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A survey of more than 26,500 citizens from 27 EU Member States and Norway was conducted in December 2008 to evaluate opinions towards tobacco use and various policies implemented by EU members
A survey of more than 26,500 citizens from 27 EU Member States and Norway was conducted in December 2008 to evaluate opinions towards tobacco use and various policies implemented by EU members, including health warnings on tobacco packages.
The results indicate that three out of 10 (31%) EU citizens think that health warnings on tobacco packs are effective in informing them about the hazards and effects of smoking. Warnings are perceived as similarly effective in preventing respondents…
The Supreme Court asks government why pictorial warnings on cigarette packages have not yet been implemented despite passing law in 2006 that would make it mandatory.
New Delhi (PTI): The Supreme Court has sought a response from the Centre on the allegations of an NGO that the government under pressure from the "tobacco lobby" was dragging its feet on issuing statutory pictorial warning on cigarette and tobacco products.
"Why are you not implementing it? Millions are being affected, families are getting destroyed," a bench of Justices B N Aggrawal and G S Singhvi told the Government in a terse observation while issuing notice on the application moved…
Read More »Those graphic pictures of diseased lungs and rotting teeth on cigarette packets actually work, and have inspired tens of thousands of people to quit smoking.
Calls to QuitSA's Quitline have doubled since the introduction of the warnings, with almost 165,000 calls recorded.
The graphic health warnings, many featuring diseased organs, are mandated under Australia's Trade Practices Act, with 90 per cent of cigarette packs now carrying health warnings...
Full Article: Adelaide Now... (March 3, 2009)
The new warnings about the dangers of tobacco follows in the footsteps of the UK, Canada and Brazil.
Dubai: Starting September, tobacco products in the UAE will carry a message and a warning that will be hard to ignore.
Graphics of blackened lungs and a haemorrhage-impacted brain, among others, will provide stark warnings about the dangers on cigarette packs sold in the country, following in the footsteps of the UK, Canada and Brazil...
Full Article: Gulfnews.com (March 3, 2009)
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