Starting 1 August, cigarette packages in Egypt will be required to carry images of the effects of smoking.

The images include a dying man in an oxygen mask, a coughing child, and a limp cigarette symbolising impotence.
Egypt, where nearly 60 per cent of all adult males use tobacco in some form, has implemented the first measures aimed at reducing smoking numbers in 2005, when it ratified the WHO’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Since then, airports and Cairo's metro are strictly no-smoking, and a 2007 law banned smoking in government buildings though enforcement is still an issue. (pi)