Will graphic images stop you smoking?

whats farcical about it?

It wont affect the present smokers, but will serve its purpose in reducing the rate of new smokers.

It's a bloody farce because I don't really want some skanky picture staring up at me.

Its funny how you depict the pictures to be vile, knowing FULLY well that its a consequence of smoking, and will happily continue smoking. Ever so slightly hypocritical...

Because it is my choice to live my life with little pleasures?

What is the point of living to one-hundred-and-fifty if in doing so I will never be able to enjoy the finer points of life. Chocolate. Saturated fat. Caffine. Base-jumping. Instead working 9-5, earning enough money to live comfortably yet never spending it. Working out in the gym, but not having the time to amble along a country path in the evening sun.

I'm sorry but I'd rather live in the here and now, experiment, have my vices, live life and to be frank, I don't need people to warn me of the consequenses... you can save that for the classroom because I'm going to learn from experience.

Hmmm, i never thought of it that way. I guess you've taught me something But we dont know if you'd be saying the same thing several years down the line...

Perhaps the risks of smoking are only recently being taken serious, but dont you agree the gradual phasing out of this past time is the ideal solution? I wouldnt know, but surely there are healthier alternatives?

Although the health risks are obvious, mabye it should say, this is what passive smoking may do to others around you or this is what your childs heart/lungs may look like, if you smoke and smoke near yout child or children. The same could also be applied to alcholic drinks but that affects the drinker only usually.

I guess you've never been bottled in the face by a raving drunkard.

I don't need a picture of a manky lung to tell me that. It would repulse me as much as a dead cow on the packet would. Not nice to look at, but not going to make me stop.

Smokers know all about the effect. The addiction is very tough to leave.

Haha, exactly. I've wittnessed my dad blacking out the icky pictures with a permanent marker...ingenious!

Don't talk rubbish. Yes, we do typically know the affects, however not giving it up has nothing to do with addiction.

I've posted something similar this before, but I just re-looked up the stat (it was Oxford Handbook of General Practice 2nd Ed if anyone's interested):

70% of smokers want to give up & 2% per year manage to permanently.

Why do the ~68% who want to stop fail to, if not because they're addicted?

I just laugh, laugh at you all. Bloody middle-class tory spawn, think you can all change the way we poor people think.