US court rejects graphic cigarette warnings

comebackgirl

Godfather. wrote:

comebackgirl wrote:

Scare tactics don't generally work. If they did, I would have stopped wearing heels after my co-worker showed me her bunions :sick:

that would'a did for me
oooohhhh that was funny..sorry if you were serious but it just painted a funny picture of a pair of feet with bunions and band-aids stuffed into some open toed spike-heels.

Godfather.

That was pretty much my reaction...and now you've made me relive the visual :shock: But I'm much too short to let that stop me

I think the problem with scare tactics targeted towards adolescents is that they don't believe any of that will actual happen to them. Part of being an adolescent is the sense of invincibility that comes along with it, thus the high level of risk taking. The part of the brain that has to do with risk taking and anticipating consequence isn't fully developed yet, but developmentally teens are focused on developing a sense of identity and they use their peers as a framework. A lot of interventions recognize the high influence of peers on this age group, so programs are more geared toward social norms. Of course most of the research I have is from sources that support the social norms approach, so who knows how accurate those stats are. There is definitely some skepticism against this approach as well, but developmentally it seems like social norming would make more sense.

catefrances

Zoso wrote:

a new law just passed in Australia for this to happen.. good move there but Australia is always going to be move progressive then here.

this is incorrect. the law that just passed was for plain cigarette packaging, removing the colourful, sometimes iconic look of some brands. it was way back in the 70s that the first public health warning appeared on cigarette packs in australia and 2006 for the graphic images to be displayed. imo the graphic images displayed are more to discourage new smokers. the first time i saw a cigarette pack with the words SMOKING KILLS printed on it, i thought i was hallucinating. oh and australia was talking about passing a law that states it will be illegal for anyone born after the year 2000 to buy cigarettes. :think: