cigarette warning labels uk packs are being stripped of advertising around the world. But not in the US Where do the health warning

PeerJ 5 , e3272 (2017)

nearly half (43.6 percent) of adolescents did not look at the warnings at all

Approximately 70 of the chemicals and ingredients found in a cigarette are considered carcinogenic, meaning they have the potential to cause cancer

In its most recent publication on smoking, the World Health Organization pointed out that, among the eight main causes of death in the world today, six are associated with tobacco exposure, among them we stress inflammatory and infectious diseases of the respiratory tract.1 According to data from the Ministry of Health (2006), 16.2% of the adult Brazilian population smoke cigarettes daily.2 Despite the broad advertisement in the media about the harmful effects of cigarette smoking, very little is known about the association between cigarette exposure and the development of associated disorders such as chronic rhinosinusitis (CR)