Crisis and Management

The latest bid to discourage the use of tobacco in general, and smoking in particular, will appear in the form of graphics.

US health officials on Tuesday unveiled nine graphic warning labels depicting harmful effects of smoking that will appear on cigarette packages and in advertisements from October 2012.

Dead bodies, diseased lungs and a man on a ventilator were among the images for revamped tobacco labels proposed in November.

“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,” said the anti-smoking group Campaign for Tobacco Free-Kids

A 1964 surgeon general’s report that linked smoking to lung cancer and other diseases spurred a broad anti-smoking campaign and health warnings on cigarette packages.

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