Reminders

NEWS

Archives for April 2008 « Recent Articles

OfflineAlex Lee

A proposal being studied by the GCC Council for Anti-Smoking stipulates that all cigarette packs must have 50% of the packaging indicating statutory health warning with a mandatory font set to 14 on the surface.

Manama, Bahrain (AHN)- Cigarette companies may have to design new packets to enter the rich oil exporting Arab countries.

According to a proposal which the six Gulf Cooperation Council countries are in the process of finalizing, all cigarette packets must have 50 per cent of the packaging indicating statutory health warning with a mandatory font set to 14 on the surface.

Full article: All Headline News  (April 9, 2008)

OfflineAlex Lee

An appalled Health Ministry is fuming about the sale of covers designed to shield smokers from gruesome new images on cigarette packets.

Called Kuverz, they are already used in Australia, where the images of mouth tumours and gangrenous toes caused by cancer have been emblazoned across cigarette packets for several years.

The covers are also available in Canada...

Full article: The Dominion Post (NZ) (April 5, 2008)



Viewed 40,653 times