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I just saw the same thing at the duty free shop in Tel Aviv. Priceless!
These large, direct warnings are common all over the European Economic Community. My favourite one is something like "SMOKING CAUSES IMPOTENCY, AND DAMAGES YOUR SPERM CELLS". But the most common (in Deutschland) is "RAUCHEN KANN TÖDLICH SEIN" (Smoking can kill you). Sounds much more authoritative that way.
Nothing beats the warnings on ciggy packs in Thailand.
Hungarian Marlboro Lights? Why is it in English then? Did we invade them?
Wait- what does ecce homo think about this?
Pretty certain those are English ciggies - not sure what they would have been doing in Hungary.
they were purchased in budapest during benni hemm hemms recent european tour.
@5: Ecce homo is out on a smoke break, and I'm sure will venture his/her opinion shortly.
@5,8: And I'd bet that whatever the comment will be will have some racist aspect to it, possibly regarding the smoking habits of certain south Seattle residents.
What are the smoking habits of certain south seattle residents?
I where have I been "racist"? I oppose racism and homophobia everywhere I look. I do happen to notice quite a bit of it hiding just below the surface in some of the posts and comments on SLOG. Perhaps you bring the subject up out of some desire to provoke a race debate. So who really is the racist? You perhaps?
British labels are blunt too, e.g. "Smoking will kill you."
Australian labels have full-colour photos of smoking-related disgustingness such as gangrene, clogged arteries from a heart-attack victim, and tumours. They make me want to start smoking.
mike @ 9:
can you try & use the words "bigoted" &/or "predjudiced" instead of "rascist"? its more reflective of the reality of race relations in 'murka.
like this: "i've noticed that black people only smoke menthol cigarettes. let me amend that to SOME black people, i don't want to come off as a bigot."
The reason our packs say "may" cause cancer (rather then the blunt wording of other countries' packs) is because the American tobacco companies wrote the legislation.
If they say "may" then 1. they can't be held responsible for anyone dying of lung cancer, because smokers were informed that there might be risks 2. at the time the legislation was written, they could continue to pretend that the link between smoking and cancer was not proved.
The word "may" is there both to confuse smokers about the health effects of smoking, and to cover the tobacco companies' asses. It's a brilliant piece of PR.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/94/244270104_39787dd544.jpg
It's shocking stuff...
Surely cigarettes "may" kill you because it's not guaranteed to kill you. You could die from being overweight first!
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