Anti-smoking group ASH is confident that graphic images appearing on tobacco products will force smokers to quit.
Under new government regulations all cigarette and tobbaco
packets must display the grisly pictures of smoking's health
effects, including gangrenous toes, rotting teeth and cancerous
lungs.
ASH says similar images used in Canada have been effective in
getting people to quit the habit.
The Cancer Society has also praised the government for introducing
the new warnings and says they would like to go one step further
and have tobacco displays in shops banned.
"Tobacco has an enormous toll on our community and people are certainly beginning to question why we still allow tobacco to be displayed in retail outlets," says Cancer Society tobacco control adviser Belinda Hughes.
