Have you seen the new graphic warnings that will appear on every pack of cigarettes beginning in 2012?
Here's what they look like.
The Food and Drug Administration hopes these "in your face" larger warnings will have two outcomes: That it will keep more children from ever trying smoking and those teenagers and adults who are smokers will stop.
The new warnings are disturbing.
This is the first change in the warning labels in over 25 years, so why now? Because for some reason, smoking among teenagers and adults is not decreasing.
It is surprising how many young people you see lighting up in bars and nightclubs and driving in their cars. 46 million people in the U.S. smoke. 440,000 of them die every year from smoking related disease.
The sad thing is, those deaths could be prevented.
You know, many smokers you talk to wish they had never started. Perhaps this new campaign will make others think twice before lighting up that first time.
I'm James Smith.
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