GENEVA (Reuters) - Cigarette packages should show graphic images of yellow teeth, blackened gums, protruding neck tumors and bleeding brains to alert smokers to their disease risks, the World Health Organization said on Friday. More than 20 countries, including Britain, Iran, Peru and Malaysia, already use visual warnings on their tobacco products, the head of the WHO's Tobacco Free Initiative ...

The World Health Organisation and anti-smoking activists on Monday unveiled a "death clock" tracking how many people will die from tobacco use to mark a new campaign against the illicit tobacco trade. The "death clock," which shows the number of tobacco-related deaths since the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) negotiations began in October 1999, stood at just under ...

The World Health Organisation on Friday angrily denounced "bogus, untested, and false" claims that it endorses so-called electronic cigarettes as a means to stop smoking. In fact the WHO warned that the product, which claims to be a nicotine replacement therapy, could prove highly poisonous because it has not been subjected to rigorous scientific tests. "It's 100 percent false ...