South Africa is set to introduce plain packaging for cigarettes by 2015, according to Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi. Although investigation has been continuing on the ban of Australia's tobacco branding by World Trade Organisation ...
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The Government of Indonesia has announced plans to issue a new law on liquor, under which manufacturers need to use plain packaging or print graphic warnings on packaging. The latest move is being taken in a bid to cut down the number of ...
Indonesian cigarette manufacturers have started printing graphic health warnings on the packs, as the law related to it came into force in the country. To reduce the habit of smoking, specifically among youth, Indonesia has introduced ...
Ireland Health Minister Dr James Reilly is set to bring the draft for plain cigarette packaging to Cabinet for approval. If approved by Cabinet and enacted by the Oireachtas, the new law will see the ban on the use of any logos on ...
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"Ireland will be the first country in the European Union to introduce such legislation and the third country worldwide. Australia introduced plain packaging legislation in November 2011 and the New Zealand Bill had its first reading in ...
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A cross party group of peers tabled amendments to the children and families bill that would have introduced plain packaging, although implementation will be subject to an evidence review. In July the government delayed plans to ban ...
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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, ...
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Ireland is all set to introduce plain cigarette packaging and uniform labeling and will become the first country in the European Union to ban branding on packages. All trademarks, logos, colors and graphics from tobacco products will be ...
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US-based FIN Branding Group is all set to launch its new electronic cigarette packaging at the National Association of Tobacco Outlets (NATO) Convention on 22 – 24 April 2013 in Las Vegas. FIN Branding CEO Elliot Maisel said the new ...
Australia objected to Ukraine’s request to the World Trade Organisation (WTO), to set up a panel to hear a dispute on Australia’s plain cigarette packaging rules. Though Ukraine has not much of cigarette trade with Australia, ...
In a two-part series made exclusively by Watch Me Think, consumers in Australia and the UK share their views on what tobacco packaging, and the arrival of ‘plain’ packaging, means to them. The issue has caused controversy not ...
The idea of introducing plain packaging for cigarettes is likely to lead to a rise in youth smoking, according to a report by Adam Smith Institute, a free market think-tank. The report insists that the replacement of all brand packaging ...
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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 ...
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Australian High Court has dismissed claims by tobacco companies that the government illegally seized their intellectual property by barring the display of trademarks on packs and gave its approval to go ahead with a ban on color cigarette ...
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The blurred head-and-upper-body image appears above the words ‘Smoking Kills’. The Indian Express said it was part of an anti-smoking drive. The government’s directorate of visual publicity said it was unclear why the ...
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