Am I the only one who hates the disgusting photo of a man’s bleeding destroyed jaw and bloody gaping hole in the side of his mouth on the side of 6-Photo Kailash tins above the “Tobacco Kills” warning? 
It pisses me off, because the tin is otherwise so awesome with all the cool 6-Photo logos and pretty images of Indian landscapes, I want to show it off but instead I keep the tin hidden because of their hideous image. Now besides their Medicated snuffs which come in a different sort of tin, I have 2 other 6-Photo snuffs, one is a 25g tin of Super Kailash, the other is a 30g bag of Super Chetak. Both of them say “Tobacco Kills”, but instead of that ugly image there’s a picture of a scorpion, which is actually pretty cool. So I assumed it was only a 45g tin problem, so in my most recent Mr. Snuff order, I forewent the 45g tin, which was actually on sale, and paid full price for 2 25g tins of Kailash. But then, there was the ugly horrible image yet again on the 25g tins. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can maybe cover it up? I was thinking of maybe printing out some 6-Photo logos or even the scorpion image and taping it to cover it up, although having tape on the tin might look tacky. But I want to be able to bring these tins with me and show off how cool they look, and that nasty image really ruins it.
That is indeed nasty! Here in Finland we have huge text warnings ruining he label art, but at least we don’t have these hideous pictures. Why not poison the wrappers if you really want to prevent people buying tobacco… Here’s a page that lists Indian tobacco warnings regulations: http://www.tobaccolabels.ca/countries/india/ WARNING : Don’t scroll down that page if you don’t want to see these graphic images. Also, I’ve been curious about why is the scorpion symbol a cancer warning in India. Picture of a crab (or cancer) I’d understand, but why scorpion?
Put it in a piece of bamboo with a cutout on it. Then you can rotate the can to show which picture you choose. Don’t forget to put a computer chip on it so that you can see that it might be the gruesome ghoul that gets seen the most. Or You can put the snuff in those cool prescription bottles. mmmmmm, Venom!
I have a theory that cancer is caused by psychological factors, including deeply held fears of cancer itself. If I ever get it, I hope to sue the health authorities for reinforcing that fear with these atrocious warning stickers. In Australia these days, every tobacco product must be sold in a generic black box with standardized fonts and pictures like that covering one whole side of the pack. Incidentally, the sale of plain cigarette cases has gone through the roof, so somebody’s benefiting.
Scotch Tape? That’s what I’m gonna use, they’re on some of the “new” indian snuffs too. Nasty pictures jeeze looeeze.
It gets the message across doesn’t it? No need to worry about whether you read English or Sanskrit. Don’t even have to worry about whether the consumers are literate! I remember when the warnings only pictured a scorpion. The new warnings were imposed by the Indian Government. see: http://www.tobaccopub.net/articles/new-tobacco-warnings-in-india-more-frightful Since 6 Photo is an ISO-9000 company (certified as meeting International Quality Standards) they must meet the requirements imposed upon them by government agencies. ISO certification is a prestegious certification that a few companies attempt to obtain. To the best of my knowledge, no other company producing tobacco products has even attempted to obtain ISO Certification.
Scan the “good” part of the label, tape to a Bell jar and decant the contents. End of problem! That’s what I do, anyway.
Warning labels are getting beyond ridiculous, I’m surprised they aren’t putting the most horrid car crash pics they can find on new cars
To be fair oral use of snuff definitely can cause some pretty nasty cancers. Not as likely to as smoking but it can. Nasal use is much safer, for one thing the quantity used is so much smaller, for another nasal cancer is a far rarer cancer. If it makes anyone feel any better I actually found a page that measured the lead, arsenic, and cadmium content of several Indian snuffs including a black Madras and the Sugandh Sagar Rose Indiansnuff has been selling and they were well within safe limits, the same you see in food. Maybe they should put pictures on the snuff-tins encouraging people to sniff it rather than use it as tooth-powder!
The problem is that all oral tobacco is put in the same package when using health warnings. I don´t believe that snuff use is totally free of health risks, but I think that the man of the photo is more likely to be a frequent naswar user (as they put the portion between cheek and jaw) that to use snuff orally (more linked to women).
Since we are on the topic of disgusting warning labels, anyone seen Canadian cigarette packs? lol “MAY CAUSE BLINDNESS” with a picture of a syringe going into an eyeball.
Scan the “good” part of the label, tape to a Bell jar and decant the contents. End of problem! That’s what I do, anyway.
Well that sounds a bit too complicated, I don’t have a bell jar, and I’m not sure how I could go about scanning all the sides of a circular tin. I actually like the 6-Photo tin, I like the cool logos and landscape images and Hindi script, it’s just that one ugly image that ruins it for me. Ultimately what I ended up doing was googling an image of the 6 Photo logo, cropping and resizing it, and printing 3 of them out on glossy paper. Then I taped it over the nasty image with clear Scotch tape on my 45g tin and 2 25g tins. Not an ideal solution, you can see the tape on the jar, you can clearly see parts that it is covering up some other picture behind it, and the image is identical to the 6-Photo logo printed on the can right next to it, but at least I no longer have to look at a bloody gaping hole in the side of a man’s mouth, and I’m not embarrassed to take the tin out. While it is my understanding that in India it is much more common to use snuff orally, it is still rather an ironic and ridiculous photo for those of us who only use it as a nasal snuff! Curiously, the two 6-Photo Medicated snuffs I have (No. 6 and No. 66) both came in tins with just the generic European “This tobacco product can damage your health and is addictive” message, with no nasty bloody pictures or scorpions or anything. My hypothesis would be that 6-Photo only produced those particular products for sale in European markets, though it’s still kind of odd. In fact the warning message is just written in inoffensive tiny white letters written in a circular fashion along the bottom of the round tin, fitting right in with the label color scheme, not even the big ugly separate black-on-white label that can sometimes take up half the can and ruin the labels of a lot of European snuffs.
funny thing just got the 200 grams tin of this snuff and I love it love it. I even love the gross picture, adds a lynchian quality to the snuff tin.
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@basement_shaman While you are free to disagree with me about my opinions here and in the thread about Stammheimer Hopfen Schnupf, it would be nice if you could show a little respect for other people and their opinions. If you disagree with something I say, you can disagree in a respectful, polite, adult way. If you don’t think the topics I start are worthy of discussion, then I don’t see why you would even feel the need to post in them. If you made a thread about a topic I didn’t find interesting or “stimulating”, I simply wouldn’t post in it, I would not feel the need to make some rude and demeaning post about the thread and the member who created it. I had thought we had moved past our initial negative exchange where you insulted and threatened me, and had hoped we could become friends, but for a man in his 50s, you really need to learn some sense of respect and decorum, to act like an adult. In case your mother never taught you: if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all. 
I do not care so much about the picture. I personally have a strong stomach. I think the fact that it says tobacco kills on the can, pisses me of,f hell of a lot more than the picture disgusts me. Then again, across the board I hate warning labels because I feel like they are kind of insulting. I think as an adult I will use the damn product and take my chances. @DivinusSalviarum I am sorry to disagree with you, but I personally do not find the picture grotesque. If you have a problem with the picture I would say just cover it up with a piece of electrical tape.
I do not care so much about the picture. I personally have a strong stomach. I think the fact that it says tobacco kills on the can, pisses me of,f hell of a lot more than the picture disgusts me. Then again, across the board I hate warning labels because I feel like they are kind of insulting. I think as an adult I will use the damn product and take my chances. @DivinusSalviarum I am sorry to disagree with you, but I personally do not find the picture grotesque. If you have a problem with the picture I would say just cover it up with a piece of electrical tape.
Eh I think the picture being grotesque is kind of an indisputable point. It’s supposed to be grotesque and disgusting and repulsive, in order to scare people away from using tobacco products. That’s the point. If you don’t find a graphic image of a gaping bleeding hole in the side of a man’s face where his jaw has been destroyed and torn up by cancer to be grotesque…then that raises some disturbing questions about your mindset. 
It’s one thing to say you don’t personally mind the photo being on there, but to say it is not grotesque and disgusting is kinda creepy and out-there. 8-X
and it is for India a very large country were a large issue of literacy in some parts of the country so the picture does make more sense then in a smaller country where health information is easier to spread. Or at least that’s another way to look at it.
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And i pretty much get a bollocking when i talk about thread spamming… I agree, the label shown is horrendous. i guess its cheaper for them to just produce one tin for every market though… but it really will prevent me from using it in public, or using it around people i know. my girlfriend knows i snuff, and my mum knows i snuff and they are fine with it, im not sure how accepting they will be if i pull out a tin with that on it. it could quite easily ruin the image of every snuff i have.
Well,I agree that the warning picture is a real put off,the good news is that Kailash snuff and all our other snuff is now available with mr.snuff in new vacuum sealed tins,those as used for medicated snuffs without picture warnings.