft forårsaget af rygning. "
For at sikre de nye advarsler er effektive, har de været omskrevet med enklere sprog og præsenteres med farver og grafik intende d at drive budskabet ud til folk.
"Canadiske og international forskning har vist, at være effektiv, skal sundhedsadvarsler på tobakspakninger være mærkbar og memorab le. De skal også være troværdig og relevant, "sundhedsminister Leona Aglukkaq fortalte reportere i Ottawa.
Aglukkaq sagde advarsler vises på cigaretpakninger, så snart som muligt, og de vil blive roteret at holde rygerne afstemt til meddelelsen.
Cr itics argumentere for de nuværende advarselsmærkaterne har mistet deres effektivitet, fordi y er ikke blevet ændret i 10 år. Canada var det første land til at sætte grafiske advarsler på ci garette emballage, hvilket resulterer i mange lande følger trop.
Garfield Mahood, den administrerende direktør for de ikke-rygernes rettigheder Association, siger, at reklamerne er meget cost-ef fektive, og de fungerer godt.
"Det behøver ikke koste skatteyderne en krone, industrien absorberer omkostningerne i forbindelse med Chan ge af design, som ærligt talt er ikke stor, "Mahood fortalte CTV News Channel.
En talsmand for ufuldkom IAL tobak sagde det faktum, at regeringen tager kontrol over 75 procent af mærkning på pakningerne, er misbrug.
Aglukkaq sagde, at regeringen har forpligtet sig at hjælpe mere end fem millioner canadiere op med at ryge, en vane, som dræber en anslået 37.000 mennesker i Canada hvert år.
Ottawa ønsker også at forhindre unge folk fra at begynde at ryge.
Ud over de nye advarsler, den Gover digheder er ved at indføre en telefonisk hotline og websteder, at rygere kan bruge til at ge t oplysninger om, hvordan man kvitter smøgerne.
Med en rapport fra farvefjernsynsmodtager Calgary Karen Owen
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Bev
Sikke et spild af penge .. det govt skal hjælpe røgen rs ved at give dem de ryger hjælpemidler de har brug for ved at reducere priserne på nicod ERM patches og om at gøre produkter som CHAMPIX billigere .. at være en ryger selv billeder af mennesker, der dør eller grim mund skud en går ikke at HELP.people afslutte ... At give hjælper .. få greb regeringen pple. Vågner fanden op
Staerkt SKATTEMÆSSIGE Rygere
Det er dumt og unaturligt at suge giftig røg ind i din krop. Ingen i deres rig ht sind, der ser på det på en fornuftig ansvarlig måde nogensinde ville tage op sm oking. Vi er nødt til at befri vores samfund af denne onde ting. Rygere skal betale via næsen, når de køber tobak på grund af sundhedspleje koster at passe dem senere.
Concerned_Citizen
Placering grafiske billeder på cigaretpakker går t o Hjælp folk holder op med at ryge omkring samt grafiske billeder på demonstrant har skilte fremme folk til at vælge ikke at få en abort. Det er latterligt! Hvis regeringen var overhovedet beskæftiger sig med sundhed rygere, ville de forbyde produktet. De c Hoose ikke at forbyde produktet, som de gør millioner og atter millioner af dollars off rygere. Folk, der ikke er afhængige af cigaretter har ikke noget problem at køre munden om at forbyde rygere fra vores sundhedssystem. Det samme sundhedsstatus hedssystem, at rygerne betaler for. Det samme sundhedssystem, at vores Gover digheder kører samtidig med at indsamle millioner af dollars fra smokers.We er alle nu opmærksomme på, hvor farligt og hvor meget rygning påvirker alle. Hvad med i stedet for af bruger millioner på ny emballage, bruger vi pengene til at hjælpe rygere med omkostningerne ved at holde op.
Ivan H
Jeg tror ikke større billeder, vil ikke gøre den gennemsnitlige ryger op med at ryge, er det må være op til den person, rygestop, sikre, at det kan gøre at tænke over det bu t, der er bare det, de tænker over det så lyse op en anden, så efter min mening, er det jus t en anden måde regeringen at bruge penge, at de ikke behøver at, tobak er lovligt, bare ligesom øl er, kan u ikke se øl virksomheder lægge billeder af ulykker på grund af alkohol på thei r sager.
susan Brown
Virkeligheden er disse annoncer gøre arbejdet. På grund af disse annoncer, som jeg qu det at ryge et par år siden, og jeg har aldrig haft det bedre i mit liv. Så for dem, der er i de NIAL ... opgive det ... rygning dræber ... bundlinjen! Både min moster og min mor døde af lungekræft på grund af rygning, og der er abs olutely ikke noget værre end at se mennesker dør af lungekræft. Det er det værste! Således, mellem vedtagelsen af mine kære, og disse annoncer .... jeg er røgfrit, og jeg føler stor 
tændes
Jeg ser nyhederne regul Arly, og hvis der er én ting, der er et givet mønster med regeringen er "penge", hvis de ville få folk e til at stoppe med at ryge jeg synes, det er simpelt stoppe med at sælge dem. Jeg ryger, men hvis de ikke var der til at købe, naturligvis Jeg ville ikke, hvad de gjorde, var det dobbelte af prisen, hmmmm jeg spekulerer på, hvad det om "penge". tage marijuna for eksempel hvis det cou ld være rentable, ville de sikkert sælge det, men det ville være svært at sælge det l egally og ikke lade folk dyrke det, kan jeg ikke forestille mig at der er en masse tobak avlere ud Ther, de kantet markedet, hvorfor? det handler om "penge". så sætte etiketter på, hvis det gør ya føle sig bedre, men efter min mening nogle hvordan jeg tror, det gamle mægtige dollaren vil stadig være første prioritet, gotta kærlighed det ud, ved den måde, hvor alle etiketter til fastfood etablering, Hmmmmm bare en tanke.
Jonathan Coote
Jeg er overrasket og ked af dybt, at Canada p UTS så meget enfaces på cigaretrygning og tilføje advarsler, mens complet Ely ignorere gentagne forsøg på at vise advarselsmærker på alkohol. Jeg blev født med Føtalt Alkohol Spectrum Disorder, forårsagede en uhelbredelig handicap udelukkende af ma tern drikke under graviditeten. Der er ingen kur mod alkohol skader før IW som født. Skader på mit nervesystem, min hjerne, mit immunforsvar, konstante smerter, listen fortsætter. No cure, men 100% kan forebygges ved ikke at drikke under graviditeten . Jeg venter til den dag, alkohol er advarsler.
MEL
Jeg ville elske at vide, hvis Regeringen er så fast besluttet på at få folk til at stoppe med at ryge, hvorfor de ikke går efter tobakken virksomheder?? hvorfor har vi brug for at blive behandlet som vi gør noget ulovligt en nd også, hvor mange mennesker, der arbejder for regeringen, er rygerens? De vil endda indrømme det? eller not.bottom line, stoppe straffe forbrugerne, alt hvad vi gør, er at gå til en butik og købe et lovligt produkt.
Sandra
OMG Hvad vil regeringen gøre, hvis alle qu sin rygning, vil de ikke have penge fra skatter. Jeg tror ikke disse billeder vil gøre en diffence. Jeg holdt op med at ryge, så jeg kunne få et barn, og hvis det ikke var f eller det faktum, at min mand ikke kan lide det jeg ville gå tilbage til rygning i en hea rtbeat, dont billederne generer mig noget.
Også hvorfor dont vi sætte billeder af lever med skrumpelever på øl og liqour flasker også. Drink er dårligt for.
marlin
Markedsobservatoriet Kongen spørgsmål har ingen relevans overhovedet til den mexicanske narkokarteller. At foreslå sådan er latterligt. Det ville være en helt logisk tilgang til at tage cigaretter ud af markedet og gøre dem tilgængelige, til eksisterende rygere ved recept only.The ke y her er at stoppe udbredelsen af rygning og hvert skridt til dato har været ineffect Ive.
Trevor
Regeringen vil have folk til at stoppe med at ryge, men de prale af millioner af skattekroner, som de bringer ind fra cigaretter. Det ville være som someo ne eje en slikbutik, og de fortæller folk, at du ikke skal spise slik, fordi det er dårligt for tænder, men th ey stadig vil have dig til at komme ind og købe slik, så de kan tjene penge. For at gøre en lang historie kort. Hvem er den Govenmet tror, de narrer!
chris
Ja, jeg er også ryger. Min suggetion for regeringen er at give en "rygestop-enhed" til folk for FR EE. Så bare måske, ville nogle være villige til at holde op og i det lange løb, kunne det bidrage til at mindske trækket på den medicinske system.
Liza
Jeg tror, at regeringerne bliver og handler dumme og latterlige nogle mennesker er vilje til at ryge og t hat er deres frihed blot nogle af jer ikke kan lide, at hvorfor skulle de, der betaler for de cigaretter at se noget der ikke behageligt Hvis regeringen virkelig vedrører menneskers sundhed de kan forbyde cigaretter, men vi ved alle, det er umuligt, fordi det er de penge fra, så jeg sagde nok det er nok
og tho for sig ikke-rygere har du frihed, men også give rygere noget plads
Tracy
Når agai n vores regering ønsker at spilde vores penge. Jeg tror, det vil være spild. Folk er kommer hærdet eller endda fascineret til billederne, efter et stykke tid. Som mange andre B EMÆRKNINGER har sagt. Hvorfor har regeringen ikke beskæftige sig mere med druk og drivi ng? Jeg tror, det er et større problem, da nogle få mennesker, der har en cigaret.
St ef
Hvordan er omkring en etiket med "Dette er, hvor dine skattepenge gå, når du ryger" (G8-topmødet med kunstig sø baggrund) Etiketterne gøre ingenting, uddannelse, uddannelse, uddannelse ..... starter derhjemme!
Nikki
Sara: Rolig ... Jeg er bare en sygeplejerske ikke en "gud". Jeg gjorde ikke noget personligt at gøre sundhedsvæsenet så slemt som det er ... sheesh.Sounds som du har fået dine egne spørgsmål. Min kommentar kommer f ra alle de patienter, jeg ser døende hverdag på grund af rygning.
glen
tror det kan falde salget med 2%. grafiske billeder har været omkring et stykke tid. men i det mindste 40% af solgte cigaretter er smuglergods.
steve
Robert i Courtice.
Tror du, pe Ople der drikker for forgiftning på et regulatr grundlag bør forbydes fra hea LTH pleje system? Du har hørt om leverkræft og lignende har du ikke? de er store pletter på sundhedssystemet også , Eller hvad med fedt og fede mennesker, der halstørklædet ned måltider ligesom KFC double down og andre fastfood, bør de forbydes fra sundhedssystemet, når de dev Elop diabetese? eller hvad med folk der er skyld i en ulykke og skade t hemselfs bør de ikke få lægehjælp, da det var deres egen dumme fejl fo r sige hastighedsoverskridelser eller sms'e under kørslen? Jeg har set 4 slægtninge dør af kræft, ikke én af dem lægge pres på sundhedssystemet at nægte behandling, undtagen en IV p ain dræber den sidste dag eller to af deres liv men jeg har set folk tømme systemet for thousan ds af dallars gør dumme unødvendig ting som skateboard ned ad en flyvning o f trapper og lider alvorligt hovedtraume. han stadig draing systemet og vil for resten af sit liv! skal vi skære ham også?
Cindy
Desværre lever vi i en verden, w her folk bare ligeglade sig selv eller de mennesker omkring dem. Forældre der røg omkring deres børn (og dermed gøre barnet en anden hånd ryger en nd øge chancerne for at få dem begynder at ryge). Unge voksne at få d runk hver weekend. Samfundet spise mere dårligt og øge deres vægt .... mennesker er ikke gra teful for at være sund og i live, så de ødelægger sig selv. Derfor al den comm forældre hos de mennesker på denne side at sige, at se et billede ikke påvirker dem. Skam dig . Ja, drikke og tage stoffer, og over at spise er også afhængighed ... Jeg er ikke enig med nogen af dem, og som en 27-årig kvinder, jeg har gjort hverken det ene ... fordi jeg elsker at være sund og elsker liv for meget til at skade mig selv. Denne tilføjelse forsøger at fokusere på rygning ... fordi vi ikke skal gøre det, og det dræber. Hvis bare verden kunne bekymre sig om værdien af et liv ..... (Ps ... ja selv en rask person co uld dør af sygdommen .... hvorfor ikke prøve at mindske din chance?)
Anonm
De advarsler ikke gøre noget. Ingen mo re end at fortælle nogen, at "rygning kan dræbe dig" eller "være forsigtig med, hvad du spiser, for meget fedt og det vil blokere dine blodårer". Jeg holdt op med at ryge over 4 måneder siden, og det havde intet at gøre med th etiketter. Min mor døde af kræft 4 år siden, og som slet ikke stoppe mig. Jeg har 3 små børn og en mand, der er en ikke ryger, har andthat ikke stoppe mig. Det stoppede mig fra at ryge? Mit ønske ikke længere røg. Intet mere. Jeg røg i 14 år, ikke fordi jeg ønskede at - Men fordi jeg var afhængig. Det er kun 4 korte måneder, men jeg kan ikke forestille sig at gå tilbage til rygning. Jeg elsker at være røg fri.
Hvis Ottawa ønsker at deterr folk fra at ryge, her er en idé: gøre dem ulovligt! Den Regeringen er så hyklerisk "Dont ryge!, men vi plejer at forbyde dem eller noget, fordi så gen sats så mange penge for os, "... det er ulækkert. Enten er man for eller imod. Ikke i midten.
paul
Hmmmm, 37.000 ppl die e ACH år fra ciggy butts.And stadig ikke en eneste person er død af Smokin g CANNABIS, sumpthin rong med dette billede EH! Jus hvad GW Harpers Gov gøre Bout er NADA! Han ønsker at bygge flere fængsler, blev ukrudt sat her ved en højere kraft, , Sprut og asprins menneskeskabte.
Ralph Eddy i New Brunswick
for gud skyld! er eve rybody sindssyg? JUST stoppe med at sælge dem, og problemet er overstået! Hvis jeg nogensinde til at vinde t h Loto Jeg bruger masser af mine penge på stoppe med at sælge cigaretter CAMPANE.
Reece
@ Robert ...... «den udtrykkelige advarsler gøre noget for at stoppe med at ryge, det er bare "feel good" fluff.Education er det eneste svar. Hver ryger bør forbydes fra det offentlige sundhedssystem. "- Ja, og efter at vi kan gå efter de mennesker, der spiser for meget øl, mad, og som forurener veje w ed biler at gøre alle syge, og selvfølgelig, at kun ville give DIG til at høste de benifits af et socialt program, som de fleste mennesker plejer at kvalificere sig til og derfor fritaget for at betale ind som uundgåeligt ville føre til en fuldstændig kollaps le nder du klare dig selv.
Toro
Godt gået. De bør nu begynde at gøre samme med alle alkoholholdige drikkevarer
Marge
Reaktion på Nikki;
Vi har betalt vores skat godt enou gh til fortjener bedre behandling fra sundhedsvæsenet. Vi betalte $ 2 en pakke 25 yrs siden vi nu betale 12 $ gør det matematik og dig selv en tjeneste og komme ud af helbrede thcare feltet cuz jeg ville hade at have dig hjælpe mig med en holdning sådan. Gå hjælp de gamle fo LKS i et hjem eller noget, hvor de kunne sætte pris på dine tjenester. Sad der h SUNDHED care 'professionelle' kan kritisere de patienter, som dette. tsk tsk
Will
Tid til involk den 7. og 8. frihedsrettigheder: 7. Friheden til at tænke på din egen forbandede virksomhed. 8. frihed til at gå t o helvede på din egen måde. Folk træffe valg, nogle er gode nogle er dårlige. Dette er deres perogative. Alle andre kan passe deres egen busness. Og NEJ jeg er ikke så moker.
BJ
Med en # af de seneste ulykker dødsfald som følge af TTC betyder det vi skal ikke ride TTC længere. ? lyder det for mig.
Marge
Re; Me kommentar-Du har fuldstændig ret og er på noget. Lad os gøre det, gøre den offentlige se, hvad spirituskørsel gør at ligene af de mennesker, der bliver dræbt i dem. Det ville være en stor deterrant for enhver dum person, der beslutter at køre beruset, i det mindste rygere skade sig selv alene og ikke hele samfund, de lever i, når de lyser. Godt set! Love det mig .... vej at gå, jeg elsker, at en. Jeg er ryger også, og har lært mine børn anderledes, kan jeg ikke sætte dem i Harms måde en nd har et røgfrit hjem og bil. Addiction er ved at blive mærket en sygdom nu PEO PLE, vi har brug for hjælp ikke foredrag eller "uddannelse" fra groteske fotoets.
kunst
Anden konservativ flip-flop.
Richard i New Brunswick
Jeg røg i 35 år - lidt mindre end en pakke om dagen. I 50 år gik prisen fro m dumt at latterligt med ekstra skatter. Jeg besluttede at holde op. Der varede omkring 3 m onths Og så blev jeg tilbage på det. En dag jeg beregnes jeg havde tilbragt kontantprisen på en helt ny Honda Accord på cigaretter i løbet af min levetid, og der gik fra latterligt til j ust dum. Jeg besluttede at holde op. Denne gang, i stedet for kold tyrker, jeg gør nogle få regler. Regel # 1 - ingen rygning nogensinde indendørs - kontor eller hjemme. At klippe mit forbrug i halv straks . Og fra en halv pakke om dagen til noget, var ikke let, men det var meget lettere tha n fra en fuld pakke til ingenting. Som andre har sagt, kan du gøre det ... men du har virkelig lyst til det. Otherwi SE glemmer forsøger at holde op. Med disse nye "collectable" pakker, starte et kort swap klub med din døende Frie nds ligesom du gjorde med baseball / hockey kort ... kan lige så godt have det sjovt på vej ud.
Dan IEL Fra Toronto
@ Mig, ok nu er det er bare latterligt, nu du gerne billeder p Utting blodige Gorey scene er, hvad mennesker med brækkede ben? Biler viklet omkring telefon pol es? Ikke alle mennesker, der drikker alkohol, drikker det for at få dumme og derefter foretage den mo st idiotisk valg af kørsel i påvirket tilstand. Det er bare en manglende dømmekraft der sker måde ofte. Rygning dræber mere end Stupid Alkoholikere nogensinde ville.
Jumbo ryger
Sikke en farce. Bare gøre cigaretter større og mere grafisk. Så store de vil ikke passe ind i den gennemsnitlige suicidal sutte rygere munden. Måske ville afskrække SMO kers. Gøre dem så store, skal du oral kirurgi til at passe den i munden! Lad os finde ud af, hvem real ly, virkelig ønsker at ryge 'em. Regeringerne 'fifle' med skatter, skræmmende billeder. Dernæst vil de være at fortælle dig, at BB pistol kommer til at s Hoot andens øje.
TG-Winnipeg
Selv om jeg støtter, at anti-rygning idé bliver ført hende e, Im også med de andre. Det gør ingenting, og betyder intet for rygere. Det plejer at gøre dem mere tilbøjelige til at holde op. Den bedste fremgangsmåde jeg mener er nødvendigt for at b taget e er at holde donkraft prisen op mere og mere. Jeg kender folk stadig købe dem , Men for unge (såsom teenagere), det gør det uoverkommelige for dem, en d derfor tvinger dem til at skære ned eller skære den vane helt, før det Becom es en afhængighed.
Zack i BC til at Robert
Se det største problem med hvad du siger er sparke folk ud af sundhedssystemet, der betaler for systemet og en lo t mere ved at købe smøger. Har du ikke relise, hvis du skulle bare forbyde ryger, t hey'll hæve skatterne andre steder til at betale for sundhedsvæsenet, og hvad der ellers går ind i et underskud. Så før du går skyde din mund ud, hvordan om at gøre nogle res earch.
Wrex
Kære Non-Smokers: Selv om det er godt og godt for dig ønsker at forbyde cigaretter, eller r efuse rygere den frie sundhedsvæsen i Canada, tygge på det et stykke tid - der gør dig tynd k finansierer det meste af det, ved at købe cigaretter? Cigaretter, som vi alle ved, ar e beskattes kraftigt - og regeringen elsker disse skattemyndigheder dollars. Som andre har sagt, ville jeg lik e for at se en form for advarsel om alkohol så godt - hvad det gør ved en lever, hvis det er misbrugte, horrible nedbrud resu lting fra spirituskørsel, mv (advarselsmærkater på cigaretter ved w ay ignoreres fuldstændigt, og spild af tid, btw) - men hvis du vil mål cigaretter, du bedre t Arget alkohol også - de er begge afhængighedsskabende stoffer, og fortjener stor opmærksomhed.
F.Kr. i BC
Vælg din poi søn. Mine er rygning. Andre mennesker vil vælge alkohol, medicin eller fødevarer at dæmme op for th EIR cravings. Jeg drikker ikke, tager stoffer og jeg ser min kost og motion regelmæssigt. Dette er min c VALG. Nogle mennesker vil fungere køretøjer, når deres fakulteter er deminished BEC ause deres giftstoffer. Andre mennesker vil klage til luftfartsindustrien becaus e deres fedt et $ $, vil ikke passe ind i sædet og tvunget til at betale for den ekstra plads. Diabetes healthc er omkostningerne i Canada vil toppen $ 6,6 B i år i Canada. Sætte billeder på en PAC k wont gøre nogen forskel. Jeg kan ikke se det mere. Men vær fair over for alle wit h advarselsmærkater / billeder på vin og øl flasker, chokoladebarer, fastfood pac kaging.
old_dave
Er der ingen, udover mig selv, der ikke ser den typiske regeringen mentale hed her? Cigaretterne er gemt væk fra offentlighedens blik folk! Ved den tid, yo u se de nye billeder, har du allerede købt pakken! jeg for en, vil ikke vise nogen af mine ikke -Ryger venner og kolleger nogen af de nye billeder, medmindre de køber en røg fra me.It er min egen personlige oprør.
KristyThibodeau
Det er forbudt at ryge i biler alligevel, og At drikke og køre, og folk er stadig gør it.May være, at regeringen bør c miste ned tobak selskabets og, Spar penge på noget andet, som gør nye fængsel huse for folk der kan lide at drikke og køre!
SLN
Problemet med at sparke rygeren s slukke for sundhedsvæsenet (som nogle plakater der tyder på) er, at det er en rygmarvsreaktion reactio n kan man stille det spørgsmål, hvad gør vi stop? Vi bliver nødt til også at sparke ud drikker, stoffet misbrugere, må dem, der spiser for mange burgere og for få grøntsager, der ikke overholder lægens ordrer, hensynsløs chauffører, faldskærmsudspringere, etc etc etc. Vores sundhedssystem ikke virker på den måde, og hvis vi ønsker at begynde at plukke og vælge hvem vi dækker vi snart ligne USA. Ingen t Hanks!
Marker
Som ryger kan jeg ærligt sige, at eventuelle ændringer foretaget af PAC kages vil have ringe eller ingen effekt på mig, eller nogen anden ryger, ja jeg kender dens ba d for mig, men jeg ser på en masse ppl jeg kender, der har op med at ryge kun at se dem udvikler astma eller KOL. Hvorfor ikke regeringen bruge pengene på mere nyttige ting, l IKE sundhedspleje, uddannelse, jobtræning, nej de vil hellere spilde den på middelmådig BSI alvorligt g et afkrydset på ppl der aldrig har røget en dag i deres liv, fortæller mig at qu det .. pas din egen virksomhed, er jeg enig med 1 person på her .. start sætte graf ic billeder på alkohol flasker af udrangerede køretøjer, ser jeg mere og mere ppl i denne cou nForsøg dø af dødsulykker på grund af spirituskørsel end nogen rygning en cigaret ... dine prioriteter er på det forkerte sted.
Peter R
LoLyeah højre oh godt børnene wi ll har nu nye samlekort ligesom sidste time.If de er så bekymrede hvorfor er de legal.Remember annoncens om kemikalier i ryger? Er jeg den eneste, der tænkte: "Hvorfor regeringen ling tillader disse dødelige kemikalier, der anvendes i cigaretter i første omgang! ", de vil aldrig give op, men fordi jo mere mister de højere afgifter vil være kunder, de miste for mange penge, hver gang de taler ryger ind i en ikke smoker.Right nu t hey tjene flere penge på cigaretter, så virksomheden, der gør dem i navnet af sundhedsydelser som de skærer hver year.so hvor er de penge hen??
Robert i Co urtice
De eksplicitte advarsler gøre noget for at stoppe med at ryge, er det bare "feel good" fluff.Education er den eneste answer.Every rygning is bør forbydes fra den offentlige sundhed system.Why bør resten af os til at betale for rygerens stupidity.Product ansvar er et andet område, vi er nødt til at investigate.It tvunget auto virksomheder til at overholde sundheds-og sikkerhedsstandarder, hvorfor er tobak compnaies anderledes? Åh, wait.Should tobaksindustrien farten brød, regeringen ville løs for meget i skat revenue.Right, får jeg det nu.
Ian Ottawa
Min mor røget to pakker en dag med Kool eller Craven A. Hun sagde, hun ville stoppe, når cigaretter nået en dollar. Hendes fem børn gik uden mælk og brød, men ikke en dag gik th at hun gik uden hendes afhængighed. Den eneste måde hun stoppe var efter hun died.Emph yzema og rør hele huset weren'ta afskrækkende enten. Jeg tvivler på billederne ville have h elped.I 'har aldrig og vil aldrig ryge, og folk, der gør, bare ikke få det. Og vil ikke. Lad dem har vores sundhedsvæsen suffe r på grund af det. Så vidt jeg kan se det, hvis du lider af rygning sygdomme derefter Y ou betale for dem i sidste ende selv.
Mig
Tja ...... det er fint mig. Og jeg er smoker.But jeg ville blive meget glad, hvis billeder af dødbringende accide NTS forårsaget af alkoholmisbrug vil også blive sat på bottles.Each år omkring 15,000 mennesker dør af alkoholmisbrug relaterede bil accidentsThe underlige ting er, at enhver g overnment ikke har nogen problemer med at modtage skatter fra salg af tobak .......
Charles Regina
Keith er helt rigtigt! En s en ex-ryger, jeg var kun i stand til at stoppe på grund af min viljestyrke. Jeg prøvede patche s, gummi uden held. Jeg begyndte at spore, hvor og hvornår mine cravings opstod, og være gan bemærke, hvordan nikotin skæve mine beslutninger. Jeg var i stand til at stoppe, og efter 3 m onths, og stadig den dag i dag, har jeg ikke haft et eneste trang. Tobak bruges til at b e dyrkes i vekseldrift med hamp, fordi tobak dræner jorden næringsstoffer uafhængig af hvor retholten e, som hamp ville fylde dem. Efter hamp blev forbudt, nye kemikalier skulle være d evelopped at dyrke tobak, og det er problemet. Vi forgifte en allerede giftig plante . Tving alle tobaksproducenter til at anvende økologiske INPUTS. Voksende omkostninger ville gå op BEC ause udbyttet ville gå ned.
Daniel fra Toronto
Det lader til, at de fleste kommentarer c oming fra folk, der bekymrer sig om mennesker at ryge, men vejen sig langt mere om peop le spise. Ikke uenig eller enig her, men hvad folk beslutter at gøre wit h selv er DER VALG!. Vi har ingen ret til at bestemme for andre end vores Børn. Bare for de politiske møtrik arbejdspladser ud af deres. A) Jeg dont ryge. B) im ikke overvægtig eller har diabietes, men jeg tror på fri vilje. Men helt ærligt de fleste rygere eller rygere til at være ikke vil se på disse billeder og give en skide anyways.
Sara
D øre Nikki:
Hvis de sundhedsarbejdere, læger og kirurger i dette land var ikke opkrævning af sådanne ublu priser for deres tjenester i første omgang, farten ringsrådgiver ville ikke behøver at afsætte mere end 50% af skatterne denne provins betaler sig at helbrede thcare. 85% af den samlede sundhedspleje lovforslaget er på løn alene. Der er måde meget misbrug hos alle jer, der har skabt denne finansielle katastrofe i sundhedspleje. Healthcare er forfatter til sin egen ulykke ikke de mennesker, der bruger og betaler f eller systemet. Du folk bare holde ønsker mere og mere at gøre mindre og mindre. U ntil regeringen beskæftiger sig med den virkelige kilde til problemet vil det aldrig chan ge, men holde værre. Du bebrejder ciggerettes og fedme og alt det andet under solen for høje omkostninger til at tage opmærksomheden væk fra den virkelige årsager behin U er det. Problemet er, at mange flere mennesker på denne jord er ved at indse du er n ot guderne du hævder at være. Flere og flere mennesker indser du kender langt l ESS om den menneskelige krop, og hvordan det fungerer, end din såkaldte videnskabsmænd hav e er at lede masserne til beleive i fortiden. Offentligheden er wising op - dit gribe til en nything kan du nu til at vedligeholde dine over oppustede lønninger. Rygere er ikke problem - den utrolige grådighed på sundhedsområdet er det eneste problem.
Jat Illan
Jeg beder t o adskiller sig med dem, der siger, at denne form for emballage er useless.Yes, kan det være u seless for dem, der allerede er rygere, og er afhængige af nicotine.Yet, det kan være et mere effektivt redskab til at highschool barn, der køber sin første pakke at føle afkøle. Det kan gøre ham til reconsider.Those, der siger, åh hvad med alle dem, fed mad, er, hvad regeringen vil gøre ved det? Helt ærligt, regeringen er ikke din mor eller far. Cigaretter er et problem for alle på grund af dens sec OND passiv rygning, og dens virkninger, som folk ikke kan kende det har på deres krop. En fornuftig menneske med et minimum af sund fornuft, vil vide, at spise en Hambur ger det dobbelte af dit ansigt er ikke godt. I det mindste ikke direkte skader dem omkring dig, mens du proppe dit ansigt
Redneck Vic
Flere mennesker bliver dræbt og mere Familie s sker ved at drikke end at ryge, så hvad gør vi om drikken? Nothin G! Jeg finder det temmelig ironisk, at vi ikke tillader rygning i arenaer og restauranter men vi tillader indtagelse af alkohol, hvor børnene er tilladt! sjove flash hjemmesider i r det ikke?
Sheila
Hvornår de skal nok få det ... de advarsler på pakkerne har nul effekt ... hele pakken alder kunne være et grafisk billede, og de eneste afværgede mennesker er allerede ikke-rygning ERS.
Det er symbolsk, i det ekstreme, som det koster ikke noget for regeringen til FO RCE skaberne af cigaretter for at ændre deres emballager ... finansiering rygestop klinikker wou ld være langt mere produktive og kan vise nogle resultater.
Doug i Alberta
De kan P UT billeder, alt hvad du ønsker på tværs af pakkerne, men det vil ikke hjælpe en smule. Jeg er supprised de ikke sætte etiketter på spiritus-flasker og ølkasser af bilen cr aske på grund af spirituskørsel, men igen, hvis man mener, at vil stoppe Drinkin g og kørsel du er forkert. Den eneste måde at stoppe cig. dødsfald er at trække dem fra hylderne og stoppe med at sælge dem. Hvis du ønsker at stoppe spirituskørsel, forbud alkohol og du kender alle, der vil aldrig ske. Held og lykke, men billeder gør ikke hjælpe
Marker
Spise en bacon-dobbelt cheeseburger vil dræbe dig hurtigere end rygning en cigaret, så hvorfor ikke etiketter på en burger?
Go Barb Go
Jeg vil gerne rose Barb Tarbox for en ll af hendes indsats, som jeg ikke kan forestille mig, hvad det ville føles at rejse dag ind og dag ud for at s peak følelse som om du var ved at dø indeni. Hendes familie gør det rigtige ved at opfylde hendes ønsker.
Billedet er ikke grafisk overhovedet. Dette er, hvad virkeligheden lo OKS kan lide og det er hvad du ser, når du går gennem en kræftafdeling. Folk, at engang var så levende reduceret til skaller af sig selv. En nøjagtig skildring af sandheden. Grafikken er en rigtig god idé, skal prisen på cigaretter stige til gør det uoverkommelige (herunder om indiske reserver) og forsikringspræmier skuldre d stige for folk, der vælger ikke at passe på sig selv.
Jeg er enig, at det h som at være en selvstændig motiveret ophør, dog nu mere end nogensinde, der er så m eventuelle hjælpemidler, medicin, organisationer, der kan hjælpe med at stoppe enhver afhængighed kendt m en. I de seneste fem år har jeg bemærket en betydelig reduktion af rygere. Smoki ng, og alle afhængighed er et valg.
Hvis folk vælger at passe sig selv, HEA lthcare ville ikke have dybden af byrder, som den har i dag.
Her er en bedre tanke
@ Her er en tanke, ni ce for at se den sidste hesten har passeret målstregen. Faktisk virkeligheden er th på det er mere vanskeligt og dyrt for en ryger at få livsforsikring.
By that logic, Fat people should have to pay more, since they use more water, more air and more space than most of us… once this hot topic dies off, you do know you're next!?
Lou
Wha ta waste of money. We smokers don't read the package inserts or look at the pictures. We like what is inside. Guess what, a lot of my friends with “perfect” lifestyles have died! Living causes death.Mi nd your own business.
Kayla in Kingston
I'ma smoker, and those images on the packages do noth ing for me. I just take the cigarette out and put the pack back in my pocket.I'm very educated , know it's bad for me, but I just decide to quit smoking.They shouldn't waste any money on those labels, be cause I know from myself and through friends that it will have absolutely no eff ect.
Marge
oh my god people, my mother smoked for 30 some odd years of her life and she passed away from breast cancer! Life style choices and stress is what ca uses cancer. And with all the money that is given to cancer 'research' why isn't there a cure yet? because there is too mu ch money to be lost if it's found that's the cold hard truth. People who smoke already know the dangers, the health risks, the cost, the consequences but what about the people who overeat? they are are putting themselves at risk too but noone says anything to them or makes them eat 50ft. from any entrance. There is better ways for money to be spe nt than to be putting pictures on cigarette packages, like putting criminals in jail and pedophiles to an electric chair! I pray for this generation and hope th at the future brings smarter people into power that can stop the truly evil thin gs. Let the poor woman who is on that cigarette pack rest in peace and don't splatter images l ike that, it's just sick.
Frank D.
It amazes me how the goverment treats adults like children when it comes to smoking…….and children like adults, in the sence that children can indulge in all the diabe tic, artery clogging, sodium filled fast food they want! …..with absolutley no warnings or gra phic pictures on the fast food bags what so ever!
markere
As a medical professional , encouraging people to quit smoking is a priority. The focus now is not to look at one, 5, or ten unsuccessful attempts at quitting as failures – they are NOT. Smoking is a chronic addiction and as such it might take 15 attempts before you finally kick the habit – but we encourage you to keep trying until you are successful. You CAN do it!
surv Ivor, ikke reality show
Jeg regner mine velsignelser for aldrig at blive fristet til at lys u p.From the 1st time as far back as I can remember(our station wagon with an 8 tr ack player and the windows rolled up),the headaches,blurred vision and stinky cl othing was enough convincing as a no brainer.
Sal
Smokers are “out on the street” so the rest of us don't have to breathe in cancer causing air!Smoking will never be banded as politicians smoke. Let's just minimize t he effects on others, and realize that is will always be with us. Stop using mon ey that can go to the homeless shelters, abused women shelters, child care etc. instead of making more graphic cigarette covers that does not deter anyone.
lol a69
My mother has smoked for close to 50 years, these warnings do absolutely noth ing to deter her from smoking, she even comments on them while she's smoking. Her mother was d iagnosed with lung cancer (survived it) and that didn't make her stop either. I've never smoked and never wi ll. The stench is what turns me off of it, not the warnings.
MikefromQuebec
Du can put these pictures on the packages all you want and it won't stop people from smoking. I n ever looked at the package when I used to smoke. I quit because I thought it mig ht help me feel better. In actaul fact all I did was gain weight and get high bl ood pressure. Not sure whether I'd rather die of cancer of a heart attack, although the heart attack would probably be quicker and less messy. If the government seriously wan ts the citizenry to quit, stop selling them, make them illegal. We all know they're harmful so only an idiot would disagree with a law banning cigarettes in this country. Idi ots, we can put in institutions to keep them from harming themselves. Pretty sim ple solution don't you think.
Keith
Non Smokers that blame Smokers for all these problems, nee d to take a look at the big picture of the smoking issue and put the blame where it needs to be. I have believed for years that the chemicals that they add to t obbacco, is the reason why it is so addictive. The addictiveness is the number o ne reason why people can't quit. Back in the 1950′s to the 1970′s, the Government was heavly invovled in supplying grants to Tobbacco Farmers and possibly research for the tobbacco companies. The Govern ment has started this problem and they need to force the tobacco companies to re move all chemicals from tobacco products, if they are serious about helping peop le quit. I hope that your reseachers at ctv will help me prove this matter and w e can get to the heart of the problem to start helping people quit smoking. Thes e adds on the cartons and packages do nothing to make anyone quit and they are a waste of tax payers money.
Goldens
GREAT! Lang over på grund! Hvis det stopper en person from becoming a candidate for the cover of next cigarette package the graphics were well worth it. If smokers want to bury their head in the sand and ignore th e adds that is their choice. It is the youth who may never start smoking because of this campaign that makes the graphics worth while.
Dave
What are you so affr aid of 2012 is just around the corner now, remember the world is going to end an yway
God help me to quit!
@Paul, sorry but Jesus isn't going to hold people out of heaven if t hey accept Him and want to be saved. As people draw close to Him they will want to quit smoking but to say they are destined to hell is “religious” and “legalistic” and that isn't Jesus's message. Christian compassion and mercy always triumphs over “religious” judgment.
MJ
And you want to know where the money goes????
Teen Perspective
I think the roo t of the problem are the young teens in high school that pick up the smoking hab den. I am a grade 12 student (never smoked) and each year the number of high scho ol students I see smoking has increased. I think the government should focus on teens that smoke. They should tighten up rules and laws and make sure minors can't get their h ands on cigarettes. These 14 and 15 year old teens who start to smoke don't fully understand t he consequences that come with it. More effort should be put in preventing distr ibution of cigarettes to minors. That way when they are older and their brain is fully developed then they can make the decision to smoke or not, rather than ge tting addicted to them at the age of 14.
Nikki
Dooley and others that think this is a “sin” tax…get real….The taxes you are paying are thankfully being put into the system which helps pay for the healthcare that all you smokers are using up! And I know! I do surgery everyday. This includes surge ry for smoking related illnesses..but not to mention the complex care that we gi ve to patients that cannot recover from everyday procedures because their lungs cannot handle the anesthetic, or all the medication we give to vascular patients because of all the junk lining your arteries….You did it to yourselves…if you don't want the tax…perhaps we should make you all pay for your own health care bills.
Freed
“Smoke Suckers” …. think about that a while. How unnatural to suck smoke carrying 40Ǡ toxins into your lungs and body then eventually die from it? Please quit people. You will be so glad you did.
Been there done that.
Smokers cannot “TRY” to quit they must psyche themselves up then decide to become a “NON SMOKER”. I quit cold turkey in 1984 after smoking 11/2 packs a day for almo st 18 years. It was the best decision I ever made and I am so glad I did. Smokin g today is socially unacceptable and a serious health risk. I encourage any smok er who wants to quit to decide to do it and then “JUST DO IT”.
Gail
You know if my mother put a picture of m e like this out to the world, I would come back from the dead and smack her upsi de the head.
dsm
give me a break people, alcohol does not kill, only if it is ab used (like the drinking and driving etc)candy does not make obese people, modera tion people moderation, but you smoke you smoke and nothing, even moderation isn t going to help you.
charlie
you can put whatever you want on the outside. It's the inside of the package smokers are going for. Try spending more money on quit programs, not advertising.
Inversity
Are these new laws applicable to all tobacco products so ld anywhere in this country? What about tobacco products sold on aboriginal rese rves? Will they be subject to the same rules (as far as warnings on packaging)? That has been a problem, as many aborigninal people feel like they are not subje ct to the laws of Canada, as their treaty rights give them the right to “self-government”, and that includes the right to sell tobacco products to anyone, at a price to be determined by th e aboriginals, themselves, and in whatever packaging they determine. There is no mention in the article about this issue.
Sara
It's nice that your taking all these intiatives to make people live longer. The problem here – now that they are living longer they have no r esources and healthcare programs in place to look after all these people. You li ve longer so you can be stuck in old age homes away from the rest of the world i n poor conditions with poor health care. Oh Joy!! There is no quality of life le ft once you get to that point. I would rather die in my own home happy when I ca n no longer have a good quality of life than be kept alive for years staring at four walls day in and day out in a nursing home. Put the money where it is reall y needed. You can't look after the elderly in this country properly now. God help them all in the next 20 years when that situation will be even worse – not just here but on a world wide s cale.
MaryT
I agree completely with Mae in Ontario comments. The anti smoking ca mpaigns and pressures of the past 10 years about people smoking is like a witch hunt from the 16th century. I can't think of anyone who doesnt know that smoking is not good f or you and its possible to die from it, the same asyou can die far more often fr om alcohol and drug problems. Yet the govt. do nothing about that because they m ake too much money. The govt. want you to know by their pressures about smoking that they are interested in your health. They are interested in looking good. Th ey already have harped on and on and on for years about smoking. Put the money o n something that will get more effect. Enough has been done about smoking. Do so mething about alcohol and drug addicts to save their lives and everybody affecte d by it where it would do more good and help more people.
Chris – Moncton
OMG Smoking is Bad f or Me!!!! I didn't know! Come on people the images on the packages do nothing but start conver sations among smokers huddled together for warmth in the cold winter. I quit smo king a year ago and I did it so that I would live to watch my 2 year old grow up , not because the warning labels scared me. Rather than increasing the amount of money spent on packaging, reduce it, make them soft packs rather than cardboard and use unbleached uncoloured paper with simply the Brand Name and “flavour”. So rather than a colourful pa ck it is simply a plain brown wrapper around the cigarettes, that will reduce th e environmental impact of all the discarded packages and further make branding a nd promoting any particular company that much more difficult.
Here's a thought
Here's a thought deny them an y sort of life insurance , insurance companies deny children with cancer, Autism down syndrome things that are completely out of their hands, but a smoker can g et covered no problem.
Patrick
I wonder when these warning are going to start ap pearing on contraband cigarettes.Over 80% of YOUTHS who smoke buy illegal cigare ttes!!! Where's the real problem in this society?As for the health care cost associated to smo king, our governments are racking in over 8BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR with tobacco, so us smokers are footing the bill. As for healthcare costs associated to car/in dustry pollution, over eaters, fat foods……….well, nough said. Oh yeah, yes I smoke, and I ENJOY it!
Karen
Total waste of m oney. The govt. is blind and stupid for spending money on labels. ARe they total ly blind and stupid? Must be. People stop when they want to stop. What they need to do is something about all the alcohol problems have around us which is far m ore severe than smoking can ever be. People lose their jobs,their families,their health, their self respect, and worst their soul. Of course, the govt. has reas on to let it continue. They make tons of money on alcohol and don't want to give that up. De need to do start with campaigns like they do for smoking and give up harping on smoking. I dont smoke or drink. Of course you can die from many other things.
kevcor05
Why not put this money to graphic labels on alcohol. It's a legal addiction that kills også. I think this is a waste of money considering 50% of packaging already warn s, displays are no longer visible, etc. Kids can get alcohol the same as they ge t cigarrettes!
KC Bby
In 100 years from now every single human being alive today and posting their thoughts here will be dead. I think all this talk about dying prematurely gives some people the sense of imortality. it doesnt matter if you jog everyday or eat two heapings spoon fulls of cod liver oil you have an expira tion date. There is a tree growing in the forest right this moment with your nam e on it. It will be cut down and used to build your coffin. It is great that som e of you will enjoy an additional 2 or even 20 more summers than the smokers but on a universal scale its really insignificant. Your time on this earth will be forgotten.
Esteban
@JohnInMtl…
Yes, info found via google & the internet make everything you read true. Carry o n with your research, grasshopper.
conductor274
These labels won't do a dam thing to prevent s moking because the government has no credibility on the subject of drug abuse. T hey have lied for over 30 years about the harmful effects of marijuana to 3-4 ge nerations of kids telling them it's a gateway drug to the most serious drugs like heroin, coca ine, crystal meth, etc. When the kids try pot the majority of them never try the harder drugs but they do drink alcohol and smoke cigarettes. The governments re gulate, sell and profit from the sale of alcohol and tobacco. Those two cause th e most damage to people than any other drug on the black market. So if tobacco i s so harmful why doesn't the government make that illegal? Answer is the same reason they cond one the tar sands in Alberta. The almighty dollar. Hyklere. Dem alle.
MAR G MM
I'm not so sure that warning labels will stop heavy smokers, but at least they won't cost the taxpayers any money. I guess if it stops some, then it is a good thing. Maybe telling smok ers that they stink badly, and that they age and wrinkle much faster, would do t he trick. Those that call on banning cigarettes are likely the same people that would whine and complain that the Government is being “dictitorial”, as the usual Harper haters constantly d o. Smoking is a filthy habit, which I once indulged in, but gave it up many year s ago. My husband also gave it up many years ago, but that didn't stop him from getting bladde r cancer, which the Dr said was caused by smoking. Fortunatly his treatments wor ked.
FlairCornwall
wow more pictures on packages.
who actually even looks at thos e covers ??
our native American friends love to sell illegal contraband products to stupid canadiens and there is no pictures on there packages !!
keep on smoking peeple and throwing your leftover garbage on the street and parking lots…
only a matter of tim e before wii see your funeral going down the street!
HAPPY New Year suckers …keep on sucking on that thing !!
Paul
It seems smoking is everywhere now, even in churches and it should not be. For non-christians you will probably not be interested in further reading. In the book of Revelation 21:8 in the Bible we are warned that no sorc erer will enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Well the word “sorcerer” is actually Pharmakos which mean drug addict in the original Greek translation but there was no word for drug addict when th e Bible was originally traslated into English. Smokers are addicted to the drug nicotene. So anyone who calls themselves a Christian and smokes, think again, yo u are a sorcerer. Get away from that thing. Touch not, taste not, handle not.
D ooley
What I find hypocritical is that every time they announce another 5% quit ( note 95% didn't)the government adds yet another SIN tax.
Do they REALLY want us to quit or are they grand standing for the quit smoking zealots while maintaining their cash gr ab?
Wonder how many low income families and seniors use the food banks because to the outlandish taxes we pay on tobacco?
Dick Chapman
You can tell who the smoke rs are when you read the comments! These ads will make teenagers think seriously , no matter what the addicted smokes say!
I quit smoking over 40 years ago and it is doubtful that I would be here today if I hadn't!
Hopefully some teens might be swayed by th e ads and someones life will be saved!
xsmoker
I was surprised lately at statis tics that show smokers' and obese peoples' lives aren't shortened by as much as I thought. Quality of life isn't as good though.
All that being said, it is part of aboriginal peoples' culture, so it shouldn't be made illegal. The same goes for m arijuana. The difference is that traditionally the aboriginals wouldn't ever smoke the equival ent of 2 packs a day. This obsessive behaviour is a trend of modern life. Like V LTs. It's all in search of escape frome the CORPORATE WORLD we live in.
FREE THE SLAVES!!! (Tha t's most of us BTW)
PMC NH49
Money runs everything. How many millions of dollars are collected every year from the taxes attached to cigarettes sales? Governments have payrol ls. Governments needs lots of cash. Flick your Bic suckers. People are easily mi slead. Question every single thing. Its false until proven to be true. Wisdom an d discipline are what mere fools despise.
JohnInMtl
What is the number one kille r world-wide? Cigarette smoke? FORKERT! Drug Abuse? FORKERT! AIDS? FORKERT! Antallet one killer world-wide is air pollution and the prime contributor to air polluti on is fossil-fueled vehicles. But the automobile-addicted deniers will try to bl ame it on anyone and/or anything else. Air pollution causes all sorts of respira tory diseases and many different cancers such as skin cancer,leukemia, etc. What about all the weird weather around the world (certainly not caused by cigarette smoke). That winter smog we see is not caused by wood-burning stoves (50-60 yea rs ago there were close to 1000 times more wood and/or coal burning stoves) but by underground and/or indoor parking garages. One important stat the ant-tobacco lobbyists won't tell you is while smoking has declined drastically during the past decade, ca ncer is still increasing at a rate that exceeds the decline in smoking! Advarsel stickers should be required on all new fossil-fueled vehicles and gasoline shoul d be taxed heavier than at present. That should help get the automakers on-board with electric or some other non-polluting vehicles. You have to remember it was the automakers who originated the gas distribution system along with the oil pr oducers. Electric cars were in style long before then. General Motors even went as far as to buy up tramway companies to shut them down and replace the tramways with fossil-fueled buses. (Don't believe me? Google “Great American tramway scandal”.)
Winds of Change
Well, at least the y aren't using actors this time around, what a joke that was… especially after finding out about the graph t alking about smokers deaths in Canada.
When are they going to put labels on alco hol showing what it looks like when someone is thrown from their car and their h ead skids along the pavement.
Dee
Now we just need horrific car accident picture s on beer labels, domestic abuse pictures on liquor bottles, fat kid pics on can dy bars, obese women pictures on bags of potato chips, heart attack victim pics on donut bags, pictures of stab wounds on kitchen knife sets, pictures of giant land fill sites on water bottles, pictures of people with bad acne on pizza boxe s and everything will be perfect.
Steve-O
Here's a novel idea…if the government were really sincere about pe ople “butting out” why not ban cigarettes outright, making them illegal? However, just like other addictions such as alcohol and lottery/gambling, it's too much of a cash cow for them. Besides smoking c an be a good form of crowd control if you know what I mean.
Stewie
People should be allowed to die in dignity, I think the picture of the person dying of cancer is a disgrace. My mother is in the later stages of Alzheimer's, she doesn't look much different than the pi cture of the person in the picture that's dying of cancer. Lung cancer killed my father at 49, it did nothing to stop me from smoking for the past 35 years. Quite wasting our tax dollars & let people die in dignity. Alcohol kills & destroys the lives of living people. Why are there no warnings on booze?
Prof. Pye Chartt
Knock it off. The intellectual absurdity and logical immaturity of this government-driven “issue” remains utterly pathetic. Smoking is a potentially let hal habit that is completely LEGAL. People have a foolish right to smoke that ex tends only to the point at which their smoke negatively impacts the health of ot hers (which, in practicum, means smoking at home, in the car by themselves or wi th other adults, and/or in public/private spaces away from buildings). THEREFORE , THE GOVERNMENT HAS NO MORAL AUTHORITY ON THIS ISSUE. Quit pretending otherwise .
Peter
I have been following this story for a bit now.I am sorry for the Tarbox family for ther lost.But I am happy to see some good come out of it in the same token.Congrats for pushing your fantastic idea.I really like the idea? I do thi nk it will push even more people to quit smoking .
Greg – Signs and Wonders
Wholly hardcore gr aphics Marlboro-Man….
Dawn
They should do the same to alcohol. I personally know of more peopl e who have died or become ill from drinking then i do from smoking. Fair is fair….People are g oing to do it no matter whats on the pack.
Chris
Guess what people… smoking has been done for millenia!!! Oooooo we're all educated now and know the unhealthy side effects of tobacco use… ooooooo, and i t kills… oooooo!!!Hey, another news flash for ya… OBESITY has superceded tobacco use as the leading cause of preventable death in North America. Oh and another guess what… those labels DO NOT WORK!!! Så you can whine and complain all you want, but if you socialist misfits get what you want YOU WON'T stop there.. you will hammer the alcolol industry next. You will hammer the food industry next… socialism is the next step to totalitarianism.. and it all starts with AN TI-TOBACCO!!!! So shut up already and respect people's right to lawfully CHOOSE to smoke… key word there is lawfully!!!
Stephen D James
I am an x-smoker.I decided too quit on July 31 2004. Being a trucker with lots of time on my hands between deliveries, I had develop ed my habit into 4 and 5 packs a day. That's 100 to 125 cigarettes per day for at least 20 of the 26 years I smoked.The amazing thing is that my wife could not wear the patch es as it gave her nightmares so when I decided to quit I asked if I could use th em and did so.
When I flew over too the UK too live in 2002 I had never been wit hout a smoke for more than 2 hours.The flight was 8 and hard but I was able to d o the job.I was proud. So I did try to lower my intake but before long I realize d I was buying 3 packs once again and set too buy more. I was losing this battle with the smokes. That day in July, I saw borrowed money go for smokes and not f ood. My priorities were gone and smokes were more important. So I asked my wife if I could use her patches. On July 31ST at 10:00 pm I lit my last smoke. At 10: 10 pm I butted out and gave my body a 20 minute rest period and place the patch on before I went too bed. August 1ST I awoke feeling OK, I felt I could have as moke, but it was able to control it. By day three I found the patch (my 3rd patc h) had fallen off and so I did not need them. Now 6 yearsņ months later I still do not smoke. Make the labels bigger…It is worth it.I can do it..so can you.
Will
These lable s do absolutely no good. You want to do something about youth smoking? Try educa tion instead of stupid photo scare tactics.
peter in BC
I've suggested in the past that they r aise the minimum age for buying cigarettes by a year every year to help keep the youths off cigarettes. But this idea has been met with anger by many readers. I'm curious thi s time around, if you click the “thumbs down” on my comment, please make a comment and let the readers know whether you are a smoker or not. Fact is, we can save billions in health care co sts and save thousands of lives if we got rid of cigarettes. Each year, we can r aise the minimum age making it harder and harder for our youths to get addicted to cigarettes. And if you elected to smoke, even knowing the risks, you would fo rfeit your health care rights. This is no different than your insurance company denying you coverage after you caused an accident because they realize that it w as your fault and therefore, they won't cover your costs for the repairs. You accept this ment ality from your insurance company, why can't we adopt it for the health care of those who choo se to smoke? Feel free to “thumbs down” my comment, but please let us know if you are a smoker or not. Cheer s!
Will SL
These new cigarette health warnings seems somewhat redundant–after all, we've all known for near ly half a century that smoking causes cancer. Instead of wasting money on new wa rning labels, perhaps the government should invest in tattooing every newborn ch ild with the words: “Health Canada advises that living will kill you.”
Ian Shaw
Advertising is premised crea ting desire for an item by presenting it in an attractive fashion. It would make sense that presenting items in a repulsive manner would decrease our desire. Wh o would shop at a fruit store that sent out fliers showing rotten fruit swarming with maggots? Keep up the good work and encourage people to quit smoking. The g raphics finally got to me and I quit 8 years ago after smoking for 37 years.
Sy l
A good idea in that it MAY help to keep young people from ever starting to smok e but I doubt if it will help anyone quite. Smoking is one of the most powerful adictions you can have. I think we put too much effort in trying to get people t o quit when all our effort should be to stop anyone from ever starting to smoke in the first place.
Rafael
to all who smoke cigarettes: I know you want to kill yourself but why you try to kill somebody else. People who not smoke and are clo se to smoke person get more poison then person who smoke.
So stop be a SELFISH!!!
I can say that to people who drive after drinking alcohol. Do not drive after a ny of amount of alcohol – YOU DRINK YOU NOT DRIVE!!!
I am 29 years old man so please listen to me and be mature like I am!
Lorne
I am a smoker and agree – smoking is no good for you.I quit for six months and gained 55 pounds – so I had my choice – get obese or quit smoking. Either way, I shorten ed my life.One solution – ban cigarettes in the country. Then raise the GST to cover the money shortfall from the hidden tax and make every Canadian pay their fair shaire of taxes, to cover all our social programs. Eliminate grants to all groups that lob by against smoking. These groups will not be needed. Use that monies towards oth er programs that help Canadians – reduction of harmful emissions, etc.We will then see how the se people will react to higher taxes, etc.
CSD
Now the government needs to start making beer, wine, liquor producers to start putting warning labels on their pr oducts. Alcohol cost more to the health care system than tobacco produces, plus the extra cost to the justice system, the insurance companies(which affects use who drive).
Toronto
If smoking is wrong I dont want to be right.
Jim
So….where's the grossed out accident la bles on booze bottles or cases…((of course drinking has never hurt anyone))….Oh yes I almost forgot, politic ians love to drink……
danR
Shock ads are shocking only to upwardly mobile types who wind up in government bur eaucracies and journalism desks.
Cigs will always appeal to a huge preponderance of teens who aren't going anywhere socially or financially. I'm sorry to shock you, but it goes something l ike this:
Ahh! I'm gonna DIE! I'm gonna be Barb Tarbox!! Hjælp! Hjælp! Ha! ha!. Pass me another cigarette, Joe !
The bigger the ad, the funnier.
The way to shock them is to tell them they wil l wind up being uncool: just like their PARENTS. But the college-educated flacks who engineer these 'shock' approaches don't understand the mentality of the non-upwardly mobile.
Sorry guys, you just don't get it.
Br ian
We need huge billboards carrying these pictorials on the roadways that enter every community where tobacco sales are a significant draw.
Susan Fairbairn
It's like the taxe s that have been put on tobacco products. It isn't going matter what is put on cigarette packa ging. There are going to be people who will choose to buy and smoke tobacco prod ucts, including children. Banning tobacco products isn't going do the trick either – some smokers are going to smoke no matter what. Neither has education.
Dan in Quebec
@LorraineH Quebec now pays for 3 VIF's because the people pushing for it (lobbying) were high profile friends of the prime minister of Quebec (Julie Schneider, Celine Dion and Pierre Karl Pela deau) . This province will never get it right!
Gary
Why not take some of the tax es off gasoline and add them to cigarettes?
Dan in Quebec
Make sure “NATIVE” cigarettes are also included in this target campaign!
Marg S
Cigarettes are taxed before sale to the public and then taxed again at point of sale. The drugs purchased over the counter to assi st in quiting are taxed. NOW, drugs are illegal, but both prescription and illeg al drug users can get rehab to quit their habit numerous times at the expense of the public taxpayer, while no money is collected on these products, except for the pharmaceutical manufacturers and retailers for prescriptions. WHY are cigare ttes legal and highly taxed but the smokers unable to get into rehab to quit and get good counselling since staying at home and quitting on one's own is impossible. Børn still suffer in second hand smoke in the home and in the car as parents don't always smoke out side and in the car when the children are not in it. Medical marijuana can be sm oked in rental units but not ordinary cigarettes, the fumes enter the hallways a nd other apartments where there are children and people with medical problems. W hen the marijuana users move the units do not get fumigated to the point of repl acing the walls, ceilings and floors that have absorbed the smoke. There is some thing dangerously wrong with government thinking, they want the money from taxes and can do so legally with the cigarette smoker but flatly refuse to assist the m to quit and they are the cause of the problem by not making it illegal. Tobacc o used in native ceremonies should be accounted for and not sold to the people f or personal use. This is their culture and should be respected. Then all of the Canadian population would be equal.
dsm
you know to me any graphic packaging will not stop the smokers, they are addicted and looking at a picture on packages wont change their mind.smoking is the most digusting habit, if the sm okers only knew how bad they smell, but i guess even that doesnt matter, probabl y have to die to the point, oh then its too late. wake up smokers, why do you th ink its banned in all public places now.
bikerborz
I smoked for 20 years, and am now almost 5 years quit. During the time I was smoking, the gov't INTRODUCED these graphic warning packages. We smokers just tuned 'em out. It doesn't have any effect whatsoever. The gov't should save it s money and just collect the taxes. On the subject of how to get people to quit, a person has to WANT to quit, and no gov't is going to easily change a person's mind.
Gummiente
@DJKoop: Ma ke cigarettes illegal and thereby force people to quit…. uh, yeah. That'll work. Just like it did for mariju ana and other drugs. Hellooooooo…?
Slewhigh Yendick
The government is in total control of this product.. They decide at any time to change the label ,, and yet they simoly CA NNOT label our foods that containn genetically modified organisms !!!!..Has Obam a quit smoking yet??
I Wonder
This is just a waste of tax dollars, if this much effort was put into curing drug addicts that would be more commendable.Smokers h ave lost ALL their constitutional rights YET pot smokers can light up anywhere i t seems.IF tobacco is as bad as the lobbyists try and tell us then get the manuf acturers to remove the deadly contents of their product.Personally I don't believe any of the claims due to the fact that many members of my family smoked for years and all d ied of old age with no signs of cancer or breathing issues!!!!!!!!!!Find somethi ng else to lobby about and leave peoples personal life choices alone.Smoking doe sn't kill BUT drugs sure do!!!
LorraineH
In Quebec the government has found millions of dollar s to help women get pregnant through IVF at $15,000 a try and will pay for 3 tri es. This is for all Quebec women regardless of their financial status.
Why don't they find som e money to set up free bilingual smoke cessation clinics where smokers could get help with their addiction along with the tools necessary, ie Nicorettes, patc hes, etc. to help them stop.
Smokers can be a drain on Medicare as are those who live unhealthy life-styles and suffer from, among other things, obesity, high b lood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol, heart problems, etc. but, with holier than thou attitudes, don't smoke so feel quite righteous.
Additionally, cigarettes are a cash cow and continue to generate a lot of tax money which the Government is unwilli ng to give up.
As for banning smoking, prohibition didn't work so well in the US except for th e money made by Canadian Whiskey Barons who continued, throughout Prohibition, t o provide Americans with their drink of choice. This time the Americans would be the beneficiaries as cheaper cigarettes would follow the same route as illegal whiskey did and we would be greatly helping their economy.
Our Government has no intention of banning smoking – they really want to continue increasing the price of legal cig arettes and stop the sale of illegal cigarettes. This would not be for the good of the smoker, but because they are not generating any tax money on illegal ciga rettes.
River
Compare the addiction to that of a dehydrated person with a glass of water just out of their reach.
David Siemens
Fighting tobacco use is like tre nch warfare in WW1. Back and forth goes the battle with thousands dead after eac h attack. Cigarette smoking is lethal, deadly, toxic, destructive and those that smoke are continually impaired. The anti-smoking campaign is the greatest singl e achievment of our society in the past 50 years.What part of the tobacco indust ry do you want to protect, and why?
Anthony
An unending cigarette label soup ope ra, that has been going on for decades, using taxpayers money. If nothing else, it keeps politicians busy to justify their large salaries and even larger pensio ns. It would have been far easier, had they made production and sale of cigarett es illegal in Canada, but do not forget – collecting all those taxes must have put a grin on a ny seasoned bureaucrat's face.
Dixie from Alberta
This product kills. Plain & simple. Its a dirty disgusting h abit so why is it still on shelves? Subsidize farmers to get out of producing to bacco and change to a more life friendly product.
KC Bby
It's your friends that will get you a ddicted to substances. The addiction rarely comes from some sleazy death merchan t at a corner store. And speaking of sleaze, why does London Drugs peddle prescr iption medication on one side of their store and on the other side they sell cig arettes?
Reece
@Romz – - “What confuses me is why doesn't government just ban smoking altogether? If its so harmful and a leading cause of death. If the goal is to prevent smoking why not eliminate it a ll together?” – - – I reside in Vancouver and Mexico. Would you like to know what its like to live under the consequences of prohibition? Go visit Ciudad Juarez for just a day. The war on drugs is a com plete failure and everybody from the president on down to the freshly minted law yer are all aware of the complete destruction of law and order. Everybody preten ds that there is a plausible belief that the war will come to an end and there w ill be a victory celebration down main street. We all realize that making anythi ng illegal only creates wealth for the terrorists, cartels, lawyers, etc. Maybe you live on a white picket fenced suite and walk to work at the ice cream shop e veryday. En route to your shop you say hello to Andy, Opie and lets not forget D eputy Barney Fife….oh, what a character he is aint he?? My question to you is simple: Why do y ou want armegeddon to come to your village? Didnt you enjoy the machine gun batt les of Ciudad Juarez? Oh yeah, you dont get to experience that in Mayberry. So, to answer your question, the reason that govts dont ban such a harmful product i s because they dont want you to die from second hand bullets.
B. Kelley, Ontari o
I'm not a smoker so I think that I'm reasonably objective when I say that the Anti-smoking groups are reall y “anti-smoker”. People who smoke have been marginalized, isolated, condemned, banned to the street, legisla ted, taxed and punished under the banner of protecting health. In Ontario, they're not even al lowed to have a roof over their heads when they go outside to smoke. Allowing th em a little creature comfort apparently might encourage their disgusting habit. Smokers are not criminals, they are victims of an insidious industry that manage d to get them hooked on a poisonous product. If we treated drug addicts, alcohol ics or people with AIDS in the same manner then the human rights advocates would justifiably be screaming bloody murder. Nicotine addiction is not a character f law. It is a physical and mental addiction every bit as real as an addiction to heroin and just as difficult to overcome. Instead of printing stupid pictures on packages and punishing smokers with crippling taxes, our governments should be offering real help to quit by providing proven effective smoking cessation produ cts and extensive support programs at no cost. The punitive approach is not only ineffective, it is inhumane. There seems to be plenty of money to bail out toba cco farmers who have been complicit in supplying their poison to the market so h ow about a few dollars and a little compassion to provide real help to their vic tims?
Amir
maybe the federal governement should stop being hypocrite and ban sal e of socially acceptable drugs like tobacco,alcohol,pain killers,prosac etc
Nor m Winnipeg
Maybe the government should introduce “Cigarette Registration”. They kill more people than guns. ( just takes longer) All users must be registered and show a photo ID card to ob tain a pack. Based on an annual physical, Smoker's Permits could be revoked. It is a federal o ffense for me to hand my gun to a non licensed person. Apply the same to smokers ! Or just ban them completely.
Intelligent Liberal
Kids laugh at the warnings an d think they are cool. Worst thing is the government plans to put the picture of a deceased anti-smoking advocate. How would she feel about having her face on p acks of smokes all over the country? What a terrible idea, kids will make fun of hende. The government is clueless on this negative-advertising issue, they should stick to what they are good at, bashing the opposition leader.
Wojtek
e-cigaret tes are the answer here folks. I successfully quit smoking using those things, a nd stopped using e-cis as well. 1yr on Jan 4th. The gov could of looked into get ting resale rights for ecigs and making their own e-liquid. They collect the tax on it, you use a product that you can trust more then china-branded liquids, an d you stop smoking those cancer sticks. Everyone wins.
Franco
Anything that help s to stop people from smoking is a good idea. Anyone defending the right to smok e is just nuts. Maybe the Gov should just ban it since most people do not smoke anyway and would stop any new smokers.
Simon Blastock
First of all, I am a smoke r and in agreement with others, a bigger warning is not going to change my choic e to smoke or not, really I have read the so-called effects of smoking and have them memorized by now. There are people dying of cancer everywhere and the gover nment says smoking is to blame. However that is only part of it…How many automobiles are on th e road, roughly 10 million in Canada? Do people not think that all the toxins a gasoline/diesel engine spews out has something to do with this? Wake up people a nd start thinking.
jane22
i think everyone is just wasteing there time the gover ment is never going to make cigarette's illegal they make way to much money besides whats the point its not going to stop people from smoking . weeds illegal but that doesnt stop people from smokeing that now does it .. so i think they should make new la bles because if they cant stop people from doing it they might aswell make every one aware of the Consequences that you risk by smokeing .
RK in MB
Did no one in the government think that all this publicity both positive and negative might p ush smokers to buy contraband smokes because they're cheaper? If the government wanted to spen d wisely they would study the ecigarette and approve it so us smokers could get our fix but be healthier. Of course that would mean reduced tax money which obvi ously can't be tolerated. What do you call someone who acts like they are looking out for you but really aren't? Snake oil salesman, schister? I'm not sure but as long as the government keeps allowing c igarettes to be sold the anti-smokers should be complaining ABOUT the government , not to them! Smoking and complaining and smoking is just big business. Tobak companies make huge profits and the extra tax dollars I pay for my smokes goes to the anti-smoking groups as grants among other groups. Maybe the government ca n come up with $300 million dollars for smokers to stimulate the economy. It sho uld work just as well as some of the other ideas to come out of Ottawa.
romz
Wha t confuses me is ….why doesnâ ™t government just ban smoking all together? Hvis its so harmful and a leading cause of death ….If the goal is to prevent smokin g why not eliminate it all together? Instead of putting bigger and better pictur es on cigarette packs- it's like saying- buy these smokes but remember you can die from it BUT we will sell it to you because it helps us make MONEY… am I the only one, but this just doesn't seem to make any sense.
Mike Macdonald – Winnipeg
The new warnings will d o nothing to stop young people from starting. Kids in the 12 – 16 age group are invincible (re member when you were that age?) and will probably get a kick out of the new pack sek. The vast majority of 'older' smokers, like myself, enjoy it. Yes, I admit it! I enjoy it! As to those who advocate a ban on tobacco products, can you say 'prohibition'? I knew you could. A ridiculous plan. What sh ould be done, is to take all the money the government is putting into these new warnings, and fund educational programs in our schools, targeting pre-teens.
Mi ke
When are they going to put labels on the side of cars and warn people about th e harmful fumes from car exhaust, or one on every bottle of alcohol, with an imp aired driving accident scene or someones liver after years of alcohol abuse, or a picture of the ring around the sky from a coal burning hydro plant that we all use? It's because the majority that jump on smoking, abuse all those. Stop picking on the min ority, and let's label and harp about all of them !!!
Keith Fisher
My question: Is there any p roof that these graphic warnings have any effect on smokers' addiction rates? I would think th at, beyond the initial shock value, it would be “tuned out” by the purchaser anyway. What's next, are they going to post p hotos of cirrhotic livers and fatal car crashes on all alcohol containers (liquo r, wine & beer)? The gov'ts make too much money on all of these products to do something positively constructi ve about it.
Bill Sixty
@DJKoop
The Gov`t doesn`t want you to stop smoking.They j ust want to control when you start,where you smoke and what you smoke. Can`t hav e you smoking those illegal cigarettes because they won`t collect taxes to pay f or these hypocritical messages on cigarette packages.
Mae in ontario
It makes me laugh when they give how many deaths were caused by smoking. Just how do they k now that smoking was the cause?Case in point.My husband has had allergies all hi s life. I'm sure he has had asthma too but didn't know it. He quit smoking 20 years ago. My son has asthma t oo–maybe you can say from second hand smoke, but how do you explain that my grandson who has n ever been exposed to smoke has it too. I'll bet if either my son or husband died they would co unt them as smoking deaths.My neighbour dies from a massive heart attack. He had been a smoker but quit. His son died from a massive heart attack too at 39. En autopsy said it was a genetic disorder. I'll bet these were classed as smoking deaths too.The truth is that while smoking is bad for you and may be a contributing cause in so me deaths, they do not know the exact cause of smokers deaths. It is also true t hat if you have smoked it is classed as a smoking death. Would my neighbor or hi s son have lived longer if my neighbour never smoked. Jeg tror det ikke
kenn
Have the governmen t show some gonads and stop selling 'em for the tax money. sheesh are we that stupid?
Jacques Verville
I see that the Alberta Government is suing big tobacco companies right now for 10 million. They've passed laws against tobacco advertising, enacted indoor smoking ba ns, and affixed health warning labels to cigarette packages and the government h as consistently hiked taxes on tobacco. I'ma smoker and a nurse, my wife quit five years ago. she's a nurse as well and comes home at least three times a month telling me of another smoke r that died under 40years of age. I would be in full support if the government w ould just ban it entirely. How do you provide it to smokers, charge them more an d then sue the companies that make them because of health care cost. It's killing us people!
sandra
I am getting so tired of the government putting the onus on the customer……they spend more money on awa rness but very little on prevention. The government will make laws with chemical s or trans fat but for some reason they won't make a law for cigarettes…..cigaretts causes lung cancer as we ll as the above mentioned….knowing this the government refuses to shut down the manufactures a s they will lose revenue…..how hypocritical is that!!!!You pu those pictures on packages…your only going to drive them to buy from the reserve.Instead of spending 7 million on packagaing, why won't you spend the money on serisouly helping people to quit……..I SAY SHUT THE MANUFACTURERS DOWN AND BE DONE WITH…..stop blaming t he consumer…. PS I am a smoker
Ann W.
What a waste of time and money. Smokes are hiding from view so you can't even see the warnings until you purchase them. Are they also going to make cigarette cases illegal?
Jon in London ON
Electric cigarettes – at about 1/3 the cost of regul ar cigarettes – offer the look and feeling of a normal Cigarette, excluding any dangerous canc er inducing substances. Electronic Tobacco Users breathe in clean H2O evaporatio n combined with nicotine without smoke, tar or ash. Still banned in Canada, our health officials think a bigger picture on the box is a good use of taxpayer dol lars.
DON
It does not matter what's on the package people are still going to smoke.So please s top whining about it.
DJKoop
Being a smoker myself I have one question, if they want people to quit smoking that bad why don't they just make it an illegal product in Canada and force everyone to quit?
RGBrook
It seems the government realized that Canadi ans weren't about to accept them wasting almost 4 million dollars of taxpayers money by scrapp ing this smoking cessation and world recognized incentive. This barely scratches the surface of our government's responsibility to put an end to smoking. Now let's hope that the problem wi th contraband cigarettes being sold to non-natives by reservations is soon broug ht to an end. Fine the sellers AND the buyers of these illegal smokes for tax ev asion. And no more flip-flops on your policies Harper please. You personally mig ht be able to afford it, but Canadians can't.
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