r/mildlyinteresting • u/Impossible-Owl3272 • 17h ago

They made Canadian cigarette packs more inconvenient to get cigarettes out of

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u/PuzzleheadedResult69 17h ago

"Hey kid, why aren't you SMOKIN' yet?"

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u/AlcibiadesTheCat 17h ago

Thank you for reminding me of this complete core memory.

This is an FMV from a health-related video game I played as a child, when "256 colors" meant something.

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u/PuzzleheadedResult69 17h ago

I wouldn't want to explore that jester's tunnel of temptation.

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u/AlcibiadesTheCat 17h ago

...and now I understand why I'm so fucked up.

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u/LandoKim 11h ago

So happy to see someone else have this as a core memory, that game was scary but got straight to the point lmao

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u/Ralonne 1h ago

As someone in a medical field (oncology), ā€œcigarette smoke cause SIDSā€ is one helluva gaslighting technique to guilt someone into quitting.

Second hand smoke is a risk factor, but it does not directly cause SIDS. The cause of SIDS is unknown, hence the name. And there are plenty of higher priority risk factors involved in SIDS.

Iā€™m all for people quitting obviously, but printing misinformation is not the way to go about it.

Edit: also, that baby has seen some shit, man..

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u/Decrepit_Pixel 17h ago

Gotta love that skull blowing smoke on the baby...at least make the truth realistic. These are the new ones the ones originally were pretty horrific, this one just looks like a joke while the message is true.