Exposure to tobacco products is considered the leading cause of avoidable death in the world. Tobacco control initiatives encompass a gamut of ways of helping people to quit smoking and keeping young people from ever becoming addicted. Pictorial health warnings on cigarette packaging constitute one of the most effective means of conveying information about the consequences of smoking. Research on the neurobiology of emotions shows that visual stimuli affect attitudes and behavior: pleasant stimuli prompt a tendency to approach while unpleasant stimuli prompt a tendency to avoid. The positive appeals placed on packaging by the tobacco industry's marketing departments should be neutralized by warnings that indicate the risks of smoking, thereby deconstructing any pleasurable appeal and prompting a tendency to avoid the product.
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Nascimento, B. E. M., Gamba, N., de Oliveira, L., Pereira, M. G., Spitz, R., Gleiser, S., … Volchan, E. (2010). Neurosciences, graphic arts, and public health: New health warnings on cigarette packaging. Historia, Ciencias, Saude - Manguinhos, 17(SUPPL. 1), 243–252. https://doi.org/10.1590/s0104-59702010000500014
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