The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the U. S. put forward a proposal in the earlier part of this month to have graphic gruesome images on the labels of cigarette packs with an aim to discourage smokers from continuing with their addiction.

The question which arose was whether these pictures would be helpful in making smokers want to quit their habit.

The results of a new study have found that these images actually work and when smokers were shown grim pictures of a mouth with a cancer growth which displayed blackened, swollen and horrific image most of them wanted to quit their habit as compared to those smokers who were shown lesser severe pictures.

To conduct the research the scientists included at least 500 smoker from the US and Canada who were made to look at a cigarette pack without any picture, then a pack with an image of mouth with white straight teeth followed by an image of a not very badly damaged mouth and then the image of a mouth with the ghastly picture of mouth cancer.

They found that the more elaborate and grim the pictures got the more the smokers expressed a desire to quit smoking.