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Local bodegas will have smaller but visible 'Smoking Kills' signs, Board of Health approves 

The Health�Department's grim new anti-smoking signs should start showing up at bodega cash registers in December - putting blackened lungs in your face in time for Christmas.

The signs will bear messages such as "SMOKING KILLS" with stark images of diseased and cancerous lips and lungs, posted at all 12,000 city stores that sell cigarettes.

The Board of Health on�Tuesday approved the signs, which will be 1 foot square on cash registers and 2 feet square on cigarette displays - a concession to opponents who said the originally proposed 3-foot-square signs would hurt retailers.

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