Warning: changes ahead
Critics contend that plain packaging has done little to reduce smoking rate in Australia.
Graphic warnings on UK cigarette packs are expected to be replaced by Australian versions in the event of the country’s making a no-deal exit from the EU, according to a story at bbc.com.
Tobacco manufacturers have had to print images highlighting the dangers of smoking on all their products sold in the UK since 2009.
However, the government said in August that the images would have to change because the European Commission owned the copyright to those currently in use.
Now it says the Australian government has agreed to supply alternatives.
The change is one of many small ways in which a no-deal ‘Brexit’ could affect British life, and which are being flagged up by government departments via ‘technical notices’.