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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Wow is this new over there? Here in Australia we have strongly worded warnings about cancer and death along with photographs of fucked up looking feet from associated illnesses and people dying in hospital beds with breathing masks and tubes everywhere and fucked up looking lungs from autopsies of smokers.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Those sorts of warnings / graphic images are already present on the cigarette packaging in Canada. What's new is that now the warnings will also be printed directly on each individual cigarette!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Serves me right for commenting something based on the title and not reading the link linked article. It's even right there in the thumbnail

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

And every smoker already knows that cigarettes have lots of negative health effects but still smoke anyways because they like it and are willing to gamble. So I wonder what's the point in this?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I think they're saying they will put the warnings on individual cigarettes now. Not just the box