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" People who have quit smoking may benefit from health warnings on cigarette packs, a study has found. Researchers at the VicHealth Centre for Tobacco Control in Australia analysed survey responses of almost 2,000 recent ex-smokers, all of whom took part in a tobacco survey in Canada, Australia, the UK or the US between 2002 and 2009. They found that 57.5 per cent of respondents had managed to stay off cigarettes for at least a year. Just 41 per cent of people who said tobacco pack health warnings helped them &amp;#039;a lot&amp;#039; to avoid smoking relapsed, compared with 50 per cent of those who said the warnings were unhelpful. Publishing their findings in the journal Tobacco Control, the study authors claimed that their research &amp;#039;provides the first longitudinal evidence that health warnings can help ex-smokers stay quit&amp;#039;. &amp;#039;We recommend that health professionals encourage all quitters to consider pack warnings as a potential tool to help counter their urges to resume smoking,&amp;#039; they added. All cigarette products sold in the UK are required to carry pictorial warnings on the reverse of the packaging, while a significant proportion of the surface of the pack must be covered with a written warning. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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