how effective do you think the warnings are on cigarette packets.?

Question

they're going to be appearing on alcaholic drinks too but i think it will make very little difference. This isn't the 70's, everyone knows the risks nowadays

Answer 1

Utterly useless - I have been trying to quit for a long time and haven't made it yet.

I suspect that the warnings are there to protect the government by being sued for allowing cigarettes to be sold. The government have a get-out clause, which is - "Don't say we didn't warn you".

Answer 2

They arn't effective at all, you read them once, take it in for a few seconds, but then you still light up. My favorite one say something along the lines of" smoking is addictive, dont start" surely by the time you have bought the cigs its to late?!

Someone, in an earlier answer, mentioned putting pictures of lungs etc on cigs, however i was recently in thailand where they have done this. As with the text warnings; it makes you think but you allready know the risks, you get used to the horrible pictures and end up ignoring them.

I doubt they'll have much of an effect on alcoholoic drinks, it may make everyone think about how much they are drinking for a few days but, I know the dangers of binge drinking yet I was still out consuming vodka until 5am this morning...

Answer 3

Not very.I smoked for many years. The packets gave dire warnings of what smoking would do to you and could cause premature death and so on.I completely ignored these warnings as do almost all other smokers.It wasn't until I was rushed into hospital with breathing difficulty and pains that it brought it home to me. Lucky for me my heart was OK but my lungs are impaired by smoking.As I said it wasn't the notices that made me quit. I don't think the notices on wine bottles and beer cans will do any more than the cigarette warnings.People won't take any notice.

Answer 4

I gave up smoking 7 months ago,it had nothing on earth to do with the warnings on packets,it was because I wanted to.

We adults are treated like children,anyone with half a brain knows the risks of using cigarettes and alcohol,but it doesn't deter people,more the opposite.

You know, in time we wont be able to do anything so it will make sense to live dangerously because it wont be worth living.

Answer 5

That is not the really the point
it is because the "rulers"
who make these daft rules up
just cannot accept the fact that 90% of
ordinary adults are quite sensible and well adjusted
individuals who have learnt to take care of themselves
Mainly because of the meddling actions
of these puny jekyl and hyde type rule makers in the past
So therefore they bring it upon and down on everyone so as
to take the heat off of themselves and their deep rooted
inadequacies and their fragile pathetic clueless existences
which they dearly treasure about themself so much!
Its made apparent by the way these cretins walk over everybody else regardless of the outcome or the effect it has on society

Answer 6

They aren't nearly as effective as peer pressure, addictive
chemicals added to the already addictive tobacco, and of course, the cigarette companies favorite, using amonia to cure the leaf which free-bases the nicotine.

They love this because it is close to impossible to track, and works two ways: if someone gets used to the free-base, then the company cuts it off, they smoke twice as much to get the kick... and on the other hand, new smokers get instantly addicted to the free-base.

This is what the 1992 law suit against the companies was about, but the public wasn't really told.

The tobacco companies are pretty effing evil. I feel sorry for smokers. But not enough to let them smoke in my house.

Answer 7

here in the UK, i've only seen written warnings on packets.

In the US and Canada i've seen more graffic pictoral warnings. They have much more of an effect.

At the end of the day though, i don't think they have they influence a smokers decision to buy a packet or not.

Answer 8

Zero effective ,if you smoke you already know the health risks. To be honest I don't even notice the heath warnings on my cigarettes now . I can imagine it would be the same if and when they go on alcoholic drinks.

Answer 9

I don't think they've made much difference. As you say everyone knows the risks. Maybe it would stop people starting but I've seen those who've been smokers for years laughing and making jokes of the warnings.

Answer 10

maximum people who're indignant by the packaging purely placed then right into a fancy field heck Used to conceal the precise of the field with white sticking tape hahaha!! I now not smoke as I certainly have emphysema loopy huh??