article_snippet: The images emerged as it was revealed ISIS has erected shocking anti-smoking posters throughout ISIS self-declared caliphate featuring images of burning human lungs, in the hope human lungs will convince militants to reject the 'slow suicide' caused by cigarettes.
article_snippet: Shocking: The cigarette burning images emerged as it was revealed ISIS has erected shocking anti-smoking posters throughout ISIS self-declared caliphate featuring images of burning human lungs .
article_snippet: Images of the mass cigarette burning have been widely shared by ISIS supporters on social media.
article_snippet: The terror group has ruled that smoking cigarettes causes cancer and is therefore a form of suicide. 
article_snippet: is deemed a major sin by ISIS and failed attempts - or in the case of cigarettes 'slow' attempts - are considered comparable with murder.
article_snippet: To counter this, ISIS appears to now be relying less on threats and punishments to convince militants to give up smoking, and more on using similar shocking images of cancer victims that now appear on packets of cigarettes in the West.
article_snippet: In typical ISIS fashion, however, The terror group took the method to The terror group logical extreme, showing grisly images of lungs being set alight to symbolise the damage smoking does to a human body.
article_snippet: Images of the mass cigarette burning have been widely shared by ISIS supporters on social media .
highlights_snippet: Also launched graphic new billboards warning of the dangers of smoking .
  
highlights_snippet: Terror group considers smoking a form of 'slow suicide' and has banned Terror group .