Images on Cigarette Packs Are Scarier to Smokers Than Text Warnings A new study shows that nothing scares a smoker away from taking another puff more than a picture of how a body will look like after a lifetime of doing so More than 40 countries around the world force cigarette companies to print graphic images of things like decaying teeth, open-heart surgeries and cancer patients on their packs, in an effort to discourage smoking by directly linking cigarettes with their most gruesome effects
Unlike packs for one-use disposables, kit packs hold a reusable device and its parts as a unit
Here are just some examples: Nearly half of all chronic smokers die from a smoking-related condition Smoking is the single biggest cause of cancer in the world Smokers under 40 are 5 times more likely to have a heart attack than non-smokers Lung, tongue, throat, tonsil, oesophagus, bladder, kidney and stomach cancers are all more common in smokers For more information, see what are the effects of smoking
With the menthol ban in place, tobacco manufacturers have finally tried to promote their other mentholated tobacco and nicotine products, which are exempt from the ban: cigarillos, e-cigarettes, and heated tobacco