You Don't Even Know Who I am.

thedailywhat:

Surgeon General’s Graphic Warning of the Day: Making good on its promise, the FDA announced today that it has informed cigarette manufacturers that they must affix large, graphic warnings to their tobacco products by October 2012.

The gruesome labels are already standard in some 40 countries, and the US government hopes the nine images chosen as part of the most significant change to warning label policy in over 25 years will help persuade people to quit and/or avoid the cancer sticks altogether.

What say you? Will these labels convince you to stop smoking?

[wsj / consumerist.]

I only smoke occasionally, but I have to say these stupid warnings piss me the fuck off.

I know how to read, I know that smoking is bad for me.  And I choose to do it anyways.  I “get” that these are just trying to cause people to think more about what they’re putting into their bodies, but the fact that we spend time trying to convince people what they should put into their bodies is just another thing that pisses me off. 

This just annoys me, because I’m gonna have to make a sleeve to cover my pack, or get an actual cigarette case.  Which will probably mean that I’ll keep on replenishing my smokes, and in turn, smoke a lot more, because, who wants to have an EMPTY cigarette case just lying around, right?