| Some countries also
impose legal requirements on the packaging of tobacco products.
For example in the countries of the European Union, Turkey,
Australia and South Africa, cigarette packs must be prominently
labeled with the health risks associated with smoking. Canada,
Australia, Thailand, Iceland and Brazil have also imposed labels
upon cigarette packs warning smokers of the effects, and they
include graphic images of the potential health effects of
smoking. Cards are also inserted into cigarette packs in Canada.
There are sixteen of them, and only one comes in a pack. They
explain different methods of quitting smoking. Also, in the
United Kingdom, there have been a number of graphic NHS
advertisements, one showing a cigarette filled with fatty
deposits, as if the cigarette is symbolising the artery of a
smoker.
Currently in Australia, almost 70% of the cigarette packet
(including 1/3 of the front, the whole back and both sides) are
covered in either graphic imagery or health factoids. These
warnings depict images of the effects of smoking (gangrene,
children in hospital from passive smoking and browned teeth),
name/number of chemicals and annual death rates. Television ads
accompany them, involving a doctor amputating a foot and smokers
struggling to breathe in hospital. Since then, the number of
smokers has been reduced by one quarter. Singapore similarly
requires cigarette manufacturers to print images of mouths, feet
and blood vessels adversely affected by smoking.
France has the additional requirement of listing on the side of
all packaging the percentages of tobacco present, compared to
the weight of the paper and additives present. For one U.S.
manufacturer of cigarettes sold in France, the side list
indicates only 85.0% is tobacco, 9.0% are the additives, and
paper constitutes another 6.0% of the total weight of a
cigarette. Filters are not part of the formula. The additives
are a syrup sprayed on the chopped tobacco leaf on the conveyor
belt and is a combination of the 599 additive ingredients as
submitted to Member of Congress Henry Waxman in a 50 page list
by the five major U.S. tobacco companies during his
Congressional Hearings on April 14, 1994.
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Tobacco smoking
Methods of smoking
Health effects
1.
Establishing a link between smoking and health effects
2. Health risks of smoking
2.1 Carcinogenicity
2.2 Effects on the heart
2.3 Smoker's attitudes
3. Passive smoking
4. Somatic and psychological effects
5. Mood and anxiety disorders
6. Health benefits of smoking
Effects of the habit and
industry on society
1. Effect on healthcare costs
2. Tobacco and other drugs
3. Advertising
4. Peer pressure
5. Parental smoking
6. Smoking in movies and television
7. The use of smoking to project an image
Religious views
on smoking Smoking cessation
Legal issues and
regulation
1. Age restrictions
2. Taxation
3. Restrictions on cigarette advertising
4. Package warnings
5. Smoking bans
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