FDA publishes shock cigarette warnings
The US Food and Drug Administration has published a series of graphic images which will become mandatory for all cigarette packets and advertisements from next summer.
In the biggest proposed change to tobacco marketing rules in 25 years the FDA will select nine required warnings, each of which will include a pictorial nasty and an associated written warning to hammer home the anti smoking message.
Leaving nothing to the imagination the pics depict corpses, diseased lungs, cancer victims and a man with a hole in his throat in a bid to illustrate some of the perils associated with the habit.