Cigarette Packaging: Not Kool anymore

Marlboro Box Defaced in Australia Where Future Is Now - Bloomberg: "Well, the future of cigarette packs is on display in Australia, and it’s not that pretty: large, graphic images of gangrenous limbs and cancer victims, with brand names printed in a uniform font on a background legally defined as “drab dark brown.”
Tobacco products complying with the world’s first plain- packaging laws have started arriving in stores, as an Oct. 1 manufacturing ban on the country’s A$10 billion ($10 billion) tobacco industry comes into force, Bloomberg Businessweek reports in its Oct. 8 issue. While a U.S. court in August blocked the first change to that country’s tobacco health warnings in more than two decades, more stringent plain- packaging rules like Australia’s are already being examined in the U.K., New Zealand, Turkey, and the European Union."

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