Australia to become first country to introduce unbranded cigarette packets
Cigarettes to be sold in the same olive green packs
Health warnings will cover 75% of packs' frontAustralia is to become the first nation to ban logos and other advertising on cigarette packs to make smoking less appealing.
The new laws means tobacco companies wont be able to display their distinctive colours, brand designs and logos on the packets.
Instead cigarettes will all be sold in the same olive green packs with brand names dwarfed by often gruesome, full-colour health warnings covering 75 per cent of the packs' front.
Australia is to become the first nation to ban logos and other advertising on cigarette packs to make smoking less appealing
Graphic health warnings currently cover only 30 per cent.
The government has vowed to fight tobacco companies over the legislation change, which comes into force from December next year, in court.
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Australia to become first country to introduce unbranded cigarette packets
| Mail Online
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