they also help greatly to deglamorize smoking

Governments all around the world are waking up to the fact that smoking seriously damages the productivity of their countries and incurs huge health bills for them. They are beginning to realise that by investing in campaigns to stop people smoking they could reap considerable financial rewards in the long term.

The Egyptian government recently announced that it is setting up a new campaign which will promote stark and shocking images showing how dangerous smoking and tobacco can be. The new campaign will make it law that all cigarettes packets have images showing exactly what is likely to happen to you if you continue to smoke. 

For example one of the images shows a man dying in the hospital bed wearing an oxygen mask. The other images show a heart wrenching image of a child coughing and one image which is thought to possibly be the most effective image in stopping men smoking shows a limp cigarette which symbolises erectile dysfunction.

At Ukmedix News from our research we know that not only do these images shock people into worrying about their health but they also help greatly to deglamorize smoking. Putting down a packet of cigarettes on a coffee table is a normal social activity but if the packet of cigarettes contains a disgusting image you risk becoming antisocial and uncool by doing so..

Ukmedix News has noticed that it tends to be very poor countries that use the stark images to stop people smoking and this for two reasons. Firstly many people in poor countries cannot read and therefore images are the any way of conveying the message of the dangers of smoking and secondly poorer people tend to smoke more than better educated and richer people. It is poor nations and poor individuals that suffer the brunt of problems from smoking.

The Ukmedix News Team wishes the Health Minister of Egypt good luck in his campaign to improve the health of his citizens and to prevent slow and painful deaths.