Hopefully, when people will see the new cigarette packs, they will reconsider smoking

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Hopefully, when people will see the new cigarette packs, they will reconsider smoking

The Food and Drug Administration released the new and improved cigarette warning labels which are supposed to make people really stop smoking.
By October 2012, all companies should add these new images on their packs, according to what government officials said on Tuesday. These graphic images depict a man exhaling smoke through a hole in his neck or diseased lungs, among other things and hopefully, they will make people react. These are the biggest changes through which cigarette warning labels have gone through in the past 25 years and the companies which are leading the war against tobacco consumption think that these changes will prevent people from smoking from now on. The adult smoking rate of 20.6% in 2009 has remained largely unchanged since 2004, and about 20% of high school students also smoke. Smoking causes more than 400,000 deaths a year, only in the United States of America and these new images are hopefully going to decrease these numbers. The new color labels must occupy the top half of the front and back of a cigarette pack, and 20% of an ad’s space.

This is one of the nine images that will appear on the cigarette packs until October 2012

Given that smoking kills millions a year worldwide, these new images will probably scare even the most prolific smokers in the United States. Although in other countries (in Europe, for instance), there sorts of labels have been put on the cigarette packs for a long time the FDA only now approved them, given their recent history with tobacco companies, which sued the FDA saying that these sorts of images violate their right of free speech. Government officials project the United States of America will have about 200,000 fewer smokers in the first year after the new labels are introduced, said Lawrence Deyton, director of the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products. However, this is only a small part of the whole of 46 million smokers in America.

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