Note the labels on the local range of smokers, physicians

When you retrieve your favorite cigarette package next year, you can find a picture of a diseased lung looks down and questioning your decision to smoke. Last month, the Food and Drug Administration announced it will begin to require tobacco companies to cover the upper half of cigarette cases and 20 percent of tobacco ads with graphic anti-smoking pictures start late next year. Local residents said they doubt their warnings and frightening images that include the trachea and the holes in rotten teeth and gums will persuade them to stop smoking. But local doctors say they hope the visual impact of seeing the harmful effects of smoking every day, will be enough to convince some residents.

"People who smoke already know the risks" said Brett Badgerow, a resident of Houma. "We see it on television. We saw at school. We see it everywhere. Seeing him on cigarette packets is just a friendly reminder. If it did not work elsewhere, because the Americans were stubborn?"

About four adults in Terrebonne and Lafourche smoke cigarettes, according to County Health 2011 rating report, which sets the overall health of each county in the United States report, published in March, was prepared by University of Wisconsin, Population Health Institute of Public and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in New Jersey. Louisiana, 23 percent of adults smoke, compared to 15 percent of the country. Approximately one in five high school students smoke in Louisiana, the study found the hospital in 2008.