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Several cigarette makers promised to contest the labels in court, stating they violate commercial free-speech rights. In January a federal court decided in a similar case that the federal regulators might demand graphic warnings,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], however an introduced restriction aimed to ban colors from cigarette packages violates free speech rights.
The FDA has appealed this decision. “The introduction of graphic health warnings doesn’t contribute to rising the awareness of the dangers related o smoking, but is only needed to stigmatize current smokers and denormalize their habit,cheap marlboro cigarettes,” stated Anthony Hemsley, Commonwealth Brands vice president. One of the most shocking of the introduced images is one where a person exhales cigarette smoke via a hole in the neck, as many smokers who have larynx cancer have to breathe through a tracheotomy.
However the introduced graphic health warnings are not as grim as the ones required in several European countries, where gruesome images of rotten teeth and diseased lungs give a Halloween look to cigarette packages. OTTAWA — Tobacco companies can breathe a sigh of relief thanks to the delay of Health Canada’s plan to force them to increase the size of health warnings to cover most of the surface of cigarette packages.
Health Canada shared mock-ups of supersized new warning labels with public-health advocates more than a year ago — with regulations that were expected to be tabled in January to increase the warning size from their current 50 per cent to at least 70 per cent of the package’s surface. The larger,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], more graphic images would also be accompanied by a national toll-free quit line.
Even industry appeared resigned to the fact that changes were coming,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], despite companies maintaining that the government should be focused on the illegal cigarette market, where cigarettes are sold without any health warnings or safeguards against youth access. Last September, a senior executive for Imperial Tobacco Canada told an audience in Sao Paulo,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Brazil, of pending Canadian regulations to increase graphic warning labels.
But months have since passed, and the file is stalled. “We know the department is completely ready to do the last stages of the regulatory process,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and the indications that we had received that this would be happening by now have been withdrawn,” said Cynthia Callard, executive director of Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada.
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday urged Asia-Pacific countries to protect women and girls from aggressive efforts by tobacco firms to induce them to start smoking. In a statement ahead of World No Tobacco Day on May 31, the WHO’s regional office in Manila warned that smoking among women and girls was increasing in the Asia-Pacific.
It is estimated that more than 8 per cent of girls from 13 to 15, or around 4.5 million, are using tobacco products in the region, the WHO said. “Starting early results in addiction that later translates to a life of nicotine dependence, poor health and premature death,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],” warned Shin Young-soo,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the WHO’s regional director for the Western Pacific.