Cigarette Packs Carry Bigger Warning Labels

Warning labels on cigarette packs have not significantly dented the French passion for smoking. But now, new regulations requiring much larger labels are confronting smokers with a simple message: “Smoking Kills.”

The hard-to-ignore labels -- warning of heart attacks, lung cancer, impotence, aging skin and harm to children -- began appearing this week and are the result of regulations adopted in the European Union that require tobacco companies to cover more than a third of cigarette packs sold in the 15-nation bloc with bold health warnings.