graphic warnings

New Health Warnings in Brazil

Launched for World No Tobacco Day on May 31, they are particularly strong. Here the Brazilian website and here from the Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada (where the copy is easier).

Graphic Warnings introduced in Brazil in 2004

A new set of 10 graphic warnings was introduced in 2004. You can have a look at the images in a bigger format on the site of the Brazilian Health Ministry.
The selected themes are: sexual impotence, leg amputation, lung cancer, cancer of the larynx, cancer of the mouth, premature baby, spontaneous abortion, arsenic and naphtalene (rat and cokroach), child and asthma.

In Brazil, graphic warnings were first introduced in 2002

You can see the first series of 9 graphic warnings of 2002 in the Globalink Gallery and the  Physicians for a Smokefree Canada site.

The themes selected for the warnings were: sexual impotence, lung cancer, cancer of the mouth (and bad breath and teeth), bad role model for children, heart attack, pregnancy, premature birth, addiction and "folego modelo".

The picture occupies 100% of one side of the pack.