CRITICS OF AUSTRALIA’S TOBACCO PLAIN PAPER PACKAGING WARN REFORM
December 1st, 2012
WHILE Australia's government has pushed forward aggressively in terms of tobacco control, with the world's first law prohibiting all brand imagery and promotional text on tobacco products' packaging, despite criticism at home and abroad.Paul Mazoudier, a former corporate lawyer in Sydney, chairman of several large Australian corporations and an avid smoker, was not impressed by his first box of plain-packaged cigarettes. His regular filter-free Camels are no longer available and all the other brands on sale now come in drab dark packaging. Also more than ...
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