Caught on camera
Germany is one of a dwindling number of developed countries where tobacco can still be displayed openly at points of sale.
A study by researchers at the Limerick Institute of Technology, Ireland, has found that ‘diversity is ostensibly lacking’ in images used as part of the EU’s Tobacco Products Directive, according to a story by Sarah Burns for The Irish Times.
Among 42 anti-smoking images used on cigarette packages and in campaigns, none ‘distinctly include’ members of a racial or ethnic minority, they found.
‘All visible models, or body parts of models, used in the campaigns are Caucasian,” the researchers concluded.