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librechik

(30,674 posts)
Sat May 21, 2016, 11:06 AM May 2016

Instead of diseased lung pics on cigarette packs, how about Trump?

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/instead_of_diseased_lungs_what_about_putting_obnoxious_assholes_on_cigarett


Starting today, EU regulations require that cigarette packages carry large-format “Shockbilder” (German for “shock-pictures”) on them. You may have seen these before, especially in foreign countries—usually they are super-disgusting medical pictures of diseased lung tissue and things like that.

Such “Gruselbilder” (“gross pictures”) are definitely enough to give one pause, but all in all, they probably don’t affect cigarette consumption all that much. The left-leaning German newspaper taz.die Tageszeitung, however, ran a cover page today with an intriguing take on the issue—taz thinks that putting annoying public figures like Heidi Klum or right-wing politicians like Donald Trump, France’s Marine Le Pen, and Germany’s Markus Söder on cigarette packages might be fiendishly effective. Other pictures taz proposed were Korean leader Kim Jong-un and a thick, green smoothie. Here, look:




I've seen the "diseased lungs" smokes packaging--these two are more nauseating.

Trump and more at the link
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