Such Beautiful Pictures!

So there I am in the local 7/11 waiting for the girl to toast my ham and cheese sandwich. A Thai man comes in and asks the other clerk to get him some cigarettes which are located behind the counter. The boy opens up a metal shelf cover revealing 5 or 6 rows of smokes. Each package has large and very graphic photos on the front of the box. They show photographs of bad teeth, throat cancer, lung cancer even a picture of a  limp cigarette between two long fingers (symbolizing erectile disfunction). All theses pics are big and in very graphic ugly colour. They have something similar on cigarrette packages in Canada but with smaller photos. The Thai guy was of course oblivious to all the negative photo imagery. Such is the power of addiction. Imagine paying thousand and thousands of dollars to poison yourself that way. Then to suffer for years receiving chemotherapy etc. It makes no sense.