PETERS – This message will self-destruct

GENERALLY, WE’RE LEARNING MORE and advancing as a society.

The arc of history has moved in the direction of wiser decisions based on new discoveries, despite what some doomsayers and cynics may tell you.

The advent of warning labels printed on individual cigarettes may be the exception that proves the rule.

Canada has become the first country in the world to require cigarette manufacturers to include labels on each individual cigarette relaying the tiniest little message about the danger contained within.

See also: EDITORIAL: New ciggie warning will make smoking stigma even bigger

For the brief moment that the cigarette is at its full length, the smoker will be reminded one more time of their ill regard for their own health.

Then, in a nod to Inspector Gadget, the message will self-destruct.

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James Peters is the radio anchor at CFJC, coming to Kamloops in 2006. He anchors the afternoon news on B-100 and 98.3 CIFM, and contributes weekly editorials to the CFJC Evening News. He tweets regularly @Jamloops.