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You know who's not on board with the Health Department's plan to make tobacco retailers display graphic anti-smoking posters? The New York Post, that's who. The tabloid is sick of the government telling us what's bad for us all the time, and someone in Murdoch's stable has penned a cranky editorial about it, darkly wondering how far this health-nut meddling go: "What's next? Mandatory autopsy attendance?" There's also a rockin' allusion to The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again": "Meet the new Tom—same as the old Tom." That's a reference to Tom Farley, Mayor Bloomberg's replacement for ex-city Health Commissioner Tom Frieden, who recently joined the Obama administration. Farley's assistant promises that with this new anti-smoking campaign, "You're going to see what a blackened lung looks like. You're going to see what mouth cancer looks like. You're going to see what it looks like when you have throat cancer." Awesome, right? But to the Post, this is just a blatant power grab: "Mayor Mike and his new health commisar mean to festoon food stores with massive, disgustingly graphic images because they can, not because they should." Basically, it's 1939 all over again! First they came for the smokers...
Graphic Anti-Smoking Signs, A Prelude To Health Nut Slavery?
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If what I've seen of these posters run true, this is a stupid attempt to curb a very addictive habit.
As I am at the checkout counter of my local deli with a egg salad sandwich and a can of soda, I sure as hell don't want to look at internal human decayed flesh. Talk about ruining one's appetite. Don't these people in City Hall think this shit out before they go ahead and mandate this crap?
Additionally smoking is not illegal. Stop policing people constantly.
>>>The New York Post, that's who. The tabloid is sick of the government telling us what's bad for us all the time
It's a bad precedent. Next thing you know, McDonald's will be showing blown-up posters of clogged arteries. I ignore the calorie and cholesterol counts at these places anyway, as it is.
I discourage smoking, but it's a legal product and showing blackened lungs and throat cancer in delis is going to stop me from entering delis -- I know smoking is bad already.
Outlaw the product, already. Guilt tripping me just makes me mad at the guilt tripper.
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I can't wait for some idiot downtown to state, "That due to the lost revenue from declining tobacco sales we will need to increase the tax on..."
I can't wait for some idiot downtown to state, "That due to the lost revenue from declining tobacco sales we will need to increase the tax on..."
Not so, the loss of cigarette tax revenue will be offset by the decline in spending on the medical and family care that we all have to pay to to sick and dying smokers.
"Not so, the loss of cigarette tax revenue will be offset by the decline in spending on the medical and family care that we all have to pay to to sick and dying smokers."
Do you really believe what you just said?
Eh delis should focus on selling food not cancer sticks.
Oh no! What could be next? Forcing food companies to display their ingredients and nutrional content on the packaging?? Sieg heil comrades!
"You're going to see what cervical cancer looks like...well, uh, um,...maybe not that one."
Why not? last I heard fucking wasn't illegal either; if these nazis can lecture you about one thing just use your imagination.
I think it's sadly ironic that all these enlightened and intellectually superior 'liberals' don't see anything wrong with any of this.
Then I guess NYPD cars had best put depictions of citizens with cracked skulls and batons jammed up their ass on the side doors.
Citizens need to be warned? Warn them.
Attacking smoking is a no brainer-yet alcohol consumption is applauded. They have even created lower carb beers to keep people drinking without their waistlines expanding. Binge smoking never led to anyone getting killed on the roadways. Useless politicians doing nothing as usual..