The law requiring a mandatory health warning graphic that takes up 85% of a cigarette packet, the largest anywhere, with the use of 10 different warning graphics stipulated, has now come into force in Thailand reports The Bangkok Post. The Supreme Administrative Court suspended the injunction issued by the Administrative Court to halt enforcement of the law at the request of tobacco firms. As a result, cigarettes sold in packets in Thailand must now have a graphic warning covering 85% of the package, and a carton must have 10 different graphics in the Thai language. The cigarette packet must also have information about the quit smoking hotline – tel 1600.
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The Bangkok Post confirms that a global survey of adult smokers conducted in 2011 showed there were 13 million Thai smokers, up half a million from the survey in 2009, and that about 47% of Thai men smoke tobacco. Read the full story here
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