Canadian Cancer Society released a report which shows that there is increasing number of countries where cigarette packs should have graphic health warnings. Canada was the only country in 2001 to implement such policy. Today the talk is about 77 countries that require graphic health warnings.on cigarette packs. By the end of 2012 there were
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Monday, December 23, 2013
Warnings on Every Cigarette Encourage More Smokers to Quit
A research showed that health warnings on every cigarette would encourage more people to quit smoking. The talk is about timelines that demonstrate smokers that every cigarette shortens their life by 11 minutes and a list of toxic substances found in cigarettes that affect health negatively.The results of the study were published in Tobacco Control
Monday, December 2, 2013
Graphic Warning Labels on Cigarette Packs could Reduce Smokers in the US
A new study published in Tobacco Control journal demonstrates that graphic warning labels on cigarette packs resulted in decrease in smoking rates in Canada by 20% in 2009. The authors of the study say that if the USA introdused graphic warnings, it would help to decrease significantly number of smokers in the country. However, FDA
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Quebec takes advice from Australia on strict tobacco laws
The woman behind Australia’s strict tobacco laws is in Quebec City this week to advocate for plain cigarette packaging in the province.
On Tuesday, former Australian health minister Nicola Roxon will be briefing a national assembly committee, which is considering revisions to the Quebec Tobacco Act, telling members about Australia’s packaging restrictions.
Roxon says that while it’s too early to measure the long-term effect of the changes, Australia put into effect in December, she has already seen research suggesting the new packs encourage people to think about quitting more often.
Australia's new regulations mean cigarette packs are stripped of all advertising and logos and replaced with graphic health warnings.
The only differences between brands are the names and descriptions, which must all be written in the same plain font.
Roxon says some people have even reported their cigarettes tasted worse in the new packs. She hopes Quebec will take her advice and consider changing its packaging laws.
For many years, Australia followed the lead of Quebec and Canada when it came to tobacco control, but Roxon says they noticed tobacco companies were discovering loopholes.
“We saw the packs getting sexier and sexier, basically, and getting around our advertising laws by turning those packs themselves into a promotional tool,” Roxon told CBC’s Daybreak.
She said tobacco companies were becoming increasingly aggressive and targeting young audiences with colourful packaging.
“It means that a smoker, every time that they took a packet of cigarettes out of their pocket or out of their purse, were really advertising the product to their friends and colleagues,” Roxon says.
The former minister warns that tobacco companies will do everything possible to lobby against stricter regulation, but she says it’s worth it.
On Tuesday, former Australian health minister Nicola Roxon will be briefing a national assembly committee, which is considering revisions to the Quebec Tobacco Act, telling members about Australia’s packaging restrictions.
Roxon says that while it’s too early to measure the long-term effect of the changes, Australia put into effect in December, she has already seen research suggesting the new packs encourage people to think about quitting more often.
Australia's new regulations mean cigarette packs are stripped of all advertising and logos and replaced with graphic health warnings.
The only differences between brands are the names and descriptions, which must all be written in the same plain font.
Roxon says some people have even reported their cigarettes tasted worse in the new packs. She hopes Quebec will take her advice and consider changing its packaging laws.
For many years, Australia followed the lead of Quebec and Canada when it came to tobacco control, but Roxon says they noticed tobacco companies were discovering loopholes.
“We saw the packs getting sexier and sexier, basically, and getting around our advertising laws by turning those packs themselves into a promotional tool,” Roxon told CBC’s Daybreak.
She said tobacco companies were becoming increasingly aggressive and targeting young audiences with colourful packaging.
“It means that a smoker, every time that they took a packet of cigarettes out of their pocket or out of their purse, were really advertising the product to their friends and colleagues,” Roxon says.
The former minister warns that tobacco companies will do everything possible to lobby against stricter regulation, but she says it’s worth it.
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Warnings on Cigarette Packs in Australia
Australia has been out in front in requiring graphic imagery on tobacco labels. European Union ministers agreed last month on new rules that would require a health warning that would combine pictures and text and cover 65 percent of the front and back of all cigarette packs, up from 40 percent. The rules require approval by the European Parliament.
In the United States, a 2009 law empowered the Food and Drug Administration to require large graphic and text warnings on the top half of the front and back of cigarette packs. But as federal courts have wrestled with the details of that law in challenges by the tobacco industry, the F.D.A. has not yet imposed a final set of labeling requirements.
Tobacco is taxed heavily in Australia, where smokers spend about 16 Australian dollars, or $14.70, for a pack of cigarettes. Partly as a result, smoking rates in Australia have declined. Last year, according to the latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, 20.4 percent of adult men were smokers and 16.3 percent of adult women smoked.
In the United States, the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that the smoking rate was 21.5 percent among adult men and 17.3 percent for adult women.
Smoking is also banned in nearly all enclosed public spaces in Australia, including restaurants, bars, sporting facilities and places of business.
In the United States, a 2009 law empowered the Food and Drug Administration to require large graphic and text warnings on the top half of the front and back of cigarette packs. But as federal courts have wrestled with the details of that law in challenges by the tobacco industry, the F.D.A. has not yet imposed a final set of labeling requirements.
Tobacco is taxed heavily in Australia, where smokers spend about 16 Australian dollars, or $14.70, for a pack of cigarettes. Partly as a result, smoking rates in Australia have declined. Last year, according to the latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, 20.4 percent of adult men were smokers and 16.3 percent of adult women smoked.
In the United States, the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that the smoking rate was 21.5 percent among adult men and 17.3 percent for adult women.
Smoking is also banned in nearly all enclosed public spaces in Australia, including restaurants, bars, sporting facilities and places of business.
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Russian Parliament passed the strictest anti-tobacco bill in Europe
According to the Lower House of the Russian Parliament, it has passed the strictest anti-tobacco bill in Europe in the third final reading. Beginning with this summer smoking will be banned in public buildings or on playgrounds; tobacco ads will not be allowed; and it will be prohibited to put cigarette packs on display in
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