The Canadian government announced its plans to adopt plain packaging on cigarettes packs earlier this year.
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The World Health Organization released Tuesday an 86-page report on “plain packaging”, hoping to decrease the lure of smoking on “World No Tobacco Day”.
“Our experience with other countries, once a country goes into a complete ban on smoking in public places, the acceleration of tobacco control policies is phenomenal and the reason is once people get used to smoke-free environment, they get very angry when there are reversals in tobacco control”, Ms. Mercado said during the celebration of the World No Tobacco Day.
“Plain packaging prohibits the use of trademarks and therefore significantly erodes the value of this intellectual property – a risky precedent to set for commerce in general”, the letter said.
“There’s no question about whether we are going to proceed with plain packaging regulations”, Philpott said. About 5 million of those are from direct tobacco use.
Over 300 tobacco farmers and retailers held a protest here on Tuesday demanding roll-back of the 85 per cent pictorial warnings on packets of tobacco products, saying it was The protesters said the increase in pictorial warnings on tobacco packets was helping foreign tobacco brands in India, which do not carry any pictorial warnings. However, it is imperative to remember that no single measure for tobacco control works alone, he added. The first ever nation to do so is Australia back in December 2012.
China – the world’s largest producer and consumer of cigarettes – has stepped up its battle on tobacco. Only the brand and product name could be displayed in a standard font style and color. France and Britain have recently started implementation while Ireland is preparing to introduce the reform.
The survey also showed that soldiers smoke an average of 11.8 cigarettes a day which is 7.3 cigarettes more per day than before they entered the military.
On 20 May, plain cigarette packaging rules were introduced in the United Kingdom, after the High Court ruled against a legal challenge from big tobacco firms to block the legislation. “But we won’t be satisfied with fewer smokers – we want zero smokers”, said Dr. Alvaro Carrascal, Vice President of Eastern Division Health Systems for the American Cancer Society.
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According to World Health Organization, one person dies from tobacco-caused disease every six seconds, amounting to almost six million people each year – a number expected to rise to more than eight million by 2030.
