Permit me to stray from my area of expertise, infectious diseases, and move on to smoking cessation.
The US Government has released new images that will cover the upper half of the front and back of cigarette packages produced after September 2012, as well as 20 percent of the space in cigarette advertisements.
The images are graphic and to the point. There is an informative article
here.
Tobacco manufacturers, predictably, are not pleased. When you produce and sell a product that remains the leading cause of preventable death, killing 443,000 Americans a year according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, you should not expect much sympathy.
