The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today that the 9 new required? health warnings and associated color graphic images that will soon grace cigarette packaging and tobacco advertisements in the United States have been selected.?? Narrowed down from 36 possible choices, these 9? deliver powerful messages about the hazards of smoking, and they speak to everyone.? If you pick up a pack of cigarettes, the risk you're taking will be right there, staring you in the face.
View the 9 New Cigarette Health Warnings/Images
This is the first time in 25 years that cigarette health warnings have been changed.
The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act requires that the new health warnings? and color images be implemented on the upper half of both front and back of cigarette packages, and in the top 20%? of cigarette ads.
Beginning on September 22, 2012, cigarettes can no longer be manufactured or advertised without the new warnings.? October 22, 2012 will mark the removal of any cigarettes from store shelves that do not have the new packaging.
While images of diseased lungs and rotting teeth? may be tough to look at, they are realistic examples of the stark reality behind cigarette smoking.? Tobacco is a killer, pure and simple, and it steals? human life at the rate of one precious soul every eight seconds worldwide.
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