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[Australian] Government to demand no frills cigarette packets
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Last Edited | Jason Apr 30, 2010 04:36am |
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Media | TV News - Australian Broadcasting Corporation News |
News Date | Thursday, April 29, 2010 07:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
Description | Australia is set to become the first country in the world to introduce plain packaging for cigarettes.
Tobacco companies will only be allowed to print their brand name in a specific style and will have to remove all coloured logos and imagery from 2012, in a Federal Government bid to reduce smoking rates.
Health warnings and graphic pictures depicting the dangers of smoking will remain.
Curtin University Professor Mike Daube, who was part of a preventative health task force that recommended plain packaging, says the decision is a huge breakthrough.
"We can be absolutely sure that this will accelerate the decline in smoking," he said. |
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