Brutal Australian Cigarette Warning Labels
June 29, 2006 by Liz Lewis
Filed under Cancer, Prevention, Smoking, Your Mind
Um, there’s something on your foot.
The Australian gov’t will no longer be screwing around when they warn you about cigarette smoking. These are 10x more horrifying than the ones we have here in the land of the free and the home of the deluded.
From Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada- (pops)
After March 1, 2006, cigarettes sold in Australia must be packaged with the following health warnings. The warnings must cover 30% of the front and 90% of the back of the cigarette package.
Seven warnings are rotated within brands, and after 12 months, a different set of seven warnings is used.
So put down that sammich and get more of the extremely effective warning labels and other info on the campaign after the jump.
Australian Gov’t Dept. of Health and Aging (pops)
[tags]smoking, health, tobacco, Australia [/tags]
Kelly Townsend
I think a million dollar idea would be stickers to cover that up. Yeesh.
Canada has had similar warnings since 2000. The warnings take up 50% of the package, front and back in French and English. See http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ahc-asc/media/photogal/label-etiquette/index_e.html
The “limp” cigarette impotency warning and the teeth are particularly interesting.
But it’s STILL not enough to make my wife quit. Not until she’s good & ready (or dead).
Although I think it may have had an impact on her decision to quit when the time is right. There’s another ad campaign here that says, “The best time to quit is … while you’re still alive”.
je trouve que ca risque de choquer les petits enfant lorsquil regarderont le paquet de leur parent je suis contre ses avertissement
je trouve ca completement nul ca fait deja assez moche avec les avertissements ecrit alor la c’est horrible et imaginez qun petit gosse trouve un paquet a son pere le choc et apres dan les films on marque interdit au moin de 18 ans pour les films dhorreur abuse leur coneries men fou en france y a des avertissements ecrit haha