[Newsbot]

Title: Canada to put bigger health warnings on cigarettes
Category: Health
Posted By: andyt
Date: 2010-12-30 10:18:25
Canadian

[GreenTiger]

How about business cards for ocal Morticians?

[Unsound]

The best part of being an ex-smoker is I don't have to have an opinion on these things anymore.

[PJB]

I smoke and am going to try to quit in the New Year so I have seen the evolution of these warnings on cigarettes. Do they work? who knows. Did they work for me. Nope. They could put the warning on 100% of the package and it wouldn't work until the person WANTS to quit. What the governments should do is make it illegal for anyone under the age of majority to possess cigarettes. I know that several, iif not all, provinces have legislation that makes it illegal for people under 18 or whatever to puchase cigarettes but yet it is still legal for them to possess smokes. Make it illegal and see what happens.

[Zipperfish]

Meh--if I really thought it was about stopping kids from starting on the first place, I could give it some support. But I don't think it's about that. Kids don't see death as anything that will happen to them, no matter how many pictures of dying people you stick in front of them.

This is just a pissing match between the tobacco and anti-tobacco. All the anti-smoking guy was talking about on the news yesterday was how this was going to make the the tobacco companies "scream." The thought was obviously giving him a woody. It's the Merchants of Death versus the Nanny Statists. Any luck, they'll annihilate each other.

[Bodah]

If anything the labels should be about how to quit smoking. Linking this guy site http://allencarr.com/central/ would do alot more good than any of these silly labels for example.

The Tobacco control branch of the government are under the impression that smokers are a bunch of dumb-asses and aren't aware that their habbit has a good chance of killing them.

They are quite aware of it. These graphic labels are a waste of resources.

And actually the government wants people to smoke if they didn't they could make it illegal easily. Just a bunch of fucking hypocrisy.

One arm of the government happily collecting billions while sinking 2% of tobacco revenues to make smokers feel like dumb-asses for their habbits.

[Zipperfish]

Bodah Bodah:

If anything the labels should be about how to quit smoking. Linking this guy site http://allencarr.com/central/ would do alot more good than any of these silly labels for example.

Exactly. I don't get why they don't have some government-funded quit smoking programs. I suspect it's because they're raking it in with both hands from the addicts.

[PJB]

Saskatchewan has finally decided to have two anti-smoking prescription drugs covered under the provincial drug plan. They seem to be ahead of the rest in seeing that smoking is an addiction and are making these drugs more affordable. I am filling my prescription as soon as I get back.

[Zipperfish]

PJB PJB:

Saskatchewan has finally decided to have two anti-smoking prescription drugs covered under the provincial drug plan. They seem to be ahead of the rest in seeing that smoking is an addiction and are making these drugs more affordable. I am filling my prescription as soon as I get back.

Good luck!!!!

[Unsound]

PJB PJB:

Saskatchewan has finally decided to have two anti-smoking prescription drugs covered under the provincial drug plan. They seem to be ahead of the rest in seeing that smoking is an addiction and are making these drugs more affordable. I am filling my prescription as soon as I get back.

I second the Good Luck!

If Champix is one of the drugs that's covered I highly reccomend it. It really was almost magic for me. I had a few kinda weird side effects, but found that reducing the amount I took pretty much got rid of those with diminishing the good I got out of the drug.

[DrCaleb]

Unsound Unsound:

PJB PJB:

Saskatchewan has finally decided to have two anti-smoking prescription drugs covered under the provincial drug plan. They seem to be ahead of the rest in seeing that smoking is an addiction and are making these drugs more affordable. I am filling my prescription as soon as I get back.

I second the Good Luck!

If Champix is one of the drugs that's covered I highly reccomend it. It really was almost magic for me. I had a few kinda weird side effects, but found that reducing the amount I took pretty much got rid of those with diminishing the good I got out of the drug.

Thirding the good luck! I too quit, but cold turkey. It's relatively simple, just never put a cigarette in your mouth and light it ever again. That's the easy part.

Look up Zip's Alan Carr guy. It's his business to help you quit cold turkey.

[Brenda]

Fourthing the good luck! I did the same as Dr Caleb.

[Bodah]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

Thirding the good luck! I too quit, but cold turkey. It's relatively simple, just never put a cigarette in your mouth and light it ever again. That's the easy part.

Look up Zip's Alan Carr guy. It's his business to help you quit cold turkey.

The first time I quit I used the patch the last time read Alan Carr's book. He makes it amazingly simple to quit. He makes sense about the withdrawl pangs that its no big deal really and only lasts for 3 days.

I used his trick whenever I got the hunger for a smoke during those three days by telling myself. "yup that's the nicotine monster dying"

[Public_Domain]

[PJB]

champix and Zyban are covered. i went on Zyban a few years back and it really worked. i quit for damn near nine months but stress and shit dragged me back. This time i am going to take zyban and quit!