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They tried this with cigarettes. It did not really work: https://www.rand.org/blog/2014/09/graphic-warning-labels-on-cigarettes-are-scary-but.html https://www.r

• pakitan 9y ago
  The cigarette warning labels are working just fine. The point is to warn people of the dangers and practically every smoker is already aware of those and yet they choose to smoke anyway. That's perfectly fine in my book - as long as one is making an informed decision, they should be able to pick the poison that kills them.
  • GordonS 9y ago
    I don't know about the US, but in the UK at least I reckon it's the taxes that work better than the labels (the price of a pack of cigs has risen dramatically over the past 15 years or so)
    • orf 9y ago
      They also banned small 10 packs, and 7.5g pouches. This seems to really stop people from buying a small pack for a night out, at least it stopped me. That is until you buy a larger pack and have some.left over the next day that is.
• WalterBright 9y ago
  At least they could no longer pretend surprise at the damage cigarettes did to them. I say "pretend" because it was no great revelation in the 1960s that smoking was bad for you. My father said they were called "coffin nails" back in the 1930s, and the first thing doctors routinely advised their patients was to quit smoking. And, of course, the black, scarred lung of a smoker was ridiculously obvious to any person who did an autopsy or operation on a smoker.