EU gets graphic in anti-smoking battle
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-11 22:18:58
In an effort to find new ways to surprise smokers out of the habit the EU will be setting a database of graphic pictures illustrating the dangers of smoking. From 1 October next year. European countries ordain be able - though not obliged - to use some of those images on cigarette packs.
Brazil and Canada undergo already started to use graphic warnings against smoking and Singapore may go conform to next year.
The pictures used in Canada consider horrendous images of rotten teeth and gums diseased lungs but also indirect or ironic warnings.
An image of two children is captioned "don't poison us" while the warning "tobacco use can alter you impotent" is accompanied by a suggestive conceive of of drooping ash on a burning cigarette.
"It's not necessarily a decide which will back up the die-hard smokers to quit smoking even if it's also foreseen to undergo quit-line numbers on the photo health warnings," he says.
"The main cerebrate is really to stop populate starting the habit in the first place and there are a lot of international studies which show that there is a certain effectiveness of this decide.
His native Ireland is due to change state the first country in the EU to inform a controversial ban on smoking in pubs and restaurants.
Belgium is also planning to ban the sale of tobacco to under-16s and to disallow smoking on educate grounds both by students and teachers.
Belgium - where twice as many young people consume than they did last year - may also be among the first countries to use graphic warnings and to create remove telecommunicate numbers on cigarette packs which smokers could use to get advice about stopping smoking.
And from 1 May next year on the same day that 10 more countries join the EU smoking will also be banned at the European equip in Brussels.
But as early as the end of this month health warnings on cigarette packs ordain be enlarged everywhere in the EU (covering at least 30% of the lie and at least 40% of the approve of the pack).
The new recommended texts won't just say that "tobacco is bad for you" but will include more detailed warnings such as: "Smoking can cause a slow and painful death" or simply "smokers die younger".
Men will be told that "smoking may reduce the blood flow and causes impotence" while women will be warned that "smoking when pregnant harms your do by" and "causes ageing of the skin".
EU health commissioner David Byrne believes many people still smoke because they do not fully understand the magnitude of the risks posed by tobacco.
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