Is smoking the only thing that kills?
Pictorial warnings are disturbing. Each time I see one of them, I need to barf. I see those cartons, even though I don't smoke. Even though I don't carry cigarette cartons with me. Will the pictures stop me from ever smoking a cigarette? No. Will they make me want others to stop smoking? No. As kids, our parents made us do certain things by telling us some horror story. Athamma used to get rid of my brother and I when she was making milk toffees by telling us that the gonibilla will eat the milk toffees if we disturb her. We stayed away because we thought the gonibilla would actually eat the nice, gooey toffee. Are these anti-tobacco companies aiming at scaring the living hell out of us so that we would stop smoking? Is that why they want non-smokers to also be forced to see such gruesome pictures? In most stores, the cigarette shelf is kept just above the cashier. These stores sell more than cigarettes and we have to pay for goods at that cashier where, just above the ca...