In preparation for COP 3
Draft guidelines for implementation of article 11, packaging and labeling, ici en françaisHere are the FCTCpreparatory documents already available (unfortunately only in pdf) for the preparation of...
View ArticleUK: Towards plain packaging?
UK is considering plan packaging. The Tobacco industry is worried.Source: The Observer'Plain packets' law to strip cigarettes of their glamour - The Observer September 22, 2008 Denis Campbell...
View ArticleLatest news from Rob Cunningham: Picture health warnings required by 23...
Rob provides us (as usual) with the latest information. I noticed the opening of a new site called the Tobacco Labelling Resource Centre (too bad it is not in a blog format as it would be much easier...
View ArticleUK: An opinion against graphic warnings
Graphic warnings are coming to the UK and Times columnist Mike Hume really dislikes them. His reasoning and arguments are not new but from time to time it is useful to keep track of them. From The...
View ArticleAbout plain packaging: Kill the tobacco industry or it will keep killing
Simon Chapman and Becky Freeman published this opinion about plain packaging in the Sidney Morning Herald. Kill the tobacco industry, or it will keep killing Simon Chapman and Becky Freeman October 2,...
View ArticleIndia postpones the introduction of graphic health warnings until May 2009
Supposedly it is because the economic recession and the warnings would be too much for the tobacco industry. A sad example of the industry's political muscle when India is going to host the next World...
View ArticleInhaling Fear: why Martin Lindstrom does not believe in graphic warnings
It is an OpEd in the New York Times. I am not convinced. The industry knows better and they definitely oppose graphic health warnings. I wonder what Lindstrom has to gain: the pleasure of being a...
View ArticlePhilippines: Congressmen got cash to oppose graphic warnings
A very interesting article. Source:ABS-CBNCongressmen got cash to oppose anti-smoking graphic warning bill - ABS-CBNJanuary 18, 2009Aries RufoOn June 10, 2008, at the House of Representatives, the...
View ArticleNew Zealand: Images credited with helping 170,000 stub out bad habit
Two years ago, when the introduction of photographic health warnings on cigarette packets were announced, a quarter of New Zealanders smoked. Now, almost a year after the graphic reminders of the...
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WORLD NO TOBACCO DAY 2009 Theme: Tobacco Health Warnings
The World Health Organization (WHO) selected "Tobacco Health Warnings" as the theme for the next World No Tobacco Day, which will take place on 31 May 2009. Tobacco health warnings appear on packs of...
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Malaysia: graphic warnings to appear in March
The text says "Cigarettes cause neck cancerSource: AsiaOne HealthGraphic warnings appear on Malaysian cigarette packs[Top: The label on this pack of a cigarette pack sold in Malaysia comes with a...
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Iran: here come the graphic health warnings
Ali Abdolahinia, M.D, Research Manager for the Iranian Anti Tobacco Association explains:"The first series of tobacco products with Health Warning pictures have been introduced to the Iranian market....
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Mauritius Island: Graphic warnings to figure on cigarette packs sold in...
From the blog of Véronique Le Clézio (with all our congratulations):The new amendments to the tobacco law and the 8 graphic warning images were presented to the media during a press conference at the...
View ArticleWorld’s Largest Cigarette Package Health Warnings – Historical Evolution
With Mauritius enacting graphic health warnings that will take 65% of the surface of a pack, the Canadian expert Rob Cunningham gives us a short chronology listing each occasion where a new world...
View ArticleChina: China's anti-tobacco fighters demand warning pictures on cigarettes
Anti-tobacco advocates are looking for support on the internet (via the net citizens or netizens) according to this article published in the People's Daily.Source:People's Daily Online China's...
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Bangladesh: graphic health warnings requested by a human chain
The present written tobacco health warning is of no use as most of the people in Bangladesh are illiterate. So, graphic health warnings for tobacco products are much needed for mass understanding of...
View ArticleEuropean Commission will look at which pictures work best to help smokers quit
The European Commission is planning a new study aimed at developing better graphic images to warn of the damaging effects of tobacco, in a bid to encourage more European Union countries to put the...
View ArticleSpain to place graphic warnings on cigarette packs
Spain said Tuesday it plans to force tobacco companies to put gruesome images on cigarette packets to warn smokers of the health risks, a measure already introduced in some other European countries.The...
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Malaysia: put Adnan on cigarette packs, not hideous pictures
Maybe something that should be tested: including "positive" pictures along the frightening ones and see how they compare. Could Adnan who quit smoking at 50 be a role model?Source: New Straits Times
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Uruguay: New graphic warnings on 80% of the pack. CONGRATULATIONS!
Rob Cunningham writes (and we totally agree): Congratulations to Uruguay which yesterday on September 1, 2009 finalized Ministerial Ordonnance 466/2009 to require a new set of six graphic warnings to...
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