- Huge changes in cigarettes in Australia
- Stocker warnings on packages
Stocker warnings on packages and blunt sentences printed on individual cigarettes send unfiltered health reports to smokers.
Australia has become the second country in the world that introduces warnings to individual cigarettes after the leadership of Canada.
The compulsory changes to Tuesday's tobacco products include a phased ban on menthol in cigarettes, 10 graphic health warnings on packages and 10 inserts in health promotion in packs.
The updated images were important because smokers were used to seeing the current warnings, said Sarah Durkin of Cancer Council Victoria.
The new warnings also have harmful consequences of smoking that people may not be aware of, such as diabetes, erectile dysfunction, cervical cancer, DNA damage and the impact of second-hand smoke on the lung capacity of children.
“Graphic health warnings have long been effective in increasing knowledge about the damage of smoking, preventing smoking and encouraging people who smoke to quit,” said Prof. Durkin.
Health warnings for individual Australian cigarettes will contain sentences such as 'causes 16 cancers', 'damage to your lungs' and 'damage DNA'.
Experts believe that cigarettes with a health warning on the filter better convey the risks and damage because it does not disappear when the cigarette is burning.
Stocker warnings on packages and blunt sentences printed on individual cigarettes send unfiltered health reports to smokers (stock image)
Stop director Rachael Andersen said that the new warnings and inserts for health promotion would 'act as a discouragement for smoking and a bridge to services such as Quuitline and Quit.org.au'.
“There is no doubt that stopping smoking can be difficult, people always tell us,” she said.
Last week's federal budget showed that $ 6.9 billion had been wiped to tobacco projections until 2029, with about one in five smokers shifting to illegal cigarettes or vapen.
In response, $ 157 million will be pumped into federal health, crime and tax authorities for two years to strengthen enforcement and to target crime gangs.
In Victoria there have been more than 100 fire bombs for two years, because organized criminals National focus on the flowering and lucrative black market.
