Awesome or Awful: Personally Offensive Cigarette Warning Labels

Starting next year, American smokers will see more than just a familiar logo when they buy a pack of cigarettes. Back in June, we looked at some gory new FDA-mandated warning labels, featuring pictures of addicts with holes in their throats and close-ups of oral cancer paired with reminders that “Cigarettes cause cancer” and “Cigarettes are addictive.” But designer Anna Astvatsatryan has a different idea about how to deter smokers. She’s created a series of cigarette-label mock-ups that trade the impersonal gross-out for insults that hit home: A pack of Camels reads, “I have a small dick,” while some Davidoffs admit, “I support al-Qaeda.” For our part, we find the Offensive Habit images somewhat sophomoric, although we can’t deny that they’re more pleasant to look at than pictures of diseased flesh. Let us know whether you think they’re an awesome or awful idea in the comments.

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[...] will soon be wrapped around cigarette packs by the FDA, here’s something amusingly cynical or “sophomoric,” if you will, for disgruntled smokers. Designer Anna Astvatsatryan’s Offensive Habit series [...]

[...] Flavorwire » Awesome or Awful: Personally Offensive Cigarette ... Back in June, we looked at some gory new FDA-mandated warning labels featuring pictures of addicts with holes in their throats and close-ups of oral cancer paired with reminders that “Cigarettes cause cancer” and “Cigarettes are addictive. images somewhat sophomoric, although we can't deny that they're more pleasant to look at than pictures of diseased flesh. Let us know whether you think they're an awesome or awful idea in the comments. [via Core 77] [...]

packet warnings are easily defeated by investment in a good cigarette case. personally i'd find a pack with "will fuck for a cigarette" on awesome, tho.

A. this won't deter smokers (like me!) B. way to assume that smokers are dudes b/c yeah I have erectile dysfunction / a small penis it comes from being female. seriously stupid.

Stop trying to protect me from myself.

Hummm... Seems to me that smokers will smoke... No matter whats written (or pictured) on the box... But these are amusing, non the less.

I think this is on the right track, but it needs to take the "funny haha" out of it, with labels like: I am a disappointment to my children. or I was sexually abused by my father as a child. For someone who is/was, I can't see them smoking those with pride.

Not going to work. I think the only thing to make the invincible smoker quit is to hike up the price to $15 or more.

Quite funny actually, I defenitely don't think it's going to work! Also most seem to be directed at men, which is especially ironic for cigarettes like Camel because they are predominately smoked by women. (At least all the Camel smokers I know are female)

Unfortunately I don't think they will work at all. I've never been a smoker, but my entire family are smokers and they would think this is quite amusing and like the previous commenter, Wes, would smoke them with pride (and probably even show their friends for a laugh).

As a smoker, I'd much rather this than the new labels. These make me laugh, I'd smoke my "I have a small dick" cigarettes with pride.

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  1. [...] Flavorwire » Awesome or Awful: Personally Offensive Cigarette … Back in June, we looked at some gory new FDA-mandated warning labels featuring pictures of addicts with holes in their throats and close-ups of oral cancer paired with reminders that “Cigarettes cause cancer” and “Cigarettes are addictive. images somewhat sophomoric, although we can't deny that they're more pleasant to look at than pictures of diseased flesh. Let us know whether you think they're an awesome or awful idea in the comments. [via Core 77] [...]

  2. [...] will soon be wrapped around cigarette packs by the FDA, here’s something amusingly cynical or “sophomoric,” if you will, for disgruntled smokers. Designer Anna Astvatsatryan’s Offensive Habit series [...]