"It acts as a very public billboard because you all of the sudden are reading something about lung cancer from that pack behind the cash register, whereas before you were just reading 'Marlboro,'" said David Hammond, a health behavior researcher at the University of Waterloo in Canada, who is working with the firm designing the labels for the FDA
To bring a personal example into the argument, my grandfather, a lover of whitetail hunting whose trophy wall is nothing short of impressive, claims he has never shot a buck without a "cancer stick" in his mouth, as he so eloquently puts it
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Smokers are an oppressed minority, first segregated into Smoking Sections, than expelled from indoors all together, now even barred from smoking Smokers are all the more tight-knit now, in this age of intolerance and persecution toward smokers