Health warnings that are displayed on the front of cigarette packets in the UK are 'not up to the job', according to the British Heart Foundation. BHF has conducted a survey on smoking, which noted that only a 36% of teenagers in the UK ...
Tags: Cigarette Packs, Packaging
The tobacco giant exhibiting at the Labour Party conference in Brighton despite the party having already committed to backing standardised packaging for cigarettes. The Tobacco Retailer's Alliance has also taken a stand at the event, ...
Tags: Cigarette Packaging
The EU Parliamentary committee (ENVI) responsible for making recommendations on the revised proposed EU Tobacco Products Directive were due to vote on the proposals last Thursday (5 September). They also planned to ban slim cigarettes and ...
Eight out of ten women in the UK agree that bright, colorful packaging tends to make products attractive to children aged under 18, according to new figures published by Cancer Research UK. The YouGov survey conducted for more than 2000 ...
Tags: Colorful Tobacco, Packaging
The law change, which will be introduced later this year, will require all cigarette packs and tobacco pouches to carry graphic warnings and be stripped of branding, while tobacco brand names will have to be printed in standard font type ...
New Zealand Government has decided to bring in legislation and follow Australia's lead in compelling cigarette manufacturers to sell their products in plain packaging. As part of the move, all cigarette packs and tobacco pouches will ...
British American Tobacco (BAT) has commenced legal proceedings against the Australian government over the country's world-first plan to exclude all marketing text and images from cigarette packs. The company said it started the proceedings ...
Singapore’s Health Promotion Board (HPB) in partnership with the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) will introduce health warning labels on outer packaging of tobacco products effective March 2013. Under the new measure, which is part ...
Tags: Health Warning Labels, Tobacco Packaging, packaging of tobacco
A new regulation compelling tobacco firms to sell cigarettes in plain packets has come into effect in Australia. Under the law, all cigarette packs will now have to be sold in identical, olive-brown packs with the same typeface and covered ...
Tags: plain packets, cigarette packs, smoking, packs
On 31 August,Ukraine asked the to WTO set up a panel to hear a dispute on"measures concerning trademarks and other plain packaging requirements applicable to the tobacco products". Ukraine has next to no cigarette trade with Australia but ...
Tags: Ukraine, tobacco products, packaging, dispute