GRAPHIC WARNINGS ON THE WAY FOR SMOKERS
October 21, 2004 12:00 AM
Graphic health warnings that could soon appear on cigarette packets throughout Britain are to be unveiled by the European Commission tomorrow (22nd October).
The Commission will issue 42 photographs and designs, including pictures of diseased lungs and gangrenous legs, to accompany each of the 14 written warnings that currently appear on cigarette packs. It will be up to National Governments to decide whether to require cigarette manufacturers to print the illustrations on packs. The EU move stems from changes to the 2001 Sale of Tobacco Directive secured by North West MEP Chris Davies, the Leader of the British Liberal Democrat MEPs.
Fiona Hall, Liberal Democrat MEP for the North East said:
"These pictures will help to break the impression amongst teenagers that smoking is cool and sexy.
"Adults should be free to smoke in private, but Government health policy
should aim to make people as well informed as possible about dangers from all drugs, and tobacco is the biggest killer of all.
"I want Health Secretary John Reid to add these pictures to his anti-smoking
armoury and require their use at the first opportunity."
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