Feb 28, 2008

Graphic images of diseased lungs and rotting teeth and gums must be displayed on cigarette packets sold in New Zealand from tomorrow.

The gruesome displays are common overseas. Their introduction here is the latest move by the Government to try to turn people off smoking…

Full article: The New Zealand Herald (February 27, 2008)

Feb 21, 2008

NEW DELHI: The Health Ministry’s plan to make gory pictorial warnings mandatory on all tobacco products is going up in smoke.

Dead against the ministry’s originally shortlisted photographs that depict cancerous tumours, rotting teeth and diseased throats, the department of audio visual publicity under the Information and Broadcasting Ministry has now suggested three new photographs, all of them mild…

Full article: The Times of India (February 20, 2008)