FDA’s New Cigarette Warning Labels Won’t Stop Smokers

The images are so distasteful that television outlets reporting on them issued an advance warning that small children might want to look away. There was a person smoking through a hole in his throat. Another showed a stomach-churning picture of lungs made black by chronic smoking. The most jarring was the cadaver, with stitch marks on his chest to show where the autopsy had been done.

But does the Food and Drug Administration, which mandated that the ads be put on cigarette packs, really think this will make people stop smoking?

It’s

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