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Cigarette makers forced to put smoking disease images on packets - www.smh.com.au: "Fourteen pictures, including photographs of lung disease, tongue cancers and a dissected brain, would be prominent on the front and backs of [Australian] packets....The parliamentary secretary for health, Trish Worth, said the size of the packet warnings had yet to be decided, with the option of half the front and back or 30 per cent of the front and 90 per cent of the back.

Ms Worth said after similar health warnings were introduced in Canada, the number of smokers fell by 3 per cent. 'We would hope for that, or even better,' she said."

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