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After European countries started talking about ways to make warning labels more effective in the 1970s and 1980s, in 1985 Iceland was the first to implement picture warning labels, according to a UC San Francisco press release.The tobacco industry worked hard to overturn those requirements, he writes, but the idea took off

(Not literally though)

One official told me: Our view is that smoking in like being in health hell and the extra impact of additives is like turning the temperature up just another degree

And national campaigns like The Truth Initiative have national PSA advertising not only to stop teens from becoming smokers, but to spread information and resources about quitting to adults who already do smoke

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