In September 2003, the EU's then-health and consumer-protection commissioner, Britain's David Byrne, said he was convinced that "an image really is worth more than a thousand words," and called for "innovative ways to illustrate the reality that half of smokers will die from illnesses related to their addiction." He argued that countries that were already using the images "had shown that this was an effective way to warn people." Eight years on, Byrne's call for innovation seems to have gone unheeded, say the advertising experts
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(2007) find that counterfeit cigarettes can have as much as seven times the lead of legitimate brands, and close to three times as much thallium.[13] Other sources report finding insect eggs, dead flies, mold, and human feces in counterfeit cigarettes.[14] As was the case during the prohibition of alcohol in the United States during the 1920s, increased enforcement has not yielded beneficial results for decreasing the prevalence of bootlegging because the profit margins are so large and the distribution networks are growing more sophisticated