On Thursday, a study published by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had claimed that warning notes on cigarette that indicate tobacco dangers play a significant role to stimulate smokers to quit the habit and stressed to cast a graphic human image to portray the related sufferings.
They advocated the pictorial warning as it is considered understandable to everyone, no matters can read or not. In addition, it is expected to evoke an emotional response from the smokers as well as motivating them to quit.
During the course of the study, the researchers have carefully examined a smoker database compiled in Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Mexico, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, Uruguay and Vietnam for a poll called the Global Adult Tobacco Survey, from 2008 to 2010, and observed that warnings made smokers to think about the unhealthy habit.
The CDC is looking forward to perform some more research work on smoker psychology that what makes a smoker to think about quitting the habit.
Additionally, The World Health Organization (WHO) had considered the warnings on tobacco product packing’s as a good effort to curb the global tobacco epidemic. It also marked the tobacco consumption as a leading cause of death that executes more than 5 million people globally, every year.
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