What Do Canadians Have Against Being Important?
December 4, 2007 – 3:25 amFriend of mine returns from Canada with the pack of cigarettes displayed below. Ever seen such an um, provocative, indeed evocative warning on a pack of smokes? It’s genius. I mean we all know Canadians are funny, but the Surgeon General?
American warnings on cigarettes focus on womens’s health… i.e. low birth weight, etc…
Kudos to Canada for a) making me chuckle, and 2) sticking it to the man (men).
Could you picture this on a pack of Marlboro Reds?
21 Responses to “What Do Canadians Have Against Being Important?”
Ar $9.00 per pack you don’t need to smoke them to become impotent!!!
By ASD on Dec 4, 2007
You should see the one with the rotting mouth full of cancer. Its more like shock therapy than humour. This is how we spell humour in Canada. And we spell spell colour like this. Ha Ha Ha.
By Bear on Dec 4, 2007
umm.. the lung and the rotting teeth and the monkey see monkey doo.
By elliotp on Dec 5, 2007
There like collector cards up here, but for smokers!
By Dman on Dec 5, 2007
Ahh yeah, being canadian and a smoker it is quite funny to see what they put on the packs.
My favourites are the impotent one (pictured above) the 2nd hand smoke kills one (has a picture of about 3 children ages 6 - 12 all with frowns on their face and theres smoke in the background) Caption goes: 2ND HAND SMOKE KILLS.
By Vip3rousmango on Dec 6, 2007
Quote;”What Do Canadians Have Against Being Important?” We Canadians have nothing against being “important” but we do hold grudges against impotence and piss poor spelling.
Welcome to the internet… edittirs wanted.
By NC2K on Dec 6, 2007
@NC2K Ummmm… it’s a joke? Us American are so illiterrit? Get it?
By Michelle on Dec 6, 2007
Yes I get, hence the wink.
By NC2K on Dec 6, 2007
By Michelle on Dec 6, 2007
Nice post! I have always liked this warning myself and it never really occurred to me that such a thing would be unacceptable in the United States.
By Elizabeth on Dec 6, 2007
The best one is the picture of the two kids frowning and next to the pic it says “Please Don’t Poison Us”
Thats quality government humor!
By doug on Dec 6, 2007
My favourite is the one with the bisected brain. It’s disgustingly awesome. I was twelve or thirteen when they first started putting these warnings on the packs. Everyone at my middle school was trying to collect the entire ’set’. Even those of us who didn’t smoke (yet).
Yep, way to encourage kids not to smoke.
By Ashleigh on Dec 8, 2007
Yeah, we’re completely desensitized to this shit…
By CT Moore on Dec 9, 2007
Our cousins from across the water should get used to seeing warnings like this on cigarette packaging. The rest of the developed world (and most of the developing world) have been exposed to product warnings on packaging explaining the unbiased effects of smoking on men AND women for so many years that it doesn’t make us laugh any more. I guess your apparent surprise and delight at this image just goes to show how much the ‘money people’ in the US, (the tobacco companies etc), can influence the media, legislation and even the minds of the very people that made those companies wealthy in the first place. Get used to the picture on the front of that packet of cigarettes lady, and many more warnings like them, because the US WILL eventually have to catch up with the rest of the world in protecting it’s citizens, their rights and their health by way of honesty and equality, and not by way of sensitized warnings, selective advertising and outright propaganda.
Dan (UK)
By Dan on Dec 11, 2007
BAM!
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By Wolf on Dec 16, 2007
@Wolf
Cute. It’s important not to get impotent. Thanks for the explanation.
By Michelle on Dec 16, 2007
That’s a tame one.
I doubt this will ever happen in the US though, the lobbyists and libertarians will scream bloody murder.
On a related note, see Thank You for Smoking. Genius Movie about this very subject.
By DAVE ID on Dec 26, 2007
I always did find that pack a little funny, but ineffective. The real stop smoking pack is the one with the rotting teeth on it. I can’t even recall how many times people would make me get another pack for them (worked at a gas station) just so they wouldn’t have to look at the teeth every time they smoked.
By Kurtis on Dec 30, 2007