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Aussie cigarette law takes effect

(Agencies/China Daily) Updated: 2012-12-03 09:22

All brands must be sold in identical packets containing health warnings

A law forcing tobacco firms to sell cigarettes in plain packets came into effect in Australia on Saturday in an effort to strip any glamor from smoking and prevent young people from taking up the habit.

Aussie cigarette law takes effect

A bookshop supervisor holds packaged cigarettes in Sydney on Saturday. A new law that requires tobacco firms to sell cigarettes in plain packets covered with health warnings took effect on Saturday. [Photo/Agencies]

The new law, the first of its kind anywhere the world, came into force despite a vigorous legal challenge by big tobacco, which argued that the legislation infringed its intellectual property rights by banning trademarks.

All cigarettes will now have to be sold in identical, olive-brown packets bearing the same typeface and largely covered with graphic health warnings.

A cashier at a Sydney newsagent said many customers said they found the new packaging, which must feature graphic images such as a gangrenous foot, mouth cancer or a skeletal man dying of cancer, off-putting.

Sanjid Amatya said smokers were asking to pick and choose the images on their packets, with the photograph of gangrenous toes bothering many consumers, as well as one of a sick child affected by cigarette smoke.

"Some of them don't care what the picture is," Amatya said from the store in the suburb of Wynyard where he has worked for three years.

"But some say 'Why did they change the pictures? It's so awful'."

Another retailer, Anas Hasan, said the most preferred packs pictured a hand stubbing out a cigarette, while some smokers were buying cigarette cases so they did not have to look at the images.

"They hate it. I smoke and I hate it," he said of the new packaging as he opened the doors on the cigarette display case in his Coogee shop to reveal the new packs, which cannot be openly displayed.

"Poor Bryan, they call him," he said, referring to the photograph of the dying man, named on the pack as 34-year-old Bryan.

Anti-smoking campaigners have welcomed the new law, which stipulates that 75 percent of the front of packets must feature the graphic images.

Stafford Sanders from Action on Smoking and Health Australia said that research had suggested people would be put off by the packaging.

"It's likely to make people more aware of the health warnings," he said.

"And it will remove the potential for the packets to be used to mislead people. And it will de-glamorize the packet."

Sanders said some people had become quite upset and offended by the images.

"The images are supposed to be disturbing, to be confronting. They are supposed to have an effect," he said. "If the images stop one child from taking up smoking, hasn't it been worth you being offended by it?"

Smoker Louisa Brooks, 21, said she did not really notice the packets.

"I'm a stressed out university student," she said, after buying cigarettes which featured a picture of a sick infant in a hospital with an oxygen tube going into the baby's nose.

"I definitely am going to quit one day ... I don't actually want to quit now," she said.

The percentage of smokers in Australia has dropped from about 50 percent in the 1950s to 15 percent now, and the government is aiming to push it down to 10 percent by 2018.

With 80 percent of smokers starting before the age of 18, and 99 percent before they turn 26, health authorities hope the new packaging will have the biggest impact on young people.

Agence France-Presse

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