Cigarette Packs to Include Corpses, Diseased Lungs

Graphic Warnings on U.S. Cigarette Packs May Curb Smoking, Advocates Say

By LARA SALAHI, ABC News Medical Unit

Modest one-liners of smoking's dangers included on cigarette packs may soon turn into gory images and messages that will cover nearly half the pack.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration unveiled 36 labels Wednesday, which are aimed at ramping up efforts to warn smokers of smoking's fatal consequences. These labels exercise the agency's new authority over tobacco products, and the most significant change in cigarette warnings since companies were forced to add the mandatory Surgeon General's warning in 1965.

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