India is set to impose new regulations that will see 80 percent of the front and back faces of tobacco packs covered with health warnings, according to a story by Sanchita Sharma for the Hindustan Times. Read More
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The majority of cigarette packs in Indonesia do not comply with the country’s new graphic health warning requirements, according to a report in The Jakarta Post. The Drug and Food Monitoring Agency (DFMA) said Read More
Indonesia’s Food and Drug Monitoring Agency (FDMA) has told tobacco companies to comply with a government regulation requiring pictorial health warnings on cigarette packs by June 24, reports The Jakarta Post. Indonesian tobacco companies produced 3,392 Read More
The introduction of standardized packaging in Ireland will not force smokers to quit their habit nor prevent smoking initiation, according to Patrick Basham, who co-authored The Plain Truth: Does Packaging Influence Smoking? Writing in The Read More
Each cigarette sold in Malaysia could be printed with a health warning under proposals being considered by the country’s Health Ministry. In addition, cigarette pack health warnings could be increased in size, according to Read More
Australia’s largest tobacco retail franchise says it does not believe that it is in breach of Victorian state tobacco laws by giving away free cigarette-pack covers, according to a story by Rachel Wells for Read More
The Malaysian government is considering whether it should make tobacco manufacturers print ‘Smoking is hazardous to health’ on every cigarette they produce, according to a story in The Star. This and other new provisions are Read More
Thailand’s Public Health Ministry is planning to file an appeal with the Supreme Administrative Court so that its requirement for bigger graphic health warnings on cigarette packs can be imposed as planned, according to Read More
Labels should distinguish between combustible and smoke-free products. Read More
Critics say the measure fails to distinguish between cigarettes and smoke-free productsRead More