Friday, January 2, 2009

Random Thai Stuff - Graphic Warnings on Cigarette Packages

When graphic warnings first became mandatory on Canadian cigarette packaging, it sounded like a good way to get the point across.  We have kids on packages (title: Don't poison us), droopy cigarette ash (Tobacco use can make you impotent), people on life support (Cigarettes cause lung cancer) and more.

Thai cigarette packaging is way more intense.  Every time I walk by  a cigarette stand it blows me away.  The pictures show tracheal-tube holes, rotting teeth, cancerous lips, last rites on corpses - the Thailand's ministry of health decided that gritty was the way to go with their messaging.  

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