As of October, the UK Department of Health is updating the health warnings and information taglines it includes on packets of cigarettes and other tobacco products because, despite a nationwide ban on smoking in the workplace (buildings and vehicles), smoking remains an incredibly popular pastime. As of October 1, 2008, they are also going to force tobacco manufacturers to include graphic images of cadavers and diseased body parts to be printed on packaging.

Anyway, in case you couldn’t think of a reason not to stop smoking, here are the fifteen top warnings:

1. Smokers die younger
2. Smoking clogs the arteries and causes heart attacks and strokes
3. Smoking causes fatal lung cancer
4. Smoking is highly addictive, don’t start
5. Stopping smoking reduces the risk of fatal heart and lung diseases
6. Smoking can cause a slow and painful death
7. Smoking causes aging of the skin
8. Smoking can damage sperm and decreases fertility
9. Smoking may reduce the blood flow and cause impotence
10. Smoking contains benzene, nitrosamines, formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide
11. Smoking when pregnant harms your baby
12. Protect children, don’t make them breathe your smoke
13. Smoking costs a packet

Actually #13 is one I added to the list of warnings. #14 would have to be smoking causes global warming, but that is perhaps laboring the point a little too much. More information here.