Health News

Cigarette packages to show graphic photos

Published: Sept. 27, 2008 at 1:17 PM

LONDON, Sept. 27 (UPI) -- Health officials say cigarette packages sold in Britain will soon carry photos of throat cancer, rotting teeth and a corpse in a morgue.

The new packages are to be introduced next month to illustrate the health risks of smoking, the federal Department of Health announced Friday.

The graphic photos replace previous written warnings introduced in 2003, although the messages "Smoking kills" will continue to appear on the front of packages, The Independent reported Saturday.

Smoking, the leading cause of death in England, causes the premature death of more than 87,000 Britons each year, the British newspaper reported, noting Forest, a smokers' lobby group, has criticized the new warnings as "unnecessarily intrusive" and "gratuitously offensive."

© 2008 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written consent.

Order reprints

Most Popular Collections

'Star Trek Into Darkness' screening	NBC upfronts	Met Ball 2013
'Great Gatsby' premieres in New York	Spire raised on top of One WTC	2013: Celebrity break ups and divorces

Additional Health News Stories
Top News Senate shoots down Rand Paul's immigration reform amendment WASHINGTON, June 19 (UPI) -- The Senate Wednesday shot down Rand Paul's amendment to the U.S. immigration reform bill that would have tied immigrants' legal status to border security. Man allegedly cuts off his hands after stabbing dad Deceased Swedish patient's body forgotten for days in hospital Rape charges brought against three Navy football players Explosions under London sidewalks investigated	Entertainment News Selena Gomez said to have hooked up with singer Ed Sheeran LOS ANGELES, June 19 (UPI) -- U.S. singer and actress Selena Gomez and British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran are now involved in a trans-Atlantic romance, Us Weekly reports. Lourdes flooding: French floods kill 2, close Catholic pilgrimage site Taj Jackson wedding attended by Kris Jenner, but not Paris Jackson 'Sopranos' star James Gandolfini dies in Italy at 51 [VIDEO] Russell Brand mocks MSNBC anchors on their own show
Odd News Joe Torre's daughter catches falling baby Cristina Torre reportedly saved the life of a baby who fell from an awning in Brooklyn on Wednesday. Two U.S. Navy landing craft up for auction; each seats 200, and a tank Drunken Polish dentist yanks tooth of patient wanting a crown Burglar stumbles into hanging body of suicide Your Daily Horoscope	Business News Iraq: Chevron, Total expand Kurdish drilling ERBIL, Iraq, June 19 (UPI) -- Iraq's Kurds have consolidated their growing energy sector with Chevron Corp. securing a third exploration block in the semiautonomous northern region that increasingly operates as a de facto independent state and France's Total buying a majority stake in another. Designers Dolce and Gabbana given suspended jail terms Markets slide on Fed news 200 Walgreens stores to get solar panels Chicago tops in owner-vacated properties in foreclosure