Switzerland
Switzerland has four official languages, but only has warning messages in three languages. The fourth language, Romansh, is only spoken by 0.5% of the population, and those persons typically also speak either German or Italian. The three warning messages below are posted on cigarette packets, cartons and advertisements such as outdoor billboard posters:
- (French) Fumer tue. (Smoking kills.)
- (German) Rauchen tötet. (Smoking kills.)
- (Italian) Il Fumo uccide. (Smoking kills.)
Read more about this topic: Tobacco Packaging Warning Messages
Famous quotes containing the word switzerland:
“In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed—they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!”
—Orson Welles (1915–84)
“I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.”
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845)