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Every time I head over to Singapore, or when a friend who lives there come back here, I cringe a little. No, no, it’s nothing personal. It’s just that many of them smoke and they always carry with them these hideous boxes with images of cancerous mouth and throats, and deformed foetuses.
I’m not sure if it is an effective campaign (after all, my friends are still smokers) but hey, if so many countries are implementing this policy, it has got to work at least a little. Which is perhaps why Malaysians will be faced with this grotesque images from January 1 next year.
Health Minister Datuk Liow Tiong Lai was reported in today’s The Star saying that the images must cover 40% of the front, and 60% of the back. That’s shit-loads of gross images on one tiny box, methinks.
“By Jan 1, each cigarette brand must have at least two of its products with these warnings. By next June, all cigarette packs must carry the warnings,” he told a press conference at his office here yesterday.
Woah! Well, my advice to my smoking friends is – quit now! I don’t want to have to see gross images like that lah. Already in my office lift areas, there’s a huge poster of a severely deformed person with arrows pointing to different parts of the body saying what smoking does to it.
That said, there are some images that catches my attention. I took this a couple of years ago in Singapore, along Orchard Road which I thought was a brilliant, brilliant idea!
5.37pm Malaysian time (+8 GMT)
Tags: cancer, cigarettes, liow tiong lai, lungs, smoking
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Dude…the images on the box wont put off a smoker man..I remember my friends going into a 7-11 there and asking the lady over the counter to give em the pack with the “family pic” because it was less gross!!
The add in orchard is superb but the best way i feel is
1) Banning smoking virtually everywhere
2) Increasing the price to a crazy amount.. RM30 a pack maybe??
That will put off a lot of people! If they want serious results they must take drastic measures man..if not susah!
Hey Abi!
Yeah, I think there is not enough smoke-free places in KL. And RM30 a pack? Haha good one. Might as well just ban the sale of ciggies
Okay Im soooo stealing that pic for personal use!
i think it works to a certain extent – nz does the same as well, all gross and gory on cigarette packets. and if the aim is to scare, then i think it’s working – some smokers resort to buying these cigarette-packet cases thingy so they can just stuff the packets into them and not have to see the blood and mess!
maybe they should put stickers of sad foetuses on the cigarette sticks as well…