By Kelly Malone

Smokers say new anti-smoking messages aren’t deterrent

Jun 20, 2012 | 7:52 AM

A new in-your-face anti-smoking message will soon be on tobacco products throughout Canada.

As of Tuesday, the large, dramatic, and often disgusting, images will be on all cigarette and little cigar packages. The pictures range from cancer-infected mouths to bloody toilets.

Young people in Saskatoon seem to think that it will not make a difference.

“They love smoking they think it is cool. You have to want to quit yourself,” said ex-smoker, Richaine Mandac, 18.

Mandac is not alone in her skepticism.

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Twenty-year-old Christina Perreault said that the images have not affected her smoking habits at all.

“I don't look at them … If I do look at them I don't pay attention,” she said.

Chris Hoffman, 27, and Grant Wilkiee, 19, are non-smokers, but have seen more friends joke about the graphic images rather than put their packs down.

“It might gross them out, but it's like telling a drinker not to drink,” Hoffman said.

“We just end up laughing about them. It's like 'this is gross, I wish we got the other (picture),” Wilkiee said.

The campaign is also using images of the final moments of Barb Tarbox's life – the anti-smoking activist who died of lung cancer at 42.

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