answer:Hah. Side note: love your topics I think the point is they’re trying to use the “a picture’s worth a thousand words” literally. The tiny-print cancer warning at the bottom of the pack was a lot easier not to see. I didn’t realize they had implemented those large pictures. Last I heard they were still a forming idea. I don’t think it’s bad memory so much as a powerful addiction can allow you to more easily ignore the less than pleasant that’s far off, because the current drugless unpleasantness is more pressing. I think it’s also that they’re trying to counteract all the advertisement the cigarette companies pour into getting new people to smoke, and getting already-smokers to continue. I probably have a less heated opinion because I already know that even if I wanted to smoke I couldn’t. (I’m pretty much scared of drugs of any type, even many prescription medications… but that’s a different topic altogether). Right now I can relate it to food, though. If I had a picture of somone morbidly obese on the ice cream in the freezer, I’d probably have an easier time saying no. Granted, ice cream doesn’t have nicotine. But I don’t think the pictures do nothing. I think they’re hoping the pictures will help people feel stronger against the addiction. They’re certainly not fun to look at, particularly when you’re being told that that’ll be you. (Because that’s what the pictures are saying.) Whether they’re right in doing this or not, I don’t know. I do know that they make me want to help you stop smoking, even though that’s not really my right to do…