A study of ninth-grade students found that nearly one-third (27.8 percent) reported never seeing warning labels on cigarettes and nearly half (46.1 percent) could not correctly identify the location of the warnings on the package (Ref
THIS INCLUDES DIRECTIONS FOR USE, PRECAUTIONARY STATEMENTS (HAZARDS TO HUMANS, DOMESTIC ANIMALS, AND ENDANGERED SPECIES), ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS, RATES OF APPLICATION, NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS, REENTRY INTERVALS, HARVEST RESTRICTIONS, STORAGE AND DISPOSAL, AND ANY SPECIFIC WARNINGS AND/OR PRECAUTIONS FOR SAFE HANDLING OF THE PESTICIDE
Its bold national advertising campaigns, with Prince Albert and Camel, drove massive sales
These manufacturing details, coupled with the fact that for over two decades, parents had more or less sanctioned these candy cigarettes, sparked a worry in parents that their children would be more likely to pick up the habit of smoking real cigarettes as adults as they had been desensitized to the action as kids
These include acetone (used in nail polish remover), arsenic (rat poison), formaldehyde (used to preserve corpses), and lead, a toxic metal that harms the nervous system