This undated photo released by Egypt's Ministry of Health shows one of a series of four new tobacco warning labels which will appear on packets of cigarettes sold in the country.
Offering a cigarette is as common a social gesture as a handshake in Egypt, but starting Aug. 1, cigarette labels in Egypt will be required to carry images of the effects of smoking: a dying man in an oxygen mask, a coughing child, a fetus with a warning of the harm to pregnancy, or a limp cigarette, symbolizing impotence.
Message in Arabic reads "Warning, smoking damages the health and causes death. The damaging effect of smoking harms the smoker and the non smoker. Smoking causes diseases of the heart and circulatory system".
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