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IIRC research on the effectiveness of those labels is already kinda thin (would love to be corrected on that).
And if graphical diseases in the packaging like that gangrenous foot is not enough to discourage someone from smoking, I'd bet that adding more and more death threats has veeery marginal gains if any. My intuition says it's much easier and effective to keep raising taxes on it until it's more and more stupidly expensive.
The warnings on the packages did absolutely nothing to stop me and my friend from starting when we were teens. The negative effects of smoking are perceived to be so minute to a teen that it isn't going to have an effect on the majority of them.
I dunno about y'all but my friends and I were not thinking any or health when we were 17 and the threat of maybe getting cancer in 40 years was not a deterrent since that's like 40 years from now.
Taxing them to the point that no one can afford to buy them is the best solution. No teen can afford to support a smoking habit if they were 30+ a pack. Hell I'd quit if they got up that high, I'm already trying to ween myself off because of the high price.
They had labels like that when I was still in school, the kids were cutting them out of packets and using them like trading cards.
Gotta cache 'em all π₯€