GirlHacker's Random Log

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Tobacco products sold in Canada will now be required to have graphical warnings on 50 per cent of their packaging. The products must also include inserted information on quitting and further details on the dangers of tobacco. I wonder if the various graphical warning labels will just be ignored after a while, or perhaps the government will rotate new ones in, which would make them harder to get used to. Using visuals is obviously a more effective device than text. My fourth grade teacher quit smoking after seeing human lungs on display at the Boston Museum of Science. They were taken from a smoker and were horribly blackened. She immediately stopped smoking; the image of those nasty lungs was burned into her brain forever.

Written by ltao

July 7th, 2000 at 4:35 am

Posted in Uncategorized