Saturday, September 01, 2007

Cigarette Packs to have Really Gross Warning Pictures

If you saw a picture of a young dead man lying on a metal tray, a baby in an intensive care unit, or a closeup of open heart surgery on a pack of cigarettes, would it stop you from smoking? This is what is scheduled to happen in the United Kingdom by 2009 as 25% of all UK adults are smokers. Some of these anti-smoking images at this link are very disturbing and gross.

If the British government is getting that aggressive in stopping smoking, then it could certainly impact British American Tobacco plc (BTI) and Altria Group Inc. (MO). It might even be a problem for Reynolds American Inc. (RAI), Carolina Group (CG), and Vector Group Ltd. (VGR) if this campaign spreads to the United States.

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