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posted by martyb on Wednesday November 09 2016, @03:03AM   Printer-friendly
from the truth-in-labeling dept.

Using prominent, graphic pictures on cigarette packs warning against smoking could avert more than 652,000 deaths, up to 92,000 low birth weight infants, up to 145,000 preterm births, and about 1,000 cases of sudden infant deaths in the U.S. over the next 50 years, say researchers from Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Their study, published online Nov. 3 in the journal Tobacco Control, is the first to estimate the effects of pictorial warnings on cigarette packs on the health of both adults and infants in the U.S

Although more than 70 nations have adopted or are considering adopting the World Health Organization's Framework Convention for Tobacco Control to use such front and back of-the-pack pictorial warnings -- an example is a Brazilian photo of a father with a tracheotomy -- they have not been implemented in the US. Pictorial warnings have been required by law, but an industry lawsuit stalled implementation of this requirement. Currently, a text-only warning appears on the side of cigarette packs in the U.S.

But would such pictures deter fans of The Walking Dead ?


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @04:53PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @04:53PM (#424732)

    >there'll be a black market in cigarettes

    Here, let me help you...
        Tobacco, as many products, originally began being used in its natural form. But after being monopolized by big-business the product is "ruined". Fact -> the tobacco inside each cigarette is now merely a sponge for delivering all the chemicals soaked into cigs that are the origin of many of the product's problems.

    As an easier comparison think farm to table examples of food vs shelf-life processed food & fast food.

    So yeah, not talking about it being prohibited as anyone could grow their own. And that is EXACTLY a better version of tobacco for people, (though at the detriment of tobacco shareholders and why 'homemade' versions of anything are marketed as poor substitutes compared to the commercial version).

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @06:23PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 09 2016, @06:23PM (#424782)

    the tobacco inside each cigarette is now merely a sponge for delivering all the chemicals soaked into cigs that are the origin of many of the product's problems

    So smoke American Spirits [wikipedia.org].

    Natural American Spirit products are "100% Additive-Free Tobacco", though they include the standard generic Surgeon General tobacco warning on the packs in accordance with federal regulation standards, which currently states "no additives in our tobacco does NOT mean a safer cigarette". This was part of an FTC ruling in 2000 and agreement resulting from allegations that the advertisement of additive-free cigarettes made consumers feel that the product might be less addictive or safer than regular cigarettes.

    Oh.