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New Graphic Cigarette Warning Labels - A man with a hole in his throat, a woman with cancer, a cemetery, a dead man, some realistic, some cartoonish: Any one could soon be printed on every single pack of cigarettes. Wednesday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration unveiled 36 graphic options and the agency wants to know what you think. “It really helps to drive home an ugly but real message that is how deadly smoking can be and how dangerous it is. There are about 3,900 kids every day that start smoking,” says Allison Miller with the American Cancer Society. Miller says the change in the warning labels is the first of its kind in 25 years. It’s a change she calls a long time coming. “Cigarette smoking causes lung cancer in almost 90% of the cases of lung cancer. It's the greatest killer of Americans as far as cancer deaths go. It's very hard to treat, it's hard to detect, but we know how to prevent it and that is by not smoking,” Miller says. “As a smoker I’ve tr...