Cigarette packs with graphic images, blunt warnings are effective: focus groups
OTTAWA — One image shows a woman’s torso with a cigarette being burned into her bladder through underwear.
Another depicts a man holding a colostomy bag, adding the words, “You may need to use a bag as a toilet for the rest of your life.”
There’s also a naked man holding a sign over his lower body that says, “out of order.”
The federal government is testing graphic new warnings to wrap around cigarette packages, and the stark message is clear: smoking is bad and it can damage more than your lungs.