Turkey, Lithuania, Hungary and the UK have some of the harshest restrictions on soft drinks, smoking and junk food. View on ...

Plain cigarette packaging may make the product less appealing and encourage more people to quit. As of December 1, 2012, all tobacco products sold in Australia come in plain brown packs with ...

Plain packaging for cigarettes seems to make tobacco less appealing and increase the urgency to quit smoking, suggest early findings. Plain packaging for cigarettes seems to make tobacco less ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) today released its report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic 2025 at the World Conference on ...

This week, the World Health Organization called on countries everywhere to step up the war on tobacco advertising and promotion by introducing plain, or standardized, packaging of tobacco products.

With global tobacco control efforts now protecting an estimated 6.1 billion people, the World Health Organisation, WH, in a ...

Selling cigarettes in drab, plain packaging that contains dire and very graphic health warnings appears to be successful in getting people to think about quitting, according to a study published ...

Meanwhile, other studies support the idea that plain packaging is less appealing to smokers. The researchers found no evidence the standard fag packs increased tobacco use. Cochrane lead author ...

Research by the anti-smoking charity Action on Smoking and Health found that in 2022 7% of 11- to 17-year-olds in Great Britain used e-cigarettes, up from 3.3% the year before. Plain packaging ...

CAPE TOWN - South Africa stands at a pivotal moment in tobacco regulation, as Parliament revisits the controversial Tobacco ...

A clause in the Bill bans the sale of single cigarettes, and if a person is found selling a ‘loose’ cigarette, they can be ...

Plain packaging for cigarettes seems to make tobacco less appealing and increase the urgency to quit smoking, suggest early findings from Australia, published in the online journal BMJ Open.