Have you heard?
The FDA has proposed using graphic, color images to warn consumers about the negative effects of abortion?
I wish.
Rather, this week the FDA unveiled 36 proposed warning labels for cigarette packages. Several of them depict graphic images showing the negative effects of smoking. For example, one shows a toe tag on a dead body. Another shows a man exhaling smoke through a hole in his neck.
The proposed images would cover half the cigarette package. They’re required under a law passed last year that was part of the Obama administration’s tobacco control plan that costs $250 million.
“We want to not only support the new FDA regulatory authority but reinvigorate the national commitment to ending the tobacco epidemic,” said Dr. Howard Koh, the assistant secretary for health.
I have a suggestion.
Perhaps the FDA could create similar graphic campaigns for other things which are not so good for us.
For example, images of cancer could be placed on packages of contraceptives. Images of totaled cars could be placed on bottles of alcohol. And images of aborted babies could be placed on the doors of Planned Parenthood and every other abortion business, in an effort to remind customers of the dangers associated with oral contraceptives, alcohol-use, and abortion.
It’s just a thought. If it works with cigarettes, perhaps it would work elsewhere.
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It is mind-boggling how boldly they push their double standard and people just take it.
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We should fight against the “abortion culture” But along with that it is necessary to create awareness about the goodness of a moral life that will result in a peaceful family life. A spiritual awakening that will help reduction of infidelity and premarital sex is a must
So i’m curious why the tobacco industry isn’t making a huge deal about this? After all, it’s hurting them by cutting into their sales??! I can see PP and other abortion=related industries crying foul all over the place if this happened to their ‘livelihood’!
@ Suzanne A SLUPESKY
The Federal and state governments crow about the tax rates helping to stop smoking and saving the states billions in future health care costs. In truth, they don’t want a total ban on tobacco.
In 2009 the Federal government grossed just over $8.5 billion in tobacco taxes. That money does not all go to anti-tobacco campaigns, either. And in the most recent tobacco tax increases which went into effect last year, the legislation banned flavor additives for cigarettes, except for mentholated cigarettes. Why? Because that could in effect eliminate almost 1/3 of the tax revenue for the states if menthol cigarettes were banned, and if menthol smokers did not switch to non-mentholated brands.
In 2008 the states collected over $16.5 billion in tobacco taxes. Three states which have no personal income tax collected the following in tobacco taxes in 2008 : Florida $443,732,000; Tennessee $272,433,000; and Texas $1,446,895,000.
In my opinion, the anti-tobacco rhetoric is simply political rhetoric that keeps the public thinking the governments, both federal and states want to eliminate tobacco, which in reality would be akin to killing the goose that layed the golden egg. If states lost all that tax revenue due to a ban on tobacco, people who have never seen a state income tax would almost certainly be looking at one.
And perhaps we should require so-called Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPC’s) to also put upon their doors graphic pictures of what ILLEGAL abortion looks like to remind everyone that illegal abortion as a public policy never stopped abortion, maims and kills women and doesn’t save babies and to remind people there’s a better way to reduce the need for abortion.
http://www.lifeandlibertyforwomen.org/abortion_pictorial.html Peggy Loonan, founder and executive director of Life and Liberty for Women
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