The U.S. Food and Drug Administration unveiled nine graphic cigarette warning labels in June 2011 that are required to appear on every pack of cigarettes sold in the United States and in every cigarette advertisement.
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The cigarette warning labels include larger and more graphic depictions of the negative health consequences of smoking.
How graphic?
The startling cigarette warning labels designed by the FDA include images of corpses, rotting teeth, diseased lungs and a child wearing an oxygen mask.
The cigarette warning labels, introduced to the public in November 2010, are designed to meet the guidelines of larger and more visible graphic health warnings as mandated by theFamily Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009
Here are the shocking cigarette warning labels.