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What comes after standardised packaging for tobacco? [Editorial] (2016)
Auteur(s) :
HOPKINSON, N. S.
Année
2016
Page(s) :
i2935
Sous-type de document :
Editorial
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Refs biblio. :
12
Domaine :
Tabac / Tobacco / e-cigarette
Discipline :
SAN (Santé publique / Public health)
Thésaurus géographique
ROYAUME-UNI
;
UNION EUROPEENNE
Thésaurus mots-clés
PAQUET NEUTRE
;
TABAC
;
INDUSTRIE DU TABAC
;
LEGISLATION
Résumé :
The industry should pay a levy to provide sustainable funding for tobacco control policies.
The tobacco industry is on course to kill around one billion people in the 21st century, with a global social burden costing an estimated $2.1tr a year. Smoking related disease remains the number one cause of preventable deaths in the UK. The implementation of regulations for standardised packaging of tobacco products on 20 May in the UK and France, with Ireland soon to follow, therefore represents an important step forward for public health. These "plain packs" will be a drab brown colour, with product branding restricted to the name as text in a standard font. The revised EU Tobacco Products Directive, which is being implemented at the same time, contains additional requirements such as minimum pack sizes, larger combined picture and text health warnings to cover 65% of the front and the back of packets, and prohibition of characterising flavours, including menthol, from 2020.
The tobacco industry is on course to kill around one billion people in the 21st century, with a global social burden costing an estimated $2.1tr a year. Smoking related disease remains the number one cause of preventable deaths in the UK. The implementation of regulations for standardised packaging of tobacco products on 20 May in the UK and France, with Ireland soon to follow, therefore represents an important step forward for public health. These "plain packs" will be a drab brown colour, with product branding restricted to the name as text in a standard font. The revised EU Tobacco Products Directive, which is being implemented at the same time, contains additional requirements such as minimum pack sizes, larger combined picture and text health warnings to cover 65% of the front and the back of packets, and prohibition of characterising flavours, including menthol, from 2020.
Affiliation :
NIHR Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK