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warning symbols and images should be put on cigarette products. I feel that they should be put on there to warn people that are new and uneducated about the dangers of smoking. There should be the images for our children's generation if we neglect to inform our children because we assume that it is automatically bad.

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I chose to sit on the side against putting images on the packs of cigarretts because I do not want to feel worse about myself. Smoking cigarrettes is already an addiction for me, I know it is bad, but yet I still can't help but to crave one daily. Seeing the images of what they do to me will make me even more depressed.

I believe that cigarrett boxes should have a warning label on them to make sure that everyone knows that they are harmful to the consumer. The warning label will ensure that all people will be aware of the products negative effects because although there are written warnings people over look them or are unable to read them.

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Warning symbols and labels should not be on cigarette packages because it's the consumers responsibility to educate themselves about their purchases. For example, unhealthy foods do not come with a warning label, but obesity related deaths have caused an estimated 300,000 deaths per year while tobacco related death comes in about 400,000 deaths annually. 

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Putting a label on an american made product takes away the freedom of choice and spirit that sparked this countries fuel for progression. A label makes the tobacco product appear harmful and anti-american to the average citizen. This tobacco product fuels the economy, making it appear harmful decreases it's stock and increases the risk of the economy crashing. Whoever makes that decision to put a label on this product will share a portion of blame for why the once strong American economy plummeted, taking away jobs, increasing the separation between the poor and rich classes.

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I am against putting warning images on cigarets products because this proposal is more so focused towards tobacco industries producing pre-rolled cigarettes, since those companies are the companies who put harmful toxins in their products. There are also tobacco companies who produce just plain tobacco in a bag and empty filters so you may roll them yourselves. The companies who do so do not put all those harmful toxins and very little nicotine, there idea of smoking tobacco is more so as relaxing after a long day such as smoking out of a pipe or a hookah. Putting labels and images on cigarette would only put bad images and reputation on people who do smoke, and everyone who does smoke is not a bad person. Seeing someone who smokes cigarettes gives off the reputation that they may not care about their bodies, which this could also be said with people who eat fast food all the time. If that they eat fast food they must not care about their bodies and are essentially destroying it, that does give them a bad reputation, it just gives them the freedom to do what they want. 

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I don't see why putting a sign or symbol on the pack would really make much of a difference. Like stated before, when people open the pack to light up a cig, I feel like most people know what they are getting themselves into or on the road to a risk of cancer or death. I mean the government could put warning signs of death and injury risks on vehicles, death or health risks on alcohol bottles or cases, but people are still going to buy the booze and drink it anyway, just like they are going to buy their cigarettes and smoke them anyway. I think that people would ignore the warning signs if they were to be put on the cigarette packages.