Cigarette Packs to Get Skulls, Blackened Teeth, Diseased Lungs

Chinese cigarette packs will get:

1. skulls

2. blackened teeth

3. diseased lungs

printed on them in hopes of discouraging more smokers.

The images will be required to take up about 1/3 of the pack's surface area and will come into force from January 2009.

The requirement is part of a plan to ban tobacco advertising altogether by 2011.

China has the world's most enthusiastic smokers – 300 million and growing.

That big black cloud over the country – not factory smoke.

In some parts of the country the average age of a person when they start smoking – 10-years old.

Some people think that the kids will become even more enamored by smoking if it has a skull can crossbones on it.

The best way to stop people from smoking…stop making cigarettes.

What do you think?