NYC Gross Matchbooks
The New York City Health Department released a set of matchbooks on September 22, 2008, emblazoned with pictures illustrating the harmful effects of smoking tobacco in graphic detail. Each matchbook also carries the slogan "Cigarettes Are Eating You Alive."1
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- Images include rotting gums, ravaged lungs, and large tumors1
- Matchbooks are distributed free at 132 New York City cigarette retailers1
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"We are putting these images where New Yorkers buy cigarettes, just before they light up, in the hope they'll think twice about the decision to continue smoking."--Thomas R. Frieden, Commissioner of New York City's Department of Health and Human Hygiene2
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