graphic warnings

Gar Mahood and Health Warnings

Gar Mahood speaks in Brussels about how the Canadian government was "convinced" to install big health warnings, eventually with pictures, on the cigarette packs. It took a lot of advocacy and lobbying.
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Cyber-rendez-vous with Markos Kyprianou

Q1. Mr Commissioner, our previous interview was more than a year ago (oct 15, 2005). Have you seen progress in 2006 in tobacco control at the EU level?

Markos Kyprianou: There has been a considerable progress in tobacco control over the last year.

Markos Kyprianou's about Graphic Warnings

This is the text of the speech given by the European Commissioner for Health at the inauguration of the Photo Exhibition about The Power of Communications Against Tobacco in Brussels, 31 January 2007.

It is titled: The Role of Pictorial Health Warnings in Europe's Tobacco Control Policy

Exhibit and seminar about graphic warnings in Brussels

"The Power of Communications Against Tobacco" is an exhibition and seminar being held in Brussels from 31 January to 2 February 2007 at the Bibliothèque Solvay.
The aim of the exhibition is to highlight the importance that better communications and powerful images can have in the fight against tobacco. In organising this event, we have the support of Jules Maaten, MEP and EP Rapporteur on the European legislation introducing large and optional pictorial warnings on tobacco products (the latter now being introduced in Belgium) and Markos Kyprianou, Commissioner for Health.
For information and registration contact Catherine St Laurent

Nota: Catherine St-Laurent is Consultant to Pfizer (www.pfizer.com), GSK (www.gsk.com) and Novartis (www.novartis.com) Burson-Marsteller
Tel: +32 499 20 44 61
[email protected]
Burson-Marsteller is the supporting agency for “The Power of Communications Against Tobacco”