Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2015 3:52:37 GMT 7
Cigarette packs in Australia look different from anywhere else in the world. There are no brand logos, no bright colors. Every pack is the same shade of dull brown, plastered with graphic images showing the health impacts of smoking. There’s the gangrenous foot, mouth cancer, and everyone’s favorite, the creepy sickly eye.
Tobacco companies don’t do this by choice. In 2011, Australia became the first country in the world to pass plain packaging laws that severely restrict what can appear on cigarette packs.
Naturally, Big Tobacco hates these laws and has done everything it can think of to get rid of them. On Friday, Australia defeated a challenge by cigarette giant Philip Morris after a four-year international trade dispute in Singapore.
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Tobacco companies don’t do this by choice. In 2011, Australia became the first country in the world to pass plain packaging laws that severely restrict what can appear on cigarette packs.
Naturally, Big Tobacco hates these laws and has done everything it can think of to get rid of them. On Friday, Australia defeated a challenge by cigarette giant Philip Morris after a four-year international trade dispute in Singapore.
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www.vox.com/2015/12/20/10629896/australia-plain-packaging
