"The tobacco companies fought long and hard to delay and downsize the more effective graphic health warnings," said Professor Simon Chapman, from Action on Smoking and Health (ASH).
"Now, by stockpiling the old warnings, they're still delaying giving smokers the full picture about the diseases and disabilities caused by their products."
Warnings not on all cigarette packets - The Sydney Morning Herald
August 1, 2007
Smokers are easily able to buy packets of cigarettes that do not have compulsory graphic health warnings, a new survey shows.
An anti-smoking lobby group has found 70 per cent of shops it surveyed are still selling tobacco products with out-of-date text-only health warnings, 16 months after the federal government made graphic pictures compulsory.
They have called on the government to pass laws that would prevent shops stockpiling and selling old products.
"The tobacco companies fought long and hard to delay and downsize the more effective graphic health warnings," said Professor Simon Chapman, from Action on Smoking and Health (ASH).
"Now, by stockpiling the old warnings, they're still delaying giving smokers the full picture about the diseases and disabilities caused by their products."
All tobacco packets manufactured after March 2006 must have pictorial health warnings that alert smokers and potential smokers to diseases and disabilities that tobacco products cause, and how to get help with quitting.
But ASH was able to buy old packets of cigarettes, tobacco or cigars from 28 of the 40 Sydney shops it visited late last month.
All 10 tobacconists surveyed were selling old stock, along with eight of the 10 convenience stores.
Half the supermarkets and petrol stations also had old stock, with less evidence of stockpiling by big supermarket chains and petrol stations with high turnover.
One packet contained no health warning at all and appeared to have been illegally brought into Australia, a spokesman said.
He said the shops may well still be buying the old products from tobacco companies or wholesalers, as current laws only prevented companies from manufacturing packets without picture warnings, not selling them.
"They must have one hell of a stockpile," he said.
ASH chief executive Anne Jones said the government was warned about the dangers of stockpiling but had so far ignored advice that its legislation should include a cut-off date for the sale of old stock.
The lobby group has urged the government to end the stockpiling.
"This is a product that kills nearly 16,000 Australians a year and needs much tougher regulation to protect smokers - and potential smokers, who are mostly children," she said.
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald
August 1, 2007
Smokers are easily able to buy packets of cigarettes that do not have compulsory graphic health warnings, a new survey shows.
An anti-smoking lobby group has found 70 per cent of shops it surveyed are still selling tobacco products with out-of-date text-only health warnings, 16 months after the federal government made graphic pictures compulsory.
They have called on the government to pass laws that would prevent shops stockpiling and selling old products.
"The tobacco companies fought long and hard to delay and downsize the more effective graphic health warnings," said Professor Simon Chapman, from Action on Smoking and Health (ASH).
"Now, by stockpiling the old warnings, they're still delaying giving smokers the full picture about the diseases and disabilities caused by their products."
All tobacco packets manufactured after March 2006 must have pictorial health warnings that alert smokers and potential smokers to diseases and disabilities that tobacco products cause, and how to get help with quitting.
But ASH was able to buy old packets of cigarettes, tobacco or cigars from 28 of the 40 Sydney shops it visited late last month.
All 10 tobacconists surveyed were selling old stock, along with eight of the 10 convenience stores.
Half the supermarkets and petrol stations also had old stock, with less evidence of stockpiling by big supermarket chains and petrol stations with high turnover.
One packet contained no health warning at all and appeared to have been illegally brought into Australia, a spokesman said.
He said the shops may well still be buying the old products from tobacco companies or wholesalers, as current laws only prevented companies from manufacturing packets without picture warnings, not selling them.
"They must have one hell of a stockpile," he said.
ASH chief executive Anne Jones said the government was warned about the dangers of stockpiling but had so far ignored advice that its legislation should include a cut-off date for the sale of old stock.
The lobby group has urged the government to end the stockpiling.
"This is a product that kills nearly 16,000 Australians a year and needs much tougher regulation to protect smokers - and potential smokers, who are mostly children," she said.
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald
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