Quotes

"Fascism and communism both promise "social welfare," "social justice," and "fairness" to justify authoritarian means and extensive arbitrary and discretionary governmental powers." - F. A. Hayek"

"Life is a Bungling process and in no way educational." in James M. Cain

Jean Giraudoux who first said, “Only the mediocre are always at their best.”

If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. Sir Winston Churchill

"summum ius summa iniuria" ("More laws, more injustice.") Cicero

As Christopher Hitchens once put it, “The essence of tyranny is not iron law; it is capricious law.”

"Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." Ronald Reagan

"Law is where you buy it." Raymond Chandler

"Why did God make so many damn fools and Democrats?" Clarence Day

"If I feel like feeding squirrels to the nuts, this is the place for it." - Cluny Brown

"Oh, pshaw! When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have." Owen Wister "The Virginian"

Oscar Wilde said about the death scene in Little Nell, you would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.

Thomas More's definition of government as "a conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name and title of a commonwealth.” ~ Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English Speaking Peoples

“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.” ~ Jonathon Swift

Thursday, November 11, 2010

FDA ready to require photos of corpses on cigarette packs


Why not make them into trading cards?!
Does this sound familiar, as strange as fiction, Thank You for Smoking.
Great news: FDA ready to require photos of corpses on cigarette packs « Hot Air

POSTED AT 9:33 PM ON NOVEMBER 10, 2010 BY ALLAHPUNDIT REGULAR VIEW

Don’t blame them. It was your elected representatives, in bipartisan fashion, who passed an anti-smoking statute last year requiring the FDA to impose more “graphic” health warnings on cigarette packaging. Evidently putting “you’ll get cancer” on the side of the carton is no longer deemed a sufficient deterrent to lighting one up, so now we’re actually going to thrust photos of putrefying flesh into smokers’ faces in hopes of steering them away. Coming soon, presumably: Mandating special flavor additives to ciggies so that you actually throw up while smoking.

You can see the images they have in mind, section by section, by clicking here and then following the links under the heading “Proposed Graphic Health Warnings for Cigarette Packages and Advertisements.” Things really start hopping in the “Smoking can kill you” section, but if you think that’s bad, have a look at the sort of sick-making imagery Brazil puts on their cigarette packs. They look like stills from the set of “Dawn of the Dead.”

We all know where this happy trend is headed; watch the ad below from Nanny Bloomberg’s health department in case you missed it last year. Here’s a label cooked up by a creative Twitter pal to help usher in the new golden age of gross-out disincentives. Slap it on the side of a Happy Meal and you’re good to go — assuming Happy Meals are still legal in your city, that is.


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