| Spoof cigarette warnings slammed | |||
The stickers aim to make smoking "less stressful" with fag-friendly messages like "smoking is cool" and "you could get hit by a bus tomorrow". However, anti-smoking groups criticised the website and have urged smokers to spend money on nicotine replacement therapies instead. 'Light relief' The website, fakefags.co.uk, sells packs of 20 stickers for £3.99. Edmond Bramhall, who set up the website, said the stickers aimed to provide light relief for smokers.
"We set up the site because when I saw the new health warnings, I thought they were very stark and obvious. They are very serious," he told BBC News Online. "I think people all over the country have been thinking up slogans they would like to see instead. "It is meant to be a bit of a laugh." Mr Bramhall is a reformed smoker. He said the stickers are not meant to undermine government policies to encourage people to kick the habit. "If I thought the stickers were really undermining the effectiveness of health warnings I wouldn't have done it. "I really don't think putting these stickers on cigarette packets detracts awareness from the fact that smoking is bad for health. "Everyone knows that. Everyone knows that smoking is bad for health. "But I think a lot of people have been put out by the government telling them that smoking is bad for them." Stickers slammed The charity No Smoking Day urged people not to buy the stickers. Its spokeswoman Doreen McIntyre said: "It is quite amusing but I think the important thing is that this is a demonstration of how disrupting these health warnings are.
"They are causing smokers to feel that they need to cover them up "It is a very difficult thing to be confronted with what is really in these products. All of this helps smokers to overcome their ambivalence to smoking," she told BBC News Online. "My advice to smokers would be don't buy these stickers. Spend your money on nicotine replacement therapies instead and give up." Deborah Arnott of anti-smoking group ASH criticised the labels. "These labels do not strike me as being funny," she told BBC News Online. "Telling people that smoking is cool is a dangerous message. That's why people take it up," she said. "Cigarettes kill 50% of users, many in middle age. It also significantly increases the risks of lung and heart disease and some people even have to have limbs cut off because of circulation problems caused by smoking. None of that is funny." The Department of Health believes the new health warnings are proving effective. It said that more than 10,000 people have contacted the NHS smoking helpline looking for help to quit since the labels were introduced. | |||
Spoof cigarette warnings slammed---Funny
by ashitaka 4 Replies latest jw friends
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ashitaka
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Gadget
These stickers would make me think about it more. People pay no attention to the warnings, but if they see something humourus it sticks in there minds so will have a bigger impact.
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Kenneson
Smoking is a cool LIE!
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Kenneson
That should be: Smoking is cool is a LIE!
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Francois
Just like a liberal to think the solution to a problem is to label it:
Guns can kill.
Do not use hair dryer in shower
Drinking during pregnancy causes low birth weight babies
Do not remove this sign
Smoking causes bad breath
Pay your taxes or we will kill you
No fishing are crabbing from bridge
The stickers aim to provide light relief to smokers
Spend your money on nicotine replacement therapies instead and give up 
Doreen McIntyre,