graphic warnings

Philippines: graphic warnings are coming

Philippines has finalized requirements so that graphic health information will appear at the top 30% of the front, and the top 60% of the back.  A separate law (which continues in force) requires a 30% text warning to appear on the front.  Thus total messages on the front would be 60% and 60% on the back. 

One of the 9 picture-based messages is on breast cancer.  Philippines is the first country known to require a breast cancer message on cigarette packages.  Congratulations on this important world precedent, as well as on the new requirements generally.

The picture is about the press conference where the Department of Health announced the change. 

Philippines: Congressmen got cash to oppose graphic warnings

A very interesting article.
 Source: ABS-CBN

Filipinos want graphic warnings on cigarette packs

An unpublished survey done by the Philippine College of Chest Physicians for the September-October period showed that over 90 percent of Filipino smokers surveyed want picture-based warnings on the cigarette packs, instead of the usual textual-based ones.
The study, said anti-smoking group Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Alliance, Philippines (FCAP), shows that even smokers know how effective picture-based warnings could be.

Philippines: A Petition for a New Law and Graphic Warnings

The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Alliance Philippines (FCAP) is gathering one million signatures to convince lawmakers to file the bill. Gruesome photos of health effects on cigarette packets are aimed at discouraging people from smoking.

Philip Morris and Japan Tobacco love Thais more than Filipinos

Thais have long been accustomed to seeing graphic health warnings on cigarette packs sold in their country.

What many may not realize is that Marlboro and Mild Seven packs sold in Thailand are made in the Philippines by Philip Morris International (PMI) and JT International (JTI) licensee Fortune Tobacco.

In the Philippines, Doctors sue Philip Morris

Doctors sued  Philip Morris in Makati City yesterday allegedly for violating a law ordering tobacco firms to put health warnings on the front panel of their cigarette packs.

“There is absolutely no excuse for the failure of Philip Morris to comply with the health-warning provision of the law as they had three full years to prepare for it,” said Jocelyn Jaro-Amposta, a resident of Imus, Cavite, and who runs a clinic in Muntinlupa City.