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Dead bodies, diseased lungs and rotting teeth were among the graphic images for the new revamped tobacco warning labels, unveiled by health officials who hope it will help smokers quit.What do you think of the 'warning'labels? Do you think it will make smokers quit?
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Dead bodies, diseased lungs and rotting teeth were among the graphic images for the new revamped tobacco warning labels, unveiled by health officials who hope it will help smokers quit.What do you think of the 'warning' labels? Do you think it will make smokers quit?The new labels must be on cigarette packages and tobacco advertisements no later than September 2012, as part of a law that put the multibillion-dollar tobacco industry under the control of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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Dead bodies, diseased lungs and rotting teeth were among the graphic images for the new revamped tobacco warning labels, unveiled by health officials who hope it will help smokers quit.What do you think of the 'warning' labels? Do you think it will make smokers quit?The new labels may disturb some, including one with a photograph of a man smoking a cigarette through a hole in his throat, and one showing a mouth with discolored teeth and an ulcerated lip.Other images stress the dangers of second-hand smoke to children and show tobacco's causal link to lung disease, cancer, strokes, heart disease and death.
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Dead bodies, diseased lungs and rotting teeth were among the graphic images forthe new revamped tobacco warning labels, unveiled by health officials who hope it will help smokers quit.What do you think of the 'warning' labels? Do you think it will make smokers quit?The World Health Organization has repeatedly called for graphic images of diseased organs and heavily stained teeth on tobacco packs as a turn-off. But in Europe and elsewhere, young smokers often buy decorative holders to hide the warning labels on their cigarette packs.
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Dead bodies, diseased lungs and rotting teeth were among the graphic images for the new revamped tobacco warning labels, unveiled by health officials who hope it will help smokers quit.What do you think of the 'warning' labels? Do you think it will make smokers quit?The 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act called for cigarette packages to include warning statements in large type covering half of the front and back of each package and graphic images showing the health dangers of smoking.
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Dead bodies, diseased lungs and rotting teeth were among the graphic images for the new revamped tobacco warning labels, unveiled by health officials who hope it will help smokers quit.What do you think of the 'warning' labels? Do you think it will make smokers quit?The 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act called for cigarette packages to include warning statements in large type covering half of the front and back of each package and graphic images showing the health dangers of smoking.
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Dead bodies, diseased lungs and rotting teeth were among the graphic images for the new revamped tobacco warning labels, unveiled by health officials who hope it will help smokers quit.What do you think of the 'warning' labels? Do you think it will make smokers quit?The World Health Organization has repeatedly called for graphic images of diseased organs and heavily stained teeth on tobacco packs as a turn-off. But in Europe and elsewhere, young smokers often buy decorative holders to hide the warning labels on their cigarette packs.
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Dead bodies, diseased lungs and rotting teeth were among the graphic images for the new revamped tobacco warning labels, unveiled by health officials who hope it will help smokers quit.What do you think of the 'warning' labels? Do you think it will make smokers quit?"The current warnings are more than 25 years old, go unnoticed on the side of cigarette packs and fail to effectively communicate the serious health risks of smoking.
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Dead bodies, diseased lungs and rotting teeth were among the graphic images for the new revamped tobacco warning labels, unveiled by health officials who hope it will help smokers quit.What do you think of the 'warning' labels? Do you think it will make smokers quit?Tobacco will kill nearly 6 million people worldwide this year, including 600,000 non-smokers, the WHO said last month, estimating the global annual death toll could reach 8 million by 2030.
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Dead bodies, diseased lungs and rotting teeth were among the graphic images for the new revamped tobacco warning labels, unveiled by health officials who hope it will help smokers quit.What do you think of the 'warning' labels? Do you think it will make smokers quit?Elsewhere, Philip Morris International has sued Uruguay over the South American country's anti-smoking rules, which include large health warnings on cigarette packs and a ban on tobacco products branded "light.
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Dead bodies, diseased lungs and rotting teeth were among the graphic images for the new revamped tobacco warning labels, unveiled by health officials who hope it will help smokers quit.What do you think of the 'warning' labels? Do you think it will make smokers quit?More than 221,000 Americas will be diagnosed with lung cancer in 2011, accounting for about 14 percent of all U.S. cancer cases, according to the American Cancer Society. Nearly 157,000 men and women are expected to die from lung cancer this year in the United States.
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Dead bodies, diseased lungs and rotting teeth were among the graphic images for the new revamped tobacco warning labels, unveiled by health officials who hope it will help smokers quit.What do you think of the 'warning'labels? Do you think it will make smokers quit?
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