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• Graphic warnings appear on Malaysian cigarette packs 

Singaporeans buying a pack of cigarettes across the Causeway may soon be faced with a familiar - if discomfitting - sight.

From March, all cigarette packs sold in Malaysia have to carry graphic pictures to warn people of the dangers of smoking, reported The Star.

The packaging regulation is part of the government's latest blitz against smoking.

In Singapore, cigarette packs started carrying graphic images such as diseased lungs and bleeding brains in August 2004. . . .

The findings of a first ever cross-cultural survey in Singapore and Scotland released last year suggested that graphic health warning labels may just be the extra push smokers need to kick the habit.

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