This week the American FDA, The Food & Drugs Administration announced to enforce new packaging and labelling guidelines for the tobacco industry. All of this is done under the “The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act”
This week the American FDA, The Food & Drugs Administration announced to enforce new packaging and labelling guidelines for the tobacco industry. All of this is done under the “The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act” (Tobacco Control Act), a very clear anti-smoking campaign to help people to quite smoking. The new act requires cigarette packages and advertisements to have larger and more visible graphic health warnings.
New Cigarette Warning Labels
These are the proposed graphic health warnings for cigarette packages and advertisements as advised by the American FDA.
Time for Implementation
The new tobacco control act requires the FDA to issue their final regulations by June 22, 2011. It is a new act applicable for all cigarette brands in all American territories. Companies like Marlboro, Camel, Philip Morris, West and Pall Mall will feel the heat.
Cigarette Pack Graphics
Fifty percent of the front and back of each package of cigarettes sold will appear with these confronting graphics. Corpses, cancer patients and diseased lungs are the images the federal government plans for larger, graphic warnings on the labels. Some of these images are shocking
Foreign Cigarette Packaging
The US images might appear shocking, however they are nothing compared to images shown on cigarette packages abroad. In some of the European and South American images have a true shocking effect on the user. In these countries it is allowed to stage the setting for the image. A open heart surgery where the heart seems to be surrounded by cigarette, or an embryo foetus in an ashtray. European studies have shown that cigarette users have been reduced since the new packaging laws came into effect.
Cigarette Use in the USA
In the USA cigarette users have been reduced from 40 percent in 1970 to 20 percent in 2008. Costs of a pack of cigarettes has increased from $0.38 in 1970 to $5.72 in 2008. Mostly the increase in price is due to local or federal taxes.
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New Cigarette Warning Labels
These are the proposed graphic health warnings for cigarette packages and advertisements as advised by the American FDA.
- WARNING: Cigarettes are addictive
- WARNING: Tobacco smoke can harm your children
- WARNING: Cigarettes cause fatal lung disease
- WARNING: Cigarettes cause cancer
- WARNING: Cigarettes cause strokes and heart disease
- WARNING: Smoking during pregnancy can harm your baby
- WARNING: Smoking can kill you
- WARNING: Tobacco smoke causes fatal lung disease in non-smokers
- WARNING: Quitting smoking now greatly reduces serious risks to your health
Time for Implementation
The new tobacco control act requires the FDA to issue their final regulations by June 22, 2011. It is a new act applicable for all cigarette brands in all American territories. Companies like Marlboro, Camel, Philip Morris, West and Pall Mall will feel the heat.
Cigarette Pack Graphics
Fifty percent of the front and back of each package of cigarettes sold will appear with these confronting graphics. Corpses, cancer patients and diseased lungs are the images the federal government plans for larger, graphic warnings on the labels. Some of these images are shocking
Foreign Cigarette Packaging
The US images might appear shocking, however they are nothing compared to images shown on cigarette packages abroad. In some of the European and South American images have a true shocking effect on the user. In these countries it is allowed to stage the setting for the image. A open heart surgery where the heart seems to be surrounded by cigarette, or an embryo foetus in an ashtray. European studies have shown that cigarette users have been reduced since the new packaging laws came into effect.
Cigarette Use in the USA
In the USA cigarette users have been reduced from 40 percent in 1970 to 20 percent in 2008. Costs of a pack of cigarettes has increased from $0.38 in 1970 to $5.72 in 2008. Mostly the increase in price is due to local or federal taxes.
Source: allvoices.com
