All cigarettes from 12 September only in drab packaging
The Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance points out that tobacco companies have already started to comply with the Thai Standard Packaging Regulation for cigarettes two weeks before the deadline. The Control Association praises Thailand as the first country in the ASEAN region and Asia to introduce standardized tobacco packaging.
From 12 September 2019, with a 90-day phasing out of the old cigarette stocks by 12 December 2019, all cigarettes in Thailand must be sold in dreary brown packs of cigarette brands printed in a standardized font, size and color In addition, no brand colors and no logos may be seen.
The new standardized packaging complements Thailand's pictorial health warnings, which account for 85% of the front and back of packs and are currently the largest in the ASEAN region.
"We congratulate the Thai government on this important public health milestone and urge the Ministry of Health to closely monitor compliance and sanction tobacco companies that are not abiding by the new law," said Drs. Ulysses Dorotheo, executive director of the Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance (SEATCA).
According to the SEATCA, standardized standardized packaging should reduce the attractiveness of tobacco products and thus make tobacco packaging as a form of advertising superfluous. It also aims to increase the conspicuity and effectiveness of pictorial health warnings on the packs.
More importantly, it also reduces the early stages of tobacco consumption by restricting the tobacco industry's ability to market its products to young people. The existing tobacco consumers should be encouraged to stop smoking. Furthermore, the new packaging should help to prevent a relapse of former consumers.
Thailand joins the 15 other countries already using standardized tobacco packaging. These include: Australia, France, United Kingdom, Norway, Ireland, Hungary, New Zealand, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Canada, Uruguay, Slovenia, Belgium and Israel. At least 13 other countries are at different stages and are also likely to sooner or later introduce legislation to introduce standardized cigarette packaging.
Singapore will be the second ASEAN country to implement this key tobacco control measure. The Tobacco Regulation of 2019 requires that all tobacco products (including cigarettes, cigarillos, cigars, beedies, Ang Hoon and other tobacco products for home-baking) be fully compliant with standardized packaging from 1 July 2020.
"The implementation of this life-saving measure, which is included in the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, has already paved the way for neighboring ASEAN countries in Singapore and Thailand," said Dorotheo.
Sources: Lebensmittelzeitung, leckerbisschen.de, Sanook.com, thailandtip
seems like an infringement of freedom but tobacco is always a likely target for this. People are still going to smoke.
I remember when they changed the packaging to have the grotesque features on the packages and i suppose that had some level of impact for like a couple months... Then we just started making the bad teeth packet talk and you can't tell me that the placement of the mouth wasn't intentional :O
I am a smoker. And when you smoke you dont care about pictues. Evrybody knows that smoking is not good for the health. This pictures are to strong.
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