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Cigarette manufactures in Uganda, will alter the mild health warning on packs, to clearly tell smokers of the danger of contracting incurable diseases through consuming tobacco products.

The Uganda National Bureau of Standards has directed cigarette makers to display in their packaging that smokers face certain death by consuming their product.

The warning that manufacturers are to imprint on packets within the next six months will read, Cigarette smoking causes lung cancer, heart diseases and death” as opposed to the current warning, Cigarette smoking can be harmful to your health. Dr Terry Kahuma, the executive director of UNBS in a letter to the ministers of Health and Trade, said the alert would be carried in English and Kiswahili.

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