Graphic images aimed at cutting US tobacco use
The images are part of a new push announced by the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Health and Human Services yesterday to reduce tobacco use, which is responsible for about 443,000 deaths per year.
The United States was the first country to require that tobacco products carry health warnings, and all cigarette packages now sold in the United States have modest and widely ignored messages, like “Surgeon General’s Warning: Smoking Causes Lung Cancer, Heart Disease, Emphysema, and May Complicate Pregnancy.”
