Its surprising that something as simple as a pictorial warning can make some people quit. In the 2014-2015 study, the researchers recruited 2,149 adult smokers in North Carolina and California and randomly assigned them to receive on their cigarette packs for four weeks either a text-only warning (one of the current warnings on the side of cigarette packs in the United States) or a pictorial warning (one of the proposed warnings with pictures on the top half of the front and back of cigarette packs)
Starting today, cigarettes will carry the following six bilingual health warnings: Poison in Every Puff, Cigarettes Damage Your Organs, Cigarettes Cause Cancer, Tobacco Smoke Harms Children, Cigarettes Cause Impotence, and Cigarettes Cause Leukemia. This is in line with the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, Article 11 (Packaging and Labelling of Tobacco Products), the most up-to-date guidance on health warnings, and builds on existing legislation
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Acceleration can be achieved by making a range of different product types simultaneously available, rather than limiting people to one or two categories, as even some of the most successful countries have done
