Cigarette plain packaging laws come into force in Australia

Smoking warnings and diseased body parts emblazoned on dull green boxes that are the same for all tobacco brandsAustralia’s world-first laws on cigarette and tobacco plain packaging have come into force, replacing brand logos and colours with generic drab olive green coverings, gruesome pictures of diseased body parts and depictions of children and babies made ill by their parents’ smoking.Apart from the varying health warnings and images the only difference between the packs, mandatory from Saturday, are the brand names, and these are all printed in identical small font. It is the world’s most strict regime for the packaging Full Story Cigarette plain packaging laws come into force in Australia

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