Tobacco packaging strategies aimed at undermining graphic health warnings

Graphic tobacco warnings having desired effect.

The FDA's graphic tobacco warnings and the first amendment.

UK government to put graphic warnings on tobacco products.

BMJ | 8 SepteMBer 2007 | VoluMe 335 Zosia Kmietowicz london The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, the United Kingdom’s fertility watchdog, will decide this week whether to approve in principle the use of hybrid animal-human embryos for research. Results of a public consultation on the matter, which were released before the authority’s decisive meeting that was due to be held on Wedn...

Lessons from New Zealand's introduction of pictorial health warnings on tobacco packaging.

While international evidence suggests that featuring pictorial health warnings on tobacco packaging is an effective tobacco control intervention, the process used to introduce these new warnings has not been well documented. We examined relevant documents and interviewed officials responsible for this process in New Zealand. We found that, despite tobacco companies' opposition to pictorial heal...

Standardised packaging and new enlarged graphic health warnings for tobacco products in Australia—legislative requirements and implementation of the Tobacco Plain Packaging Act 2011 and the Competition and Consumer (Tobacco) Information Standard, 2011

This paper describes the development, content and implementation of two pieces of Australian tobacco control legislation: one to standardise the packaging of tobacco products and the other to introduce new, enlarged graphic health warnings. It describes the process of legislative drafting, public consultation and parliamentary consideration. It summarises exactly how tobacco products have been ...