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The fourth edition to the Paranormal Activity movies will hit theaters October 19th against Halloween 3D, which is scheduled to open October 26th. In both 2009 and 2010, Paranormal competed against the Saw series.

The Paranormal franchise has been hugely successful, with the last movie bringing in more than $200 million, beating out the grosses of the first and second film combined! In addition, Paranormal 3 become the top horror launch in history. However, the projects are made on very small budgets; Paranormal cost $15,000, Paranormal 2 cost $3 million, and Paranormal 3 cost only $5 million to produce.

Not much is known about the fourth installment — no writer or director has even been set.  So whatcha think?

The government’s new, nastier-than-ever cigarette labels are expected to roll out by September of 2012. The larger labels show images of cancer lesions, diseased lungs, rotten teeth, and dead humans with shocking text across the packaging.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will require that the disturbing images cover at least 50% of the back of every cigarette package by October of 2012. The FDA also requires that the startling images take up at least 20% of every cigarette advertisement.

“For the first time ever, they will say that tobacco products are addictive, and they will say in the bluntest of terms that tobacco can kill,” FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg said. “We need to make sure that anyone who is considering smoking fully appreciates the consequences of cigarette use.”

New data from the Journal of Family Practices shows that in 2005, there was an abrupt halt in the once steady decline in teenage smoking rates. In 2009, the journal reports, 19.5 percent of American teens claimed to smoke regularly.

Addiction expert Harold D. Holder, of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, said that when it comes to cracking down on teenage smokers, price increases are much more effective than frightening images. He said, “research has shown that when the price of cigarettes go up, fewer people smoke. Anyone who knows teenagers knows that they all think, ‘it won’t happen to me.’”

Former smoker President Obama signed the 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, which gives the FDA authority to regulate the content, marketing, and sale of tobacco products.

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