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By HeadBerry

The U.S. Department of Health, Human Services, has teamed up to issue new warning labels on all cigarette boxes by 2012. These warnings will also include picture. The bottom half of the box will advertise the brand. However the top half and 20 percent of the back of the box will depict either a man smoking through his tracheotomy hole from his throat, a mother blowing smoke into her baby’s face, a man who is suffering  from a heart attack, or a dead man with a large scar on his chest. To top it off a Warning saying “CIGARETTES WILL CAUSE CANCER” will be slapped next to the new graphic pictures. These are only a few of the many warning labels. 

The new cancer Advertisements has raised questions. Will the warning labels really reduce smoking? Some say the new warning signs are trying to control people’s lives. Will the labels backfire?  This will be a new law for American companies however this has been in Canada’s law for the last few year.  The new labels on the boxes have done wonders for Canada by reducing their smoking by populations 20 percent. Nevertheless, will this work of America?

 

The federal government expectations are not to wipe out smoking in America and a lot of people are going to smoke regardless. Although, in the long term the new warning labels will reduce smoking just by letting people know the effects of smoking. Letting people know the effects of smoking should reduce smoking especially in impoverished cities and in children. By panting a bad image on cigarettes will change the view of cigarettes in the mind of our child today.

In the case of the labels controlling people’s live is blaspheme. The labels are just informing people the effects of smoking. For a question for the reader is it better to keep the causes of smoking a secret and let people kill them self without letting them know the full effect of smoking?

Patrick Basham, adjunct scholar says the graphic warnings on cigarette packages may actually increase smoking. Basham says "It's an explicit act of rebellion." he also says "And increasingly we're suggesting -- unintentionally -- to young people that if they take up smoking, it's an avenue, an instrument by which they can express their rebellion against authority.”To comment on Mr. Basham there will always be a rebellious group conversely the group that the warning labels will turn away will outweigh the rebellious group. 

In the end the new labels will save the government millions of dollars year.  450,000 people die in America ever year from  smoking and second hand smoke. smoking also causes health care 100 billion dollars a year to treat smoking patient.
For you ill informed smokers out there here is a good link to inform you.