The Northern Ireland government has confirmed it will implement the UK-wide proposed regulations on standardised packaging for cigarettes and hand rolling tobacco. The decision comes after the Welsh government gave its consent last week ...
Starting April 2015, tobacco companies in India will have to cover 85% of both sides of cigarette packs or other tobacco products with graphics and text warnings about adverse health effects. This will turn India into the country with the ...
Tags: cigarette packs, packages
Alcohol bottles need to have health warning labels similar to those on cigarette packets, a group of UK parliamentarians have recommended the government. The All Parliamentary Group on Alcohol Misuse has made ten recommendations to the ...
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 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 ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Cigarette, Cigarette Packaging
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 ...
Tags: Cigarette Packaging, Packaging, Printing
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 “No Thank EU” campaign gives retailers and consumers the opportunity to register their opposition to the proposed regulations that include a ban on menthol cigarettes and 10-packs. The revised Tobacco Products Directive ...
Tags: EU Tobacco Directive, Smokers
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said on Friday (12 July) that a decision on plain packaging had been postponed in order to assess how a similar scheme was operating in Australia. 'Protect jobs' Former managing director of Weidenhammer UK ...
The UK Department of Health’s consultation on plain tobacco packaging came to an end, after being, following its extension by a month to let more people to respond as it evoked strong public interest. As per the proposal, packets ...
Tags: Plain Tobacco Packaging, standard packaging, plain packaging
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