Tobacco pack warnings: Vietnam has yet to get it right!

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Vietnam Tobacco Industry’s (VINATABA) reasons why Vietnam cannot have picture-based pack warnings.
Excerpts from VINATABA’s presentation at the Workshop on Development of New Health Warnings, July 3, 2006
• Most countries in the world are using text-only health warnings, not pictorial ones.
. We are a poor developing country with outdated production technology and uncontrollable cigarette smuggling.
• Printing pictorial health warnings will be costly for the tobacco industry.