The scary packet which does not scares anyone..

“It should happen like this…” is a very common sentence which every Indian says after analysing certain things even though they do not have knowledge of that domain. So instead of using the above sentence I thought why not to blog it??

The topic which I am going to play with the above sentence is regarding the new picture which I had seen recently in all the cigaratte packets relating to it with the maggi advertisement( Maggi – name of company famous for selling noodles). We all know that, initially in cigarattes packets it was written “Cigaratte smoking is INJURIOUS TO HEALTH” and that too at the bottom of the packet whose font size was very small. But know things have changed.

When I had a look at the new cigratte packet (even tough I am not a smoker) of Classic Milds (Cigaratte company) I was amazed with the picture which was put to scare people. Initially I thought that it might be winner of a person of some lucky draw which the company might have conducted as a part of advertisement but after examing it for a moment I came to know is a X-RAY picture showing us the hazard of smoking. Seriouly speaking that picture did not scared me much nor it can scare a fresher guy who is making up his mind to start smoking.

Indian Government is taking precautionary measures to educate the masses to quit smoking but the campaign is somehow not made fruitful as government gets most of its revenues from cigarattes, alcoholic drinks, etc.

Canada was the first country to introduce picture warnings in 2001.Research a year later found 31 per cent of ex-smokers said the images had motivated them to quit the habit while 27% said they had helped them to remain non-smokers.

I think it’s the society which we are living should be made healthy so that it has a healthy future. And this can be achieved only by spreading awareness among the masses. So friends, who smoke, try quiting it. I know its somehow difficult but still it all depends on your will power. Try spreading awareness instead of looking at the funny picture of a person with a suit on the scary packet.