graphic warnings

Uruguay: look at this toddler smoking (on the front of the pack)

 It is on the front of the pack. The back below

Uruguay: Uruguay now leads the pack with graphic health warnings covering 80% of the cigarette pack: what about Africa?

Uruguay has a population of about 3,3 million people but they have been able to implement this drastic evolution: earlier the size of the warning (on the right) was already at 50%, now on the left it's 80%. The pictures are on both sides of the pack. Congratulations Uruguay!

Source: Eduardo Bianco via Rob Cunningham. Below a pack of the Fiesta brand with the new 80% warnings on the back and on the front.

Uruguay: New graphic warnings on 80% of the pack. CONGRATULATIONS!

Rob Cunningham writes (and we totally agree):  Congratulations to Uruguay which yesterday on September 1, 2009 finalized Ministerial Ordonnance 466/2009 to require a new set of six graphic warnings to cover 80% of the front and back of the package.  Uruguay will have the largest cigarette package warnings in the world.  The new graphic images will be required to appear on packages 180 days from the issuance of the Ordonnance, or March 1, 2010.  What Uruguay has done is a very important achievement.

Uruguay approves graphic warnings for cigarette packages

The Ministry of Public Health of Uruguay announced in November 2005 that in April 2006 pictograms (pdf) will be incorporated into tobacco packages, with messages about quitting smoking and about seconhand smoke. A spokesman for the ministry explained that pictograms will cover 50% of both principal sides of the package. Each side will carry a different pictogram.

The text of the warning is: Humanicide.
More than 4000 chemical substances, of which 50 cause cancer. Your air is mine too. Respect it.

See all the warnings from Uruguay at the GLK gallery.