Health Warnings - Revision history

Mamoune at 10:26, 25 August 2012

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Kellynium at 12:40, 7 July 2012

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	:''Psychometric measures on anxiety and nicotine craving were administered. Light smokers showed an attentional bias towards packages without pictorial warnings while no effects were observed in the other groups. In heavy smokers attention allocation towards pictorial health warnings was associated with an increase of craving and anxiety. The results have a potential public health perspective as pictorial health warnings might be an effective strategy to reduce attentional bias towards cigarette packages of light smokers, while counterproductive effects in heavy smokers warrant further investigation. :''		:''Psychometric measures on anxiety and nicotine craving were administered. Light smokers showed an attentional bias towards packages without pictorial warnings while no effects were observed in the other groups. In heavy smokers attention allocation towards pictorial health warnings was associated with an increase of craving and anxiety. The results have a potential public health perspective as pictorial health warnings might be an effective strategy to reduce attentional bias towards cigarette packages of light smokers, while counterproductive effects in heavy smokers warrant further investigation. :''
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		+	The tobacco industry filed suit against the FDA to halt the mandating of gruesome health warnings on the packages and [http://www.medpagetoday.com/PrimaryCare/Smoking/34363 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia sided with them ] stating that:
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		+	:''FDA makes much of the 'international consensus' surrounding the effectiveness of large graphic warnings, but offers no evidence showing that such warnings have directly caused a material decrease in smoking rates in any of the countries that now require them.
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		+	:'' These inflammatory images and the provocatively-named hotline cannot rationally be viewed as pure attempts to convey information to consumers, they are unabashed attempts to evoke emotion (and perhaps embarrassment) and browbeat consumers into quitting.''
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	===European health warnings===		===European health warnings===

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	It must also be noted that Tobacco Control continually demands ever more prominent display of gruesome images of death and disease on cigarette packages while it has fanatically and immorally blocked clearly attainable [http://tctactics.org/index.php/Reduced_Risk_Cigarettes;_Tobacco_Control%27s_Egregious_Resistance_to_a_Moral_Imperative risk reduction of the cigarettes themselves] for decades now.		It must also be noted that Tobacco Control continually demands ever more prominent display of gruesome images of death and disease on cigarette packages while it has fanatically and immorally blocked clearly attainable [http://tctactics.org/index.php/Reduced_Risk_Cigarettes;_Tobacco_Control%27s_Egregious_Resistance_to_a_Moral_Imperative risk reduction of the cigarettes themselves] for decades now.
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		+	===Recommended Listening===

	The following audio is more than just a discussion about plain tobacco packaging. It's a must listen to discover or rediscover many of the shenanigans in tobacco control.{{#ev:youtube\|OrrHSyMdKAw\|433\|left\|Voice of Russia}}		The following audio is more than just a discussion about plain tobacco packaging. It's a must listen to discover or rediscover many of the shenanigans in tobacco control.{{#ev:youtube\|OrrHSyMdKAw\|433\|left\|Voice of Russia}}

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 "Plain packaging" proposals are symptomatic of Tobacco Control megalomania; they descend precipitously on the slippery slope to government tyranny over all matters of personal choice and lifestyle. Author [http://www.adamsmith.org/research/reports/plain-packaging Christopher Snowdon has written perceptively] on the subject.
-It must also be noted that Tobacco Control continually demands ever more prominent display of gruesome images of death and disease on cigarette packages while it has fanatically and immorally blocked clearly attainable [[Reduced Risk|risk reduction of the cigarettes themselves]] for decades now.
+It must also be noted that Tobacco Control continually demands ever more prominent display of gruesome images of death and disease on cigarette packages while it has fanatically and immorally blocked clearly attainable [http://tctactics.org/index.php/Reduced_Risk_Cigarettes;_Tobacco_Control%27s_Egregious_Resistance_to_a_Moral_Imperative risk reduction of the cigarettes themselves] for decades now.
 The following audio is more than just a discussion about plain tobacco packaging. It's a must listen to discover or rediscover many of the shenanigans in tobacco control.{{#ev:youtube|OrrHSyMdKAw|433|left|Voice of Russia}}

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	It must also be noted that Tobacco Control continually demands ever more prominent display of gruesome images of death and disease on cigarette packages while it has fanatically and immorally blocked clearly attainable [[Reduced Risk\|risk reduction of the cigarettes themselves]] for decades now.		It must also be noted that Tobacco Control continually demands ever more prominent display of gruesome images of death and disease on cigarette packages while it has fanatically and immorally blocked clearly attainable [[Reduced Risk\|risk reduction of the cigarettes themselves]] for decades now.

−	The following ~~video~~ is more than just a discussion about plain tobacco packaging. It's a must ~~watch~~ to discover or rediscover many of the shenanigans in tobacco control.{{#ev:youtube\|OrrHSyMdKAw\|433\|left\|Voice of Russia}}	+	The following audio is more than just a discussion about plain tobacco packaging. It's a must listen to discover or rediscover many of the shenanigans in tobacco control.{{#ev:youtube\|OrrHSyMdKAw\|433\|left\|Voice of Russia}}

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	It must also be noted that Tobacco Control continually demands ever more prominent display of gruesome images of death and disease on cigarette packages while it has fanatically and immorally blocked clearly attainable [[Reduced Risk\|risk reduction of the cigarettes themselves]] for decades now.		It must also be noted that Tobacco Control continually demands ever more prominent display of gruesome images of death and disease on cigarette packages while it has fanatically and immorally blocked clearly attainable [[Reduced Risk\|risk reduction of the cigarettes themselves]] for decades now.

−	The following video is more than just a discussion about plain tobacco packaging. It's a must watch to discover or rediscover many of the shenanigans in tobacco control.	+	The following video is more than just a discussion about plain tobacco packaging. It's a must watch to discover or rediscover many of the shenanigans in tobacco control.{{#ev:youtube\|OrrHSyMdKAw\|433\|left\|Voice of Russia}}
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	The following video is more than just a discussion about plain tobacco packaging. It's a must watch to discover or rediscover many of the shenanigans in tobacco control.		The following video is more than just a discussion about plain tobacco packaging. It's a must watch to discover or rediscover many of the shenanigans in tobacco control.
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	The following video is more than just a discussion about plain tobacco packaging. It's a must watch to discover or rediscover many of the shenanigans in tobacco control.		The following video is more than just a discussion about plain tobacco packaging. It's a must watch to discover or rediscover many of the shenanigans in tobacco control.
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	The following video is more than just a discussion about plain tobacco packaging. It's a must watch to discover or rediscover many of the shenanigans in tobacco control.		The following video is more than just a discussion about plain tobacco packaging. It's a must watch to discover or rediscover many of the shenanigans in tobacco control.
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	It must also be noted that Tobacco Control continually demands ever more prominent display of gruesome images of death and disease on cigarette packages while it has fanatically and immorally blocked clearly attainable [[Reduced Risk\|risk reduction of the cigarettes themselves]] for decades now.		It must also be noted that Tobacco Control continually demands ever more prominent display of gruesome images of death and disease on cigarette packages while it has fanatically and immorally blocked clearly attainable [[Reduced Risk\|risk reduction of the cigarettes themselves]] for decades now.
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		+	The following video is more than just a discussion about plain tobacco packaging. It's a must watch to discover or rediscover many of the shenanigans in tobacco control.
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 Complicating problems noted above are recent attempts by Tobacco Control to mandate so-called plain packaging. The cigarette packet designs advocated would very certainly not be "plain" as they would still glare with Tobacco Control's ever-favored and positively nauseous color photos (a couple of examples above on this page) of diseased body parts or corpses.
-As has been proposed, frantic warnings with the gory graphics would appear at the top, and covering most of the surface, on both larger sides of each packet. What would be changed fundamentally – which is to say removed – are the identifying typefaces and "logos" of individual brands. Brand names would have to appear only in standardized typeface and only in black and white on the smaller portion of the pack remaining below the horrific image.
+As has been proposed, frantic warnings with the grisly graphics would appear at the top, and covering most of the surface, on both larger sides of each packet. What would be changed fundamentally – which is to say removed – are the identifying typefaces and "logos" of individual brands. Brand names would have to appear only in standardized typeface and only in black and white on the smaller portion of the pack remaining below the horrific image.
 Apart from utterly incinerating the principle of intellectual property rights, and creating another practical horror for shop owners attempting to sort and distribute packets according to their brands, these "plain" packets would benefit nothing and nobody (excepting of course today's many busy cigarette counterfeiters, who would necessarily delight in having but one packet style to forge, in the place of dozens).