| ■ Pictures of Diseased Lungs to Appear on U.K. Cigarette Packs | 2007.08.31 |
| Smokers in Britain who light up next year are in for a graphic look at what the habit can do to the human body. Beginning in the second half of 2008, U.K. cigarette packs will be required to show graphic photos including a diseased lung, an open chest before heart surgery, and a large tumor on a man's neck, the Associated Press reported. The bid to scare Britons into quitting coincides with a rise in the legal age to buy tobacco products from 16 to 18. Britain is the first European Commission nation to require such images on cigarette packs, a government health official said. |