More pronounced warning labels?

[tom502]

Just curious, as I haven't seen these in the store(yet), but I hear they are real, on US dip products, and I think chew too, and have been seen around. And it made me wonder if imported, or US made(like General) snus will have to start doing this as well?

[lxskllr]

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[tom502]

Thanks. I hear the new label has to take up a 1/3 of the can top.

[lxskllr]

I hate that crap. I'd like to see manufacturers use removable labels for the warning. I'd pay extra to have the ability to easily take them off.

[tom502]

It kinda reminds me of the the 80's when everything was a diet craze, and all these new items came out that were diet, and labeled, yet people only got fatter. I tend to think we had less tobacco "related" issues back in the day before this label fanaticism too off.

[Veganpunk]

They've started doing it with snus already. It makes the sexy Jaks. Wintergreen can look like a 2 dollar hooker. There was another brand I just recently got (can't remember which one it was though) that had a larger then normal waring label on it.

[Phager]

Those labels are completly retarded. I mean, honestly, who the hell doesn't know that nicotine is addictive? I know, I know, it's another "Save the children" BS thing. Funny thing is, last I checked most teenagers have an immortality complex along with an "It can't happen to me" attitude, I know I sure did. So who exactly is this helping, again? Seems like it's going to be viewed more as a challange then anything else.

@ VeganPunk I got one of the new warning labels on a can of Thunder Frosted recently. Not as pronounced as the Jaks WG, but still took up half the side of the tin.

Pat

[Treath]

I saw them too. Just to clear it up, are the warnings removable on the dip cans?

[Veganpunk]

You're right, It was Offroad Frosted that I saw them on. And I don't know about the dip cans, but the V2 products are printed on the label, not just a sticker stuck on there.

[sgreger1]

The thunder frosted I got a bit ago had HUGE warning labels, all with different warning, everything from this isn't a safe alternative to cigs, all the way to this product WILL give you mouth cancer. I was like "wtf, this warning is larger than the Thunder logo, who's idea was this?

[danielan]

Well, I think it started with the Europeans. Their cigarettes have had these huge warning labels for quite awhile. I think they added pictures of lungs and teeth a few years later.

So, the FDA decided we had to do it too, since not doing so would mean that we don't care as much as the EU does - somehow.

I think the basic principle is that, like when you talk to someone who you think won't understand you, this is like talking louder.

Either that, or we have a big problem with people who can't see well using tobacco.

[snusjus]

The irony is, cigarettes still have a tiny Surgeon General's Warning on the side:

You'd think the FDA would prioritize cigarette warning labels before smokeless tobacco labels. I heard the new cigarette warnings won't be on packs until 2012. I'm sure it has to do with all the tax revenue made off cigarettes...

[socal70xr7]

How stupid is that! More anti tobacco Nazi work paid for with our tax dollars!

[Jwalker]

I think it makes the can look appealing. PM must employe psychology majors. I serious had a craving to go buy a can of skoal mint. That must be why they did the new cans which look weird without the warning label.

[Jwalker]

They should have canadian and european warning labels of six diseases. I've heard the addiction rate to cigarettes is higher because kids collect the set of mouth caner, lung cancer, exploding eye, stomach caner, (pregnancy or Second hand smoke?), and something else. The eye is the hardest to get apparently. Since the I've never heard of blindness from smoking we could just make stuff up and do that mouth cancer, an embryo chewing tobacco, stomach cancer, lung cancer according to some idiot who said chew causes causes lung cancer, and the only true one warning chewing tobacco causes you to take larger craps.