Cigarette packages just got more fun in Britain!

I refuse to listen to any cartoon camel, so I’ve grown up thinking that smoking is not only bad, but that smokers are indeed jokers. But if you’re a smoker in the UK, you might end up seeing some horrific images on your packaging soon. The US can’t be that far off either.

Smokers buying cigarettes will from Wednesday be confronted with a series of gruesome images printed on the packets showing how tobacco damages health.

The pictures, which show cancerous lungs and throats as well as rotting teeth, replace written warnings such as “Smoking clogs the arteries and causes heart attacks and strokes” or “Smoking can cause a slow and painful death” which currently greet going to light up.

The picture warnings will start appearing on cigarette packs from October 1 and will be compulsory from October next year. They will be printed on all tobacco products from October 2010.

Why stop with cigarettes? Let’s go all the way and have the dangers of everything on the labels for everything. A vomiting man getting into a car accident with an ugly lady in the passenger seat on the side of alcohol, an enormously obese man on the side of a Big Mac box (with Scratch ‘n’ Sniff body odor!), a man standing there with a coathanger looking menacingly at his girlfriend on a box of condoms…there’s so much risk out there. The world needs to know!

The horrific pictures are after the jump. Be careful clicking. Seriously.

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