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IN A week in which the European Union decided to increase the size and horror
factor of health warnings on cigarette packets, 快猫短视频 can
exclusively reveal a new twist: a talking cigarette packet that recites a health
warning every time you open it. Ironically, the idea comes from a firm that
supplies machinery to make cigarettes.

The revelation comes from a patent (GB 2351061) filed by Molins in High
Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. A stiff plastic strip connects the hinged lid of a
cigarette packet to a microchip and a miniature loudspeaker hidden in the base.
As the smoker opens the lid, the strip slides to close a switch and trigger
playback of a small recording, which could be music鈥攁 funeral march,
perhaps鈥攐r a health warning 鈥渋n any or several languages鈥�.

Anti-smoking organisation Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) is highly amused
by the idea of a cigarette packet which verbally tells a smoker 鈥渢his may kill
you鈥�. But spokeswoman Amanda Sandford fears that it鈥檚 something 鈥渢obacco
companies would only use if required by law鈥�.

But Molins鈥� spokesman Andrew Pennycook thinks it could prove popular: 鈥淭he
industry is always looking for innovations that give an advantage,鈥� he says.