Cigarette In Plain Packs To Become ‘Global’

In 2012 Australia implemented the plain packaging and became the first country in the world to do so.

“It is encouraging that the government is looking not only to eliminate tobacco-company promotion on packages, but also to standardize the shape of the package and to ban slim cigarettes”, says Cunningham.

Program Associate at Students For Liberty David Clement was present in front of Canada’s federal parliament on Tuesday to hand out the chocolate bars in protest of the idea of the plain packaging of tobacco products, due to be introduced by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s administration.

Numerous countries considering plain packaging, and others around the world, already include large warnings about health risk, and some also include pictures of disease, which have been shown in some cases to reduce smoking.

The move to introduce plain packaging of cigarettes is to ensure that the move kills the glamour and attractiveness of smoking. What the and the Belize Bureau of Standards at the National Drug Abuse Control through the Ministry of Health and through the National Tobacco Draft Bill is trying to do is making sure we have that on law and is actually regulated.

The news comes at the same time that WHO Director General Dr Margaret Chan has called on governments around the world “to get ready for more plain packaging of tobacco products”.

“With products already hidden from view in stores and 75 percent of the pack covered with health warnings, nobody starts smoking because of the pack”, said Eric Gagnon, a spokesman for Imperial Tobacco.

Smoking is the leading cause of preventable disease and death in Canada, including about 30% of all cancer deaths.

“It is precisely because plain packaging will reduce sales that tobacco companies are objecting so loudly”.

The proposal, which would prohibit brand colours, logos and graphics on tobacco packages, has been recommended by the World Health Organization.

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However, the Tobacco Manufacturers’ Association said that the policy was being “driven more by dogma than hard fact”.