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Word on the Street 11/10/11

A judge this week ruled the U.S. government can not require tobacco companies print pictures of diseased people or organs on packs of cigarettes. Should those images be on those packs?

“Well, I don’t know. I think that might be a good idea. I think they need to be shown the truth.”

“If people want to smoke it’s their business. If they want to kill themselves, let them kill themselves. I don’t know what good a picture’s gonna do.”

“I think it’s a good graphic representation of the effects of smoking. I think people more easily can ignore the text than they would be able to ignore a picture.”

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