Cigarette Warnings No Longer Have a Shock Result
The Gillard fearing that old cigarette warnings no longer have a shock value, unveiled new images of a urine bag over a hole in the abdomen, a limb lost to gangrene and more, which tobacco manufacturers will have to use after the plain packaging laws go into effect next July.
These graphic images cover 75% instead of the current 30% of each Esse cigarettes pack, and are meant to scare smokers into kicking the habit. Calling them confronting, Health Minister Nicola Roxon said if she had been a smoker, put off by them, she would have certainly stopped smoking.
The ad featuring the picture of a man with a bag filled with urine hanging from a hole in his stomach, warns that smoking causes cancer of the bladder.
The body removes cancer causing chemicals present in tobacco smoke via the urine, which factor is a major cause for bladder cancer, involving the removal of the bladder and the use of a bag to collect the urine.
Another ad describes slow suffocation from smoking-related emphysema, showing a skeletal man with an emaciate frame and painful jutting of cheeks and ribs, lying in a hospital bed, which image contrasts with that of the same man from the previous year, showing a healthy young man.
The text tells of how the man began smoking as a teenager, and dying aged 34 years after being diagnosed with lung cancer.
The ads also target cigar smokers, showing a picture of a hole in someone’s throat, with the warning that one does not need to inhale to run the risk of cancer of the throat and voice box.
There are ads also for mother who smoke during pregnancy, showing a tiny premature baby on life support, carrying the warning that smoking in
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