Smokers will see messages like ‘toxic addiction,’ and ’causes 16 cancers’ printed on cigarette sticks.
Australia’s parliament has passed legislation designed to make the nation a “world leader in tobacco control.”
Dissuasive messages will also be put on individual cigarette sticks with messages such as “toxic addiction,” “causes 16 cancers,” and “shortens your life.”
These messages are in the process of testing but the government said Australia will be one of the “first countries in the world” to include this public health measure.
The federal Labor government said it now had the legislation in place to “underpin our renewed fight against tobacco” and prevent the next generation from the “devastating impacts of smoking.”
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