Each would come with one of nine proposed warning labels:

• WARNING: Cigarettes are addictive.
• WARNING: Tobacco smoke can harm your children.
• WARNING: Cigarettes cause fatal lung disease.
• WARNING: Cigarettes cause cancer.
• WARNING: Cigarettes cause strokes and heart disease.
• WARNING: Smoking during pregnancy can harm your baby.
• WARNING: Smoking can kill you.
• WARNING: Tobacco smoke causes fatal lung disease in nonsmokers.
• WARNING: Quitting smoking now greatly reduces serious risks to your health.

When would cigarette packs and advertisements get the new, possibly collectible look? The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act requires the FDA to issue final regulations requiring these color graphics by June 22, 2011, specifying that the requirement for the new health warnings must take effect 15 months after issuance of this final rule, according to the FDA website.

Blowback: Rate the FDA’s Cigarette Warning Art

Obviously some of the images are better than others. Which ones are your favorites? Which ones do you hate? And, perhaps most importantly, which — if any — do you think would help cut down on smoking? Let us know in the comments below.

Follow us on Twitter: @lewiswallace and @theunderwire.

See Also:

• What's Inside: For a Refreshing Hint of Tear Gas, Light Up a Cigarette
• The Cigarette of the Future: All the Cancer, None of the Nicotine
• Cigarettes May Cause Infections

Authors: Lewis Wallace

to know more click here