The Ministry of Health warns in pictures

In the USA, they chose frightening images for cigarette packs
Copper newsThe US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has determined the final list of frightening images that will become mandatory elements of the design of cigarette packs, according to the website of the office.

As noted, the introduction of such images will be the first change in the style of warnings in more than 25 years and "is a significant progress in informing about the dangers of smoking."

Earlier, the FDA specialists developed 36 variants of graphic warnings for printing on packs of tobacco products. These warnings are photographs and drawings depicting the negative effects of smoking: tumors, tracheostomy, etc.

If you want, you can download this original compilation (pdf, 13 MB).
There are much more fun pictures that you can print out
and hang it in the smoking room to please colleagues :) – VM.

As a result of the analysis of more than 1.7 thousand public comments, scientific literature and the results of a survey of 18 thousand Americans, nine images were selected out of 36. They are approved by the FDA and should appear on all cigarette packs sold no later than October 22, 2012.

According to the US Department of Health, about 443,000 Americans die annually from smoking-related diseases. Smokers are 20.6 percent of U.S. adults (46 million people), including 19.5 percent of American university students.

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