FDA Launches 9 Pictures About Smoking Dangers
IN an effort to encourage more Americans to quit smoking, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released nine graphic warning labels. This label will appear on all packs of cigarettes later than September 2012.
A picture showed the face of a man and a lit cigarette in his hand, with smoke coming from a hole in his neck, as a result of the action tracheotomy. The figure titled “Cigarettes are addictive“. Another picture shows a mother holding a baby with the smoke swirling around them, with the warning “Smoking can harm your children.”
The third image depicts a woman confused by the title “Warning: Smoking causes fatal lung disease in non-smokers.” The fourth image shows stained teeth and open sores on his lower lip in smokers, with the headline “Cigarettes cause cancer”.
Besides images, labels on cigarette packages should also include telephone 1-800-QUIT-NOW that smokers know where to seek help if you want to quit smoking.
By law, labels must appear on each pack of cigarettes sold in the United States, on all cartons, and in all cigarette advertising. The FDA states, this campaign marks the first major changes to the packaging of cigarettes during the past 25 years.
“President Obama is committed to protecting children and the American people from the dangers of tobacco use. The label is straightforward, honest, and powerful describe the health risks of smoking. It will help,” said Kathleen Sebelius, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary, in a news release .
“This label will encourage smokers to quit and prevent kids from smoking. President Obama wants to tobacco is associated with death and disease as part of the nation’s past, not our future,” he continued, as quoted by HealthDay Wednesday (22/06/2011) .
President of the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids, Matthew L Myers said that in order to keep the campaigns remain effective, the images should be replaced regularly because when people are familiar with images of the warning, then the impact will be weakened.
“For the first time we have a label that not only tell people that smoking is dangerous, but give them the information needed,” he said.
The new label is part of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act signed by President Obama and became law in 2009. Obama himself has been struggling for years to quit smoking.
FDA hopes, new alerts will have a public health impact that can reduce the number of smokers so that saved lives as well as life expectancy and improved health status.
Other countries have successfully
Over the past few decades, countries such as Canada, Australia, Chile, Brazil, Iran, and Singapore have adopted the graphic warning labels on tobacco products circulating in the country. Brazil, for example, put up pictures of dead babies and foot gangrene with fingers blackened which the results are quite successful at reducing smoking rates.
In other countries, graphic warnings also help lower smoking rates. In Canada, for example, approximately 13 percent of the population smoked daily declined 5 percent since the graphic warning was adopted in 2000.
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