If Truth in Advertising Comes to Cigarettes, Let’s Do It for Planned Parenthood Too
Smokers will be getting some new graphics on their cigarette packaging : It’s going to be harder to feel “alive with pleasure” with a photo of an emaciated man, dying of cancer, staring back at you from your cigarette package. The Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that it will require such graphic images to be placed on the front and back of cigarette packages as part of a radical new campaign to keep teens from lighting up and to push longtime smokers to quit. The FDA set a June 22, 2011 deadline for tobacco companies to redesign their packaging to include the images. They will also be required to place the jarring images on cigarette cartons. Last night Allahpundit suggested that if these graphics are necessary for consumers to understand the risk, then perhaps photos of aborted fetuses should be required to be on display in abortion clinics. Wouldn’t Planned Parenthood offices look nice with dismembered fetuses on the wall? After all, we need to show consumers the risks of using their products.
If Truth in Advertising Comes to Cigarettes, Let’s Do It for Planned Parenthood Too
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on November 11, 2010. Filed under