Tagged Plain Packaging

June 1, 2016

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This year for World No Tobacco Day on May 31 the World Health Organization has recommended that countries adopt plain packaging as a way to reduce tobacco use, however so far mostly only rich countries have bee...

Tobacco consumption plunges in Australia: plain packaging

September 3, 2015

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The latest ABS National Accounts figures show tobacco consumption fell a further 2.2 per cent in the June quarter. Tobacco consumption has now plunged 13 per cent over the past 12 months, and a staggering 19...

A Victory for Standardized Packaging

June 23, 2015

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Earlier this month, the Australian Bureau of Statistics released figures showing that tobacco and cigarette consumption in Australia have dropped dramatically. Household tobacco consumption and expenditure volu...

Australian plain packaging leads to dramatic declines in tobacco use

June 4, 2015

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The tobacco industry has been hit by the heaviest declines on record amid otherwise strong economic growth for the nation, the latest figures show. Treasurer Joe Hockey may have described the national accoun...

Two FCTC Parties emphasize trade over saving lives from tobacco

November 3, 2014

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WTO members meeting as the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Council on 28–29 October 2014 responded to the latest developments on plain packaging for tobacco products, exchanged vie...

Why Uruguay’s David and Goliath fight with big tobacco really matters

July 16, 2014

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LIMA, Peru — A protracted legal battle in an obscure World Bank tribunal over the principles of market competition in a South American backwater. Even by trade dispute standards, this one sounds arcane — the pe...

World Health Organisation says Pacific considering cigarette plain packaging

June 29, 2014

Plain packaging pushes cigarette sales down

June 24, 2014

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The Australian federal Treasury has entered the debate over cigarette sales, publishing previously secret information that shows sales falling since the introduction of graphic health warnings and plain packagi...

Real data show that plain packaging IS working in Australia

June 17, 2014

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The Australian's 'exclusive' story on plain packaging is just plain wrong. Watch more here>...

PH a step closer to graphic health warning on cigarettes

June 10, 2014

Panel Appointed For WTO Mega-Case On Australia Tobacco Packaging

May 7, 2014

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World Trade Organization Director General Roberto Azevêdo yesterday appointed three panellists to examine the dispute against an Australian public health measure requiring tobacco products to be sold in plain p...

Congratulations to Thailand on Protecting its Citizens from Tobacco!

March 11, 2013

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Thailand continues its leadership in protecting its citizens from the ravages of tobacco. ASH congratulates them on the world's largest health warnings! ...

Tobacco Firms ‘Must Accept Damage’

March 8, 2013

EU tobacco-producing countries must accept damage to their industry in the drive to stop people smoking, Minister for Health James Reilly has said. Ireland had prioritised a plan to ban flavoured tobacco and s...

New Zealand’s Proposed Plain Packaging

December 7, 2012

The discussion about New Zealand’s proposed law on plain packaging for cigarettes and other tobacco products, largely followed the earlier debates on Australia’s law. New Zealand notified its intention to i...

In Graphic Warnings Case, Tobacco Lawyers Fight Full D.C. Circuit Review

November 1, 2012

Lawyers for major tobacco companies said Monday they do not want the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to touch a panel's ruling that went against the government's controversial graphic warnin...

Smokers Left Gagging by Not-So-Plain Cigarette Packets

October 26, 2012

TOOWOOMBA'S smokers have been left gagging as new not-so-plain cigarette packets start to filter into stores. A packet of Winfield Blues is no longer the colour its name would suggest - instead a sickly look...

CDC Studying Anti-Smoking Ad Outcome

September 24, 2012

The CDC is trying to find out how well a $54 million campaign of emotional ads to scare smokers into quitting worked, researchers said. During the 3 months that the ads aired on TV, radio, and social media, ...

Plain Cigarette Packaging: Australia’s Victory

September 17, 2012

“We have taken on big tobacco... and we have won”, said Australia’s Attorney-General Nicola Roxon, hailing the judgement from Australia’s High Court that the country’s tobacco companies had failed in their chal...

Big Tobacco Warning at Free-Trade Talks

September 11, 2012

Delegates attending trans-Pacific free-trade negotiations in the United States are being warned their countries could end up like Australia if they agree to allow corporations to sue governments in internat...

Plain Package Cigarettes Reduce Smoking Appeal: Study

September 4, 2012

A new study has discredited the tobacco industry's assertion that there is no proof plain packaging on cigarette packs reduces the appeal of smoking. Scientists from Canada, the United States and Brazil cond...

Smoke Signals: Plans of Big Tobacco Plain to See

August 29, 2012

IT'S easy to laugh at Big Tobacco. Fresh from defeat in Australia's High Court, it has taken its fight against plain cigarette packets to New Zealand where British American Tobacco warns such legislation could ...

Two Silver Linings to Graphic Warnings Decision

August 27, 2012

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As anyone who follows tobacco-related news now knows, last Friday an appeals court upheld a lower court ruling striking down the FDA’s proposed graphic warnings for cigarette packages. In a 2-1 decision, the ...

U.S. Court Strikes Down Graphic Warnings on Cigarettes

August 24, 2012

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Friday struck down a law that requires tobacco companies to use graphic health warnings, such as of a man exhaling smoke through a hole in his throat. The 2-1 dec...

Tobacco Boss Says Some Regulation OK

August 22, 2012