The government is coming out with a new labeling requirements for cigarettes.  And while the labels depict smoking realities, I doubt that it will do much to encourage quitting.  No one would ever smoke knowing that it will kill them.  Rather, they smoke because they believe that it won’t happen to them.

When I was in high school, we had anti-smoking campaigns where students would enter anti-smoking posters in a poster contest.  And the ones who won the prizes for the best posters were the one who smoked.  And, while their posters were very graphic and to the point, it didn’t seem to deter them from smoking.