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China Netizens Discuss Scary Thai Cigarette Warning Labels

by on Saturday, May 9, 2009 33 comments comments

From Mop:

Cigarette pack looks horrifying in Thailand, in order to persuade people not to smoke, Thai government and other associated government bodies have ordered to include the partial pictures of smokers who were suffering from smoking-related disease onto cigarette packs.

Thai Cigarette Pack 1

Most countries in Europe and Hong Kong special administration region require cigarette packs to have “Smoking Kills” or “Smoking may cause cancer” or similar statements to be printed onto the smoking packs, so that these warning messages can be seen at the time when smoker purchasing or consuming the cigarette. These warning messages may leave some degree of impact on smokers unconsciously over the long term. The reason behind is to protect the national health.

Thai Cigarrete Pack

Compare with the warning messages in Hong Kong and other places, Thai cigarette packs even have pictures on them, in a bid to persuade people to give up smoking and to promote healthy life style. These pictures seem to have a greater effect when comparing with just having the warning messages alone, especially for those youngsters who are starting to smoke.

Thai Cigarrete 3

Comments From Mop:

lyjlwl【面朝大海Ж春暖花开】:

Cigarette packs in our country are so beautiful. [sarcasm]

埋葬吾爱【烟盟•在猫扑中燃烧】:

No smoking, no drinking, then there will be no meaning of life.

她给我咬:

Ever since the day when I started smoking, I had decided to hand in my life for that.

匿名人士162514:

For the purpose of tax, the government has rejected to put pictures on the smoking packs, even trying to reduce the size of “Smoking Kills” message to as small as possible, hehe, in order to increase the GDP, the health of normal citizens is nothing.

三只脚的猪:

If anyone forces me to give up smoking, I’d offer him a knife and ask him to kill me instead.

［呆尒驴］:

Faint .. I wouldn’t smoke when I was looking at the pictures. However, when I was not looking, I would still smoke.

梦醉青楼:

Another few days left, I will have given up smoking for a month.

james19797:

I saw “Smoking may cause Erectile Dysfunction” on the cigarette pack when I was in Hong Kong. That is more useful than the “Smoking Kills” message in (mainland) China.

︶ㄣ遺』莣←:

Disgusting.

Another Mop commenter, 葱爆菊花【敲开幸福的门】, posted more examples from Thailand:

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  • Alikese

    Ugghhh, in China during meals we would always leave our packs out on the table so anyone could grab one. Thailand… not so much. We would have to cover the packs up with napkins or shirts so we wouldn’t spew curry sauce all over ourselves from seeing a picture of a cancerous tumor.

  • zuggy pop

    giving up smoking is easy.

    I’ve done it 100s of times…

  • Celkian

    The best warning would be “Why are you purposely trying to get addicted to something so that it feels good? Here is a list of drugs that feel good right away…”

  • pug_ster

    I recall that they do the same thing in Hong Kong. I hope that they do the same thing in China.

  • http://sensengu1986.spaces.live.com/ Sensen

    Don’t give up giving up, hehe

  • http://www.tctype.com Chinamatt

    Nice that someone pointed out the Hong Kong packs. I definitely thought the best smoking deterrent was the one that said “Smoking may cause erectile dysfunction.”

  • PRStar

    100 Packets!

  • JonnyD

    In Canada, ours all have the pictures as well as the standard warning labels. Its almost like horrifying trading cards. Gee, which one do you have? Like adult garbage pale kid cards ;)

  • http://www.nanjinged.com Nanjinged

    The only way this would happen in China is if a high ranking official’s brother just bought a factory that produces those metal ciggarette cases ;)

  • Samael

    thats why i smoke weed instead

  • http://sydneyphoto.blogspot.com michael2

    Go to any big town in Yunnan (Dali for example) and see what the most extravagant building in town is .. it will always be the Tobacco Producer one. Even more magalomaniac than the PSB.

  • Peteryang

    Yes it is disturbing, but taking morphine every 4 hours in IC unit straining family wealth that makes everybody sad is much more disturbing.

  • pug_ster

    One way to make you quit is hit where it really hurts in your wallet. In NYC, a pack of cancer sticks cost $10 US.

  • 忠诚烟民

    Only effete Western imperialists and their South Asian lackeys get cancer. The steel lungs of the Chinese were forged in the smoke and fury of revolutionary triumph and scorn such bourgeois concerns.

    • Peteryang

      and my big john too.

  • hillpark

    They do the same thing in Malaysia, there are only 6–10 different kinds of cigas here. China has 300 million smokers, the highest in the world.

    We got to smoke more for the sake of our nation, especially during the recession. FUCK

  • Question

    Here’s a question, why would you pay money to reduce your lifespan? How stupid can you be?

    • http://thisendlessroad.com Bagger King

      You want to live past 80?

      Sometimes the risk of cancer seems better than the risk of having someone change your old man diapers and push you around in a wheel chair.

      They say every cigarette knocks 7 minutes of your life away. If I smoke a pack a day for 20 years… I should be able to avoid around 2 years of suffering in my older years!

      • Va

        Well, having health problems from smoking also cause sufferings too. Think about someone who suffers from COPD (chronic bronchitis, emphysema, chronic asthma)or lung cancer, etc. They can’t even function on their own without assistant or using home oxygen. Yes, you said it’s better off if you died earlier and not live to old age and suffer but if you smoke, u don’t just died, you suffer first! Just my opinion.

  • Yang

    Hmmm Thailand sells Dunhill too!

    In Australia we used to have “Smoking Kills” and all that on the packets but then they started introducing the vivid imagery as well (below)

    http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/health-pubhlth-strateg-drugs-tobacco-warning-packs-B.htm

  • fireworks

    Health warnings on cigarette packs are not new. It is very common in western countries. It is very graphic and does its job in informing smokers.

    I would like to see those warnings on mainland cigarettes. People on the mainland smoke like chimneys and the health regulations are still not up to first world standards.

    In countries like Singapore, Australia, smoking is ban indoors, licensed restaurants and clubs. Some have smoking only rooms.

  • Joe #2

    Both of my grandfathers were killed by cigarettes. As well as another man who was like a grandfather to me. All three of them quit when they found out that the cigarette companies were lying when they claimed that smoking didn’t cause problems. One of my grandfathers never lived to see either me or older brother. My parents did not tell him that mom was pregnant, because they knew he would not live long enough to see my older brother be born. I have very fond memories of my other grandfather, but he suffered horribly before he died. He broke his back while picking up a gallon of milk because his bones had become frail due to the steroids required to help him breathe. My good friend, who was like a grandfather, died just over a month ago. He though he was just fine, but around New Year’s, he found out that he only had a few months to live.

    I sometimes wonder if there’s any way to cause the tobacco plant to go extinct.

    • Ed

      The problem isn’t the tobacco plant, the real problem is the government lying. that basically happened 40 years ago with the US also! China is just catching up now. Back then in the US, smoking was a glamourous thing to do with the advertisements and you where in “flavour country” when you did it.

      Killing the tobacco plant won’t do a thing cause they would just find something else to addict/tax you with. Marijuana isn’t a good alternative either but I bet they’d push for it if tobacco went.

  • Mr Chen

    I used to smoke 1 pack of cigarette a day for the past 15 years of my life. Recently about 6 months ago, I decided to move on my life, I was struggling to breathe properly after jogging for less then 10 mins. It was a struggle to quit at 1st. Especially the morning cigarette just right after breakfast or after a heavy meal (smokers will know what I am talking about).

    But later on after the 1st month is was relatively easy.
    One time I was out drinking alcohol (2 months after I offically quit) I got pissed drunk and ask my friend if I can have a cigarette because I “USED TO THINK” that cigarette goes really well with tobacco.

    Boy was I wrong, after 2 puffs I simply had to put it out.. after that, I have not touched a single cigarette and I was convinced that I will never ever touch a cigarette in my life ever again.

    I sincerly hope that people will know the ill-effects of smoking and it is your own will that can fight the addiction of Nicotine and that justifiably, it is ONE of the MOST DEADLIEST DRUG that has ever been LEGAL on the planet. It is obvious that these tobacco companies makes billions of dollars from people like us without the disregard of our health.

  • Arturo

    I just wonder why so many gays posted replies on this topic. You smoker, you gay, you suck this, you will suck that too. Why not? There is smoke it mine too. Try it, you will love it.
    I sucked 30 years, my father died a horrible death coz of smoking, he lost his young family, 2 young boys…a nice wife…
    I put floweres now on his grave.
    So, cigi is more powerful that your desire to live? You are so stupid? can’t you find a better way to enjoy this one life? Like fucking a girl or drinking beer?

    • realist

      cry more, you pussy.

      your father died because he was weak. you are the son of a weakling.

      he could have kicked it anytime.

      if he did not, that is because he was a pussy.

  • realist

    yeah, rite. as if people only are dying because of smoking.

    life itself is deadly. deal with it. otherwise, go and kill yourself.

  • Stephan Larose

    Smoking is pretty scary to me, nobody would do it if it weren’t incredibly addictive. Every one of my friends that has tried to quit cannot do it. The companies get you when you’re young and stupid, before you realize that if you’re lungs are unhealthy your quality of life goes down, basically you get fat and ugly. You can’t really stop smokers from smoking though, if they want to smell like an ashtray, have brown teeth, cough phlegm, and become society’s most unattractive people, by all means, its their right, just don’t smoke by me when I’m eating or I’ll break the fingers holding the cigarette.

  • thomas

    price can be a far better mechanism to combat smoking.
    people will just choose to ignore the pics and continue smoking, whereas price is quite tangible, especially for the youth. Besides, these pics appear to be surreal, and sickness in this level does not happen very often.

  • alex

    Those pictures don’t work, people STUPID enough to smoke will continue, if they don’t like the pictures they can just cover them or take the cigs outta the packs. Well if the government encourage smoking then it’s not gonna stop- they want money, they don’t give a sh!t about your lives, too many people already anyway. This is one of the many things I’m ashamed of when I go back to China I see people smoking in public places. Makes me want to barf.

  • http://soundcloud.com/ggoodei-mc/tracks GGooDeiMC

    Yeah. Can we get these photos posted on our cigarette boxes here in America.

    WHOA!

  • http://hi5.com/ Benneth

    Excellent information about the health I really enjoyed this information thanks!!!

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