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:

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