The New Cigarettes Packs
Published on May 7, 2009 4:25 AM
There are a lot of people who smoke cigarettes. That’s why UK Department of Health declared that only plain cigarette packets with no branding or logos, with minimum pack sizes of 20 cigs will reduce the smokers’ number.
The new Department of Health consultation document "The Future of Tobacco Control", which coincides with World No Tobacco Day, aims to start a debate around further measures that would stop people smoking and prevent young people starting to smoke. The ideas and suggestions in the consultation include:
● removing branding and logos from all tobacco packaging;
● having a minimum pack size of 20 - to stop young people, who can only afford packs of 10, buying cigarettes;
● restricting access to cigarette vending machines by young people - whether by banning vending machines altogether or through systems that only allow adult purchase;
● restricting the display of tobacco products in shops which may include putting cigarettes under the counter; and
● banning the advertising of smoking paraphernalia, such as cigarette papers.
Statistics show that the take up of smoking in young people is lower than a decade ago, but over 200,000 of all under 16's start smoking each year. As a result they are 3 times more likely to die of cancer due to smoking than someone who starts in their mid-20s.
One cigarette package designer, John Digianni, said: "A cigarette package is unique because the consumer carries it around with him all day... it’s a part of a smoker's clothing, and when he saunters into a bar and plunks it down, he makes a statement about himself."
That’s why UK Department of Health decided to introduce a new cigarettes package.
