If this strikes you as rather unappetizing, well, that’s the point.
Smoking gets uglier
Today the FDA announces new packaging rules for cigarettes. Packages will be required to display a graphic photo of the effects of smoking at their ugliest, as pictured above, along with one of a choice of direct statements such as “Smoking can kill you.”
I’m all for it, even though it is not lost on me that our government is financially dependent on tax revenue from the very habit it purports to seek to end.
Click here to read the entire story on the CNN Health site.
—Steve Cuno
Today the FDA announces new packaging rules for cigarettes. Packages will be required to display a graphic photo of the effects of smoking at their ugliest, as pictured above, along with one of a choice of direct statements such as “Smoking can kill you.”
I’m all for it, even though it is not lost on me that our government is financially dependent on tax revenue from the very habit it purports to seek to end.
Click here to read the entire story on the CNN Health site.
—Steve Cuno
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