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Hilarious cigarette box warnings

  • 18-08-2013 04:55AM
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28


    Smoking inhibits sperm flow and causes impotence - Not me, I smoke 40 a day and am as horny as a ram from Glan....

    Always ready and raring to go - so what genius came up with that scientific gem?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 901 ✭✭✭Vicar in a tutu


    fockewulf wrote: »
    Smoking inhibits sperm flow and causes impotence - Not me, I smoke 40 a day and am as horny as a ram from Glan....

    Always ready and raring to go - so what genius came up with that scientific gem?


    the packs with the little picture of all the sperm are hilarious!


  • Posts: 25,909 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I like the ones that have been translated into English like "Smoking Can Kill".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    I'd like if they put on the packs that smoking can decrease the risks of Parkinsons Disease and stomach ulcers.

    Proven facts by the way, for every bad there's a good if you put the phrase in reverse. :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 137 ✭✭Russian Blue


    The pictures on the boxes doesn't even scare anyone. I saw an apple on a pack, a withered one. Were they they trying to make it look healthy?

    Here's a picture i'd like to see on boxes


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,868 ✭✭✭djflawless


    I think every car should have a pic on the side of a child being hit by a car while the driver is on the phone..and speeding...and drunk...

    Just saying...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,605 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    fockewulf wrote: »
    Smoking inhibits sperm flow and causes impotence - Not me, I smoke 40 a day and am as horny as a ram from Glan....

    Always ready and raring to go - so what genius came up with that scientific gem?

    Nice to see you've disproven their research the pack of liars.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,443 ✭✭✭Bipolar Joe


    1 out of 2 smokers won't get cancer.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 333 ✭✭Hybrid_Theory


    The pictures on the boxes doesn't even scare anyone. I saw an apple on a pack, a withered one. Were they they trying to make it look healthy?

    Here's a picture i'd like to see on boxes

    JESUS CHRIST! :eek: Was just about to go for a smoke, but now........... I think not :pac:


  • Posts: 3,598 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    This thread is sad, trying to justify a habit that literally kills you slowly, and irritates most people around you.
    Just because you don't see the same side effects that the majority of people see it doesn't mean they're not real.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,443 ✭✭✭Bipolar Joe


    This thread is sad, trying to justify a habit that literally kills you slowly, and irritates most people around you.
    Just because you don't see the same side effects that the majority of people see it doesn't mean they're not real.

    I pretty much just don't give a fuck.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 576 ✭✭✭dutopia


    fockewulf wrote: »
    Smoking inhibits sperm flow and causes impotence - Not me, I smoke 40 a day and am as horny as a ram from Glan....

    Always ready and raring to go - so what genius came up with that scientific gem?

    Nice, so your anecdote disproves the scientific research that came to this conclusion?

    I'll stick with the science, thanks.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 576 ✭✭✭dutopia


    I pretty much just don't give a fuck.

    That's probably why you smoke.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,443 ✭✭✭Bipolar Joe


    dutopia wrote: »
    That's probably why you smoke.

    I smoke because it makes me cool.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    This thread is sad, trying to justify a habit that literally kills you slowly, and irritates most people around you.
    Just because you don't see the same side effects that the majority of people see it doesn't mean they're not real.

    It's life we're all going die there's nothing you can do to prevent that. In this day and age smoking is prohibited in public indoor spaces, nobody gets irritated anymore unless they're little fuss arses who go out of their way to get offended.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,386 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    fockewulf wrote: »
    Smoking inhibits sperm flow and causes impotence - Not me, I smoke 40 a day and am as horny as a ram from Glan....
    How old are you? A 25 year old smoker isn't going to see the effects yet, roll on to 50 and as the damage has built up the problems start. 25 year olds don't get lung cancer, or suffer from environmental cardiovascular disease(though the signs start early).
    I'd like if they put on the packs that smoking can decrease the risks of Parkinsons Disease and stomach ulcers.
    and that ulcerative colitis is almost exclusively a disease of non and ex smokers.
    1 out of 2 smokers won't get cancer.
    Actually if you look at the stats cancer isn't the biggest killer from ciggies, it's cardiovascular disease. If your willie stops working at it's best then that's a bad sign that the cardiovascular system is compromised.

    Still, now that tobacco use is dropping which is a very good thing, watch as other environmental (and avoidable) disease takes up the baton. EG blood sugar/insulin conditions(type 2 diabetes/PCOS) which can cause nearly as many horrible effects as smoking. You're more likely to lose a leg because of diabetes than you are from smoking. Smoking doesn't cause blindness, but diabetes can. IMHO a bag of sugar should have graphic warning labels too.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 818 ✭✭✭Mulumpy


    99% of smokers are selfish people anyway so dont see the point of all these so called graphic images


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 137 ✭✭Russian Blue


    JESUS CHRIST! :eek: Was just about to go for a smoke, but now........... I think not :pac:

    Good, its working, thats my plan. They should stick it onto billboards and let everyone see.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    If a girl stuck a lit cigarette up her fanny and took a drag would it work?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,886 ✭✭✭✭Roger_007


    dutopia wrote: »
    Nice, so your anecdote disproves the scientific research that came to this conclusion?

    I'll stick with the science, thanks.
    The trouble is that there is not much science on this aspect of smoking. The only reference I could find is a study from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. John Spangler, M.D. reported to the American Society of Hypertension, "that men with high blood pressure who smoke are 26 times more likely to have erectile dysfunction, better known as impotence". However no details of this 'study' were ever published and it did not report whether the impotence was more due to the hypertension than to the smoking.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,443 ✭✭✭Bipolar Joe


    Mulumpy wrote: »
    99% of smokers are selfish people anyway so dont see the point of all these so called graphic images

    Sure, we have all you non-smokers to be kind and benevolent, each and every one of you.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,302 ✭✭✭0ph0rce0


    If a girl stuck a lit cigarette up her fanny and took a drag would it work?

    I've seen that video ;)

    IT WORKS


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,886 ✭✭✭✭Roger_007


    Mulumpy wrote: »
    99% of smokers are selfish people anyway so dont see the point of all these so called graphic images
    You have a source for this statistic? Or did it come from the same place as that guy from Anglo got his figures.:confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 818 ✭✭✭Mulumpy


    Roger_007 wrote: »
    You have a source for this statistic? Or did it come from the same place as that guy from Anglo got his figures.:confused:

    Must start a survey. I cant remember the last time a smoker asked me if I minded if they could smoke in front of me


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,533 ✭✭✭SV


    ITT: Smokers try to pretend there's nothing wrong with smoking.


    Smoke all you want, you're free to do so, but for gods sake, don't try and pretend it's in any way healthy, because it isn't.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,302 ✭✭✭0ph0rce0


    Mulumpy wrote: »
    Must start a survey. I cant remember the last time a smoker asked me if I minded if they could smoke in front of me

    If its outside, why would they? :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    0ph0rce0 wrote: »
    I've seen that video ;)

    IT WORKS


    A video you say?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,302 ✭✭✭0ph0rce0


    A video you say?

    I'm guessing you'd know what to type in google to see that.

    2 Words

    One rhymes with Angina, The Other Rhymes with Broke


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,407 ✭✭✭Promac


    Smokers are hilarious.

    It won't kill me today, so: yay! Keep smoking!

    It won't kill me as bad as diabetes, so: yay! Keep smoking!

    I didn't want to be old anyway, so: yay! Keep smoking!

    Free birth control, so: yay! Keep smoking!

    I totally enjoy it and it's got absolutely nothing to do with just being addicted to it, so: yay! Keep smoking!

    All the cool kids smoke, so: yay! Keep smoking!

    Also - smokers will DESTROY any arguments about the adverse effects of smoking if it's not totally up to scratch - they will nerd up and go AT that sh1t like Arnie had a kid with Moss from the IT crowd. But they will ignore every single bit of research that actually proves there's a health risk to it as well.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,832 ✭✭✭✭Blatter


    Wibbs wrote: »
    IMHO a bag of sugar should have graphic warning labels too.

    Sugar doesn't cause type 2 diabetes. Just being overweight can cause it, and eating too much food (not just sugar) can lead to becoming overweight. Your genetic makeup also plays a big role.

    It's a myth that eating lots of sugar causes diabetes.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,302 ✭✭✭0ph0rce0


    Promac wrote: »
    Smokers are hilarious.

    It won't kill me today, so: yay! Keep smoking!

    It won't kill me as bad as diabetes, so: yay! Keep smoking!

    I didn't want to be old anyway, so: yay! Keep smoking!

    Free birth control, so: yay! Keep smoking!

    I totally enjoy it and it's got absolutely nothing to do with just being addicted to it, so: yay! Keep smoking!

    All the cool kids smoke, so: yay! Keep smoking!

    Also - smokers will DESTROY any arguments about the adverse effects of smoking if it's not totally up to scratch - they will nerd up and go AT that sh1t like Arnie had a kid with Moss from the IT crowd. But they will ignore every single bit of research that actually proves there's a health risk to it as well.

    Gave up a while ago myself but I really don't think there is one person out there that smokes that thinks it's healthy or will not contribute to destroying your health, Or is cool :rolleyes:

    If they enjoy it, whats the problem! No one's business to be fair, the only people that go on about it all the time are folks like you trying to be smug and cool because you think your super healthy from not smoking.

    Smokers could not give a shít what people think, And Non-Smokers could not give a shít about smokers either TBH.

    Except for the few in existence that MOAN and like to look down on people in life for a hobby or pastime


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