Cigarettes
Nov 11 2010, Anya Sans

Graphic pictures depicting the possible consequences of tobacco use are soon to adorn boxes of cigarettes sold in the US, officials have said.

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Philippine Customs Commissioner Napoleon Morales, right, shows to reporters a container full of seized counterfeit Marlboro cigarettes worth about 10 million pesos (about US$200,000) at Manila’s north harbor, Philippines on Thursday Nov. 13, 2008. The...