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Health Warnings [Cigarette Packages]
URL: http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/educational/handouts/tobacco_advertising/health_warnings.cfm

Description:
Examples of health warnings required to be printed on cigarette packages from around the world. Countries discussed include Canada (which has required text and images since 2000), the U.S. (which has required warnings since 1984), Sweden ("the first country to implement rotating warnings on cigarette packages, starting in 1977"), the EU, Australia, Japan, and Chile. The information was last updated in 2002. In English and French. From the Media Awareness Network.

Publisher:
Media Awareness Network

LII Database Information:
Record 23362 created by Maria Brandt on 02/19/2007
Last modification on 02/19/2007
Last review by Charlotte Bagby on 09/01/2007
Published: 02/28/2007  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/23362