Will these stop you smoking?

this picture is a bit extreme, but I tell you after I had radiation for 7week my neck looked like raw hamburg and I never smoked a day in my life.

These commericials and ads keep getting better and better but unfortunately, it will not stop most people from smoking. Not many people grasp the fact that they have a nicotine addiction.

that is horrible...puff... how can anyone...puff puff...keep smoking...puff ...after seeing...puff...that. ahhhhh....tumors my favorite.

(most smokers reaction)

brockie-

its nicotine, its a habit. people do worse things to themselves all the time, it just doesn't happen to be cigarettes yet it is just as fatal.

That is so sick. Why would someone want to do that to their own body.

Very sad.

I never had the urge to smoke anyway. I cost too much and it smelled bad, besides, I'm horribly allergic.

no more than car crashes will stop people from drinking and driving. or pictures of war victims will prevent war. or abused children will prevent child abuse.

in other words...no.

dennis leary puts it perfectly in "no cure for cancer"

smokers know its bad, they don't care. its nicotine, its a habit, its a lifestyle for some, its cool and scene and whatever else sheeple love to do.

stopping is about will power, i smoked heavily for 4 years, one day i said no more, finished the pack i had and i haven't had a cig in a year. yeah its hard, yeah i still fight the urge at the gas station from time to time, but i haven't faltered nor will i.

people who want to smoke will, people who want to quit can, if they don't have the will to do it themselves, there are programs, gum, patches, pills, tons of stuff. telling them and showing them its bad doesn't change anything.

good job trying to guilt someone into living a way they don't want to live by the way...great job rob reiner's of the world. hey down another cholesterol laden cheeseburger, hypocritical bastards.

had i seen this 7 or 8 years ago, i might never had started... or even better, had i seen it as a little kid, i KNOW i would've never started...

tobacco (and alcohol) companies should be required to put the ingredients on the boxes, like everything else we consume...

Cancer does terrible things to people but this a rare and extreme case. In this sense it's dishonest. I'm not for misrepresenting medical facts to prove a point.

I would probably kill myself before I ended up looking like that... it's horrible!

yeah those pics are narley but they should show the money blown by buttheads in a years time. for me it was 1500.

No matter what people say to you, and what truths you know. The desire to quit smoking, and the will to follow though and never take another puff is an individual decision. I quit smoking after seven years because I started biking and couldn't keep up with myself. If you want to quit, it has to be for yourself, not even for your health. If that makes sense anyways...
I still have an occasional puff, but I don't need to smoke, just sometimes in social situations.

Photos of people's insides are going to make people go "eww" regardless of how infected/damaged/whatever it looks. Pictorial images may be the way forward, but the ick-factor isn't going to do much good.

Oh God. The facial hair over the tumor....I can't...

I agree that media advertising would have little effect but I think the objective here is to force you to look at the picture each time you buy a pack.

Adverising does not make people start nor does it make them stop.

Hard core smokers like me will train themselves to just not look at the picture. But if I didn't smoke and saw that picture I think it would have a strong effect on my decision to smoke or not.

Is there a real reason why people are still smoking?

You wanna know what made me quit smoking?

A combination of getting cancer at 17 (unrelated to smoking) and looking at pictures of cancerous vs. normal lungs. I'd rather my lungs looked like a nice salmon than a charred, blackened steak. So terrible.

Those who smoke know what they are doing to their bodies, but they like to conveniently forget it. Maybe this will be the little reminder they need to push them towards finally quitting and improving their lives exponentially!

mmm, it only makes me think of the movie "thank you for smoking," where they tried a similar approach and nick naylor basically gave them the reasons it was ridiculous. most people know the risks. will it scare younger smokers? perhaps, but there is no guarantee. certainly i agree that smoking is a bad habit but that's not really the point here. one of the many points the film makes is that for every ban or warning against smoking, you have lobbyists and others who will spin it around to promote their product....it ultimately comes down to political or corporate agendas...and each person's personal value system....shrug

My dad is a doctor and taught me about STD's much the same way... When I was about 11 or so he started talking to me about it... Then, at home, when I would go to the restroom and he would have medical journals open to some nasty images of STD's. I would look to see what it was and read a little about it... NASTY!!! It made an impact FOR SURE!!! Much the same as I think these cartons will on youngsters.

The only thing that will stop a person from smoking is their own desire to stop, combined with their own desire not to start again.

It looks like he has a tumor on his neck, thats pretty disgusting and his days of getting laid are over

I hope they stop kids from starting, but a picture, no matter how disgusting and worrying isnt going to stop my addiction...

plus smoking makes me look cool

This story is 2 months old!

As a nurse, trust me. There is nothing worse than 'Head and Neck Cancers". Now smoking is linked to 15 cancers. when I worked for Hospice, I was shocked at the number of people there who smoked. If the Hospice work did not stop them, nothing would. Seeing parts of peoples faces falling off is real. Nothing photo shopped about it. Just google it and you will fine a lot of cancers of head and neck due to many tobacco products, not just smoking.

I don't know which is more digusting. His mustache or tumor.

Every time I see some smuggled underground footage from PETA of the horrible abuse chickens endure in factory farms I make a vow to NEVER eat chicken again.

That vow lasts all the way up until lunch time when I go to Wendy's and order a #6 Spicy Chicken sandwhich combo.

Addiction (even to Wendy's combo meals) is far, far more powerful than logic.

That's what some of these anti-smoking groups don't seem to be realizing.

No, nasty pictures will not make people stop smoking. Sometimes shock value has no value.

OMG - the moustache that's hideous!

That's so disgusting... I need a smoke, afk....

Gross, yes, but what they don't show you is the kick ass, solid gold, elvis sunglasses that he got for sending in 2,000 dollars in Malboro money.

I always said I'd give up when the price of 20 fags went above £5. When the price got too much I just started smoking roll ups which are loads cheaper, and then when they put all the horrible warnings over the packets I just started buying more tobacco when I went abroad. Foreign warnings just don't have the same impact...

Sadly, I think it'll take more than some pretty nasty pictures to make me quit.

ewwwwww not nice

ignorance is bliss. So many people live their lives in denial. Its so much easier to get thru life that way, never have to think about anything. I'm 28 and smoked for 13 yrs., haven't had one in almost 2 yrs. Seeing what I see at work made me quit. (paramedic for a city fire department)

Smoking stinks!

A couple years ago they had messages in big bold print on packs of cigarettes that went a little something like "SMOKING WILL KILL YOU!!!" But no amount of Bold Arial Black text can do these pictures justice.

They had a similar campaign running in Australia, with similar type images on packs and commercials. Until some smart viewers pointed out that these had all been doctored (eg. photoshopped). Even the TV commericals had some serious effects done to make out they were real.. to the untrained eye. After they were busted on this they were either taken off or had to state that the images were representations and not actual cases.
I believe it when I see it.... now where are my smokes..

Now if they could only get the sound of a hacking smokers cough to play when you pull out a cigarette.

Umm.. gross! I've grown up on those commercials so I would say get the kids while they're young. Once I saw what drunks, alcohol, and smoking could do I've never picked up the habit.

if you have a tv or don't live under a rock you know what smoking does to you. i tried smoking and didn't like it and never picked it up again. i've herd that your first smoke doesn't hook you but if the first one didn't hook you and you know of the dangers why do it again?

I think we all agree on the fact that this is not going to stop the hard core smokers. But if this can stop non-smoker to start smoking then I'm up for it.

Ugh, that's horrible (and so is that bizarre moustache). Then again, I'm a non-smoker. It might discourage me from starting, but I've no idea whether it'd make me give up if I was already addicted..

Come on these types of images are an outrage and should not be put on billboards. My three year old see this she will have bad dreams. No I have to say this is shocking and shows us the 1% who suffer this kind of trauma because of smoking. I will be writing to government about this it moves beyond limits of proportional advertising.

They've put me off growing my facial hair any longer or wearing cravats, if that helps.

No of course this isn't going to work. It might have some sort of very small impact on would-be smokers but will have no impact whatsoever on current smokers.

I wonder if they made that guy grow his 'tache to enhance the effect........

nope.

That is gross. All of the images are quite shocking. But I'm not convinced that just slapping them on cigarette packs are going to have the desired effect. I'm sure that it will turn a few people away, but not the smoking massive.