December 21, 2011   Graphic images on cigarette packs may be enough to stop some smokers according to a new study by a University of South Carolina public health professor. According to the study the more graphic warning pictures are, the more they deter smokers, said Jim Thrasher, assistant professor in the Arnold School of Public Health Department of Health Promotion, Education and Behavior. “Tobacco use continues to be the leading cause of preventable death in the United States, and graphic health warnings are among the most cost-effective interventions that exist,” Thrasher said. The study comes after a U.S. federal judge delayed implementing graphic warning labels on cigarette packages.

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