Anti-smoking campaign

for once it seems to work

pretty much every regular smoker i know has mentioned to me in the past 2 weeks that they want to give up fo rhealth reasons

looks like the federal government is doing the right thing for a change

that said its not going to stop me from having the odd paro ciggy :shear:

I could never give up smoking your cigar

the government isnt doing the right thing until they make selling carcinogens/poisons for human consumption illegal .. . oh wait. . . isnt there already a law against that? :nugget:

If that cancerous mouth isn't incentive for ANY smoker to quit, then there is something seriously wrong with them!

I'm not saying I'm gonna find it easy to quit, but I'm determined to do it.

If I got cancer, I'd just shoot myself.

Easy

*shakes head* Ray!
:lol:

Hmm... yeah well, at the end of the day, I've got someone else I need to think about. And the fact that I've already had it once, makes me quite succeptable (sp?) to it in the future

I think my opinion is obvious!!

Great campaign.. here is the website
http://www.quitnow.info.au/

And here is the link to the new pictures appearing on packs.
they are disgusting ... just like smokers are
http://www.health.gov.au/internet/wcms/pub...ing-packs-A.htm
http://www.health.gov.au/internet/wcms/pub...ing-packs-B.htm

good to see something serious is finally being done!

those pics are brutal!

This post has been edited by Blitz: Feb 27 2006, 10:25 PM

Interesting to see that the 2 legal recreational drugs kill TWENTY FIVE more times than illegal ones...

that is all

My mum has cancer 4 times.... she started smoking when she was 12, same as my step dad, earlier for him tho, they stopped smoking years ago now was hard for them, but the effects are still there heavy coughing etc in the morning, i guess my point is like every addiction you have to want to give it up, and thats what the goverment are trying to do with the mouth cancer picture's, like myself, I will no doubt have problems coz i tend to drink to much.. but i enjoy it, what can ya do.. :gasp:

i don't smoke but its really their own choice and yeh its a stupid one but they should be able to do what they like as long as its not going to affect others, so by banning cigarettes or something like that is just taking away someones so called freedom. smoking smells, kills, and tastes shit true, but i like getting shitzenfaced and i don't like people telling me its wrong

yeh so they should fuck off outside and not make us non-smokers smell like shit and die from passive smoking. How selfish is that??
Cant wait til the laws come in

that what i mean by not affecting the rest of us, yes it should be banned from bars and clubs and stuff not just a metre from the bar. if they want to smoke stay at home, and stiff shit otherwise, that way they might go out and not smoke because they can't

All my freinds are really good when it comes to smoking, i mean they dont smoke around non smokers like myself, I can sit there though as it does not bother me, its when people smoke on the dance floor, or at the bar, thats when its fukd 4 sure.. as i tend to spend most my time next to the bar :) hehe

if people received relevant & useful drug education the death toll would be far far lower.

Didnt we all know that smoking fucks u up anyway.
I dont think it'll make a huge difference, most people start smoking in their teens when they are invincible and just get hooked.
Remember when they put the health warnings like "smoking kills" in big white letters on the top of packets.
I just bought some stickers that said "smoking is realy cool" and stuck em on top.
I quit 4 yrs ago tho.
What's next, pictures of liver disease and head on car collisions on scotch bottles?
People like living dangerously.

yeah yeah.. thats great the government are doing that shit but like .... if its so bad why dont they ban it all together?

yeah yeah they make shitloads of tax on it. i do know this! but fuck! the shit kills ya. they can make drugs legal and whack fat taxes on them as well ...... i dont see this happening though!

People can tell you that cigarettes will kill you, give you cancer etc etc until they are blue in the face, but its not going to stop a smoker now is it? If you can't actually PHYSICALLY see any problems, then why stop right?

Quitting is hard...

I think the pictures on the packet are a FANTASTIC idea... I think the pictures are going to make the problem of smoking a lot more realistic to smokers... Sure, you could say that x amount of people dying a year is realistic... but most people seem to think they're invincible, that its not going to happen to them etc etc.

Seeing those disgusting photos everytime you feel like a cigarette is surely going to stop people wanting to smoke...

I know i'd never buy a packet if it had those pictures on it...

Good on the government, its about time they did something like this...

i feel so sick

:sick:

think i'm gonna find my patches today and chuck one on!

smoking is a sign of weakness!!!

If you smokers think otherwise, then please explain why you started smoking in the first place ?

Its a burden to the health system, and it costs billions of dollars a year to the tax payer. Why should non-smokers have to pay for people that choose to cause problems for themselves ?

And how disrespectful and narrow-minded are some smokers when they light up near non-smokers, and ignore the fact that many non-smokers do not wish to smell, breath and consume the toxic chemicals which they choose to put into their blood stream.

If you wish to smoke in public, do it somewhere that does not invade the space of patrons around you.

Feel free to smoke yourself to death, but show some respect and do it without causing an inconvenience to the people around you.

i might not have much of a lung left mate, but atlease i got kidneys :p