The Fear Factor

It seems that we are now going to see an intensified drive by government to get smokers to abandon the dreaded weed. We are now going to have cigarette packets adorned with pictures of rotting corpses and other things designed to scare smokers witless. Whether such methods will be effective is open to question. You would have thought that anyone able to be deterred by such propaganda would have quit already but doubtless aome highly paid psychologists and media types have advised the powers that be differently.

Perhaps though, its now time to take a different approach to these matters. Instead of trying to frighten people off the bad things in life by heavy handed scare tactics its time to accentuate the positive. Maybe we could start putting positive images on things that are said to be good for us. Oranges, not the only fruit as we know, could be adorned with pictures of smiling children with glowing complexions and packets of raisens could show bronzed men with rippling muscles engaged in bricklaying, or some similar muscular activity. What might be put on cucumbers is probably best left to the imagination.