July 1st, 2011

About a year later, in autumn 2012, each pack of cigarettes, which is realized in the United States, will be half occupied by various images of the terrible consequences smoking .

That decision was taken by the Office for the quality control of medicines and products of the United States ( FDA ), Which had decided to compulsorily "decorate" cigarette packs and large colorful visual picture of the dangers of smoking . These images should be placed in the most prominent places - on the front and back surfaces of the packs.

Not so long ago the American public in open polls chose from 36 variants of graphic images of the dangers of smoking the most terrible and hard. They include: a photo with a picture of a cancer of the lower lip, the smoke coming out of a hole in the trachea of ​​a person with cancer light , Baby, born under the influence of tobacco on a pregnant woman, finally, just a sinister picture of the deceased. The most tragic image was the kind of woman suffering with an inscription about the dire consequences to some results passive smoking .

According to the FDA, the people "consume" a pack of cigarettes a day for a year will be able to witness an ominous warnings more than 7,000 times. From the statistical surveys of other countries where such a system is to reduce the number of smokers has been working for several years, it found that about 25% of respondents at least once thought about that give up smoking .

New tobacco policy   - Personal contribution of US President Obama, who in 2009 gave the federal government authority to regulate the quality of tobacco advertising, design definition, packs of cigarettes, restrictions on the content Nicotine As well as the ban on distribution of some brands.