Australia is the only country in the world to require tobacco products to be sold in plain packaging. It was a long, hard road for the Labor Party but they fought the mighty tobacco industry and won and all cigarettes on sale since the 1st of December carry a shocking picture of someone dying from a terrible disease caused by smoking cigarettes.
I saw a picture of Bryan Curtis for the first time on the weekend at a Christmas function. There was one lone smoker among a group of ex smokers and the pack was passed around. It wasn't a pretty sight, poor Bryan looked to be already dead, but the interesting thing was that the group agreed that his image wouldn't stop people from smoking.
There are seven different images, but Bryan's picture is the one smokers don't want to look at. When they buy a packet of cigarettes with his picture on it, some hand it back and ask for another one.
So who is Bryan Curtis? The Department of Health will only say that he is a US citizen who died of lung cancer and was keen to spread the word that smoking kills. The Department entered into a confidential agreement with his family to use his picture. He was a construction worker and smoked 2 packs of Marlboro Reds for 20 years until he died, aged 34.
A Gold Coast company called Boxwrap is now selling stickers to hide those gruesome images. The General Manager said "We're in business to make money but essentially, I think it's important for Australians to have freedom of choice."
Quit Victoria Executive Director Fiona Sharkie said "We are hearing a lot of avoidance behaviours but that doesn't mean they're not working.....the fact that people go to the trouble to not see it is a very positive thing from our perspective."
Bryan Curtis' message lives on, DON'T BE A HOSTAGE TO THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY
ReplyDeleteFunny thing, he died of aids
ReplyDeleteI heard he died from aiDs too...
ReplyDeleteTry a bit of research and you'll find that's not right. sometimes the truth is just to hard to face up to. don't let his message go to waste
DeleteThe official wording is "he died of a lung cancer related illness caused by smoking." He had aids which effected his immune system to the point that the cancer took over at an increased rate. If he didn't have aids he would not of died. If you have aids and die when you get the flu is it the flu that kills you or the aids?
ReplyDeleteAlso these are the same people who give sick people toxic products like chemo that only have a very small chance of success, when many studies done by scientists and doctors around the world show that Cannabis and Marijuana are extremely effective cancer killers when ingested! You need to eat the oil not smoke it! But you can grow it yourself, costs hardly anything to grow, no side effects and very successful in treating most types of cancers! Don't take my word for it, check it out yourself!
ReplyDeleteSo poor Brian was fucked by the government because he could have spent $20 on Jim
ReplyDeleteHumbles MMS to either cure or control his Aids, and grown a plant in his backyard that would have cured his lung cancer... Pretty sad world we live in! I wonder how much they have profited so far from Brains death? The people in control, need to be controlled!
They should be putting these warnings on the food we get sold. Everything is loaded with sugar which is the number one food for cancer!
ReplyDeleteYou are so correct! ^.^
DeleteHe died from aids end of story.
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