I know it’s an anecdote but I work in retail and there is no shortage of people buying cigarettes. We have more types, flavors, and selections of ways to smoke yourself into the ground not a one who cares about the warning. I just personally think the advertising and making it look good was what actually pushed them onto new users. People know it’ll kill you, what they need to forget is the lie that it’s cool, yummy, or fun.
This isn’t aimed to stop everyone from using it, but to lower the number. There is no claim that warning labels have halted all sales of cigarettes, just that a correlation between the labels and fewer cigarettes exists. There may even be evidence that backs up causation, but I’m not familiar with the topic so can’t speak to it.
One of the supporting arguments is literally that it was effective against cigarettes…
I know it’s an anecdote but I work in retail and there is no shortage of people buying cigarettes. We have more types, flavors, and selections of ways to smoke yourself into the ground not a one who cares about the warning. I just personally think the advertising and making it look good was what actually pushed them onto new users. People know it’ll kill you, what they need to forget is the lie that it’s cool, yummy, or fun.
This isn’t aimed to stop everyone from using it, but to lower the number. There is no claim that warning labels have halted all sales of cigarettes, just that a correlation between the labels and fewer cigarettes exists. There may even be evidence that backs up causation, but I’m not familiar with the topic so can’t speak to it.