Originally Posted by Priestess Angel

Hello fellow posters! All right, we all know that on cigarette boxes that it says that it can cause cancer and many other harmful diseases. My question is do you think that these labels have any effect? Does it really help the situation or do most smokers just ignore it?

Honestly, I don’t think it is effective on smokers very much. I think most smokers think that it won’t happen to them and it couldn’t happen in a million years. I think it is effective a little with the younger generation but not much on the smokers themselves. Let’s face it, usually warnings are never enough. Most people learn things the hard way so I am not so sure if labels really are that effective. I think when it comes to things like that I think it really comes to family influence and how much the person cares about taking care of themselves.