Plain Packaging of Tobacco Products
Plain Packaging of Tobacco Products
 

DOCUMENTS & STUDIES

Proposals on plain packaging

UK Department of Health consultation papers, May 2008
Private Member's Bill, August 2009
Australia National Preventative Health Taskforce Report, September 2009
Australia Report of Senate Community Affairs References Committee December 1995 - excerpt
Canada Expert Panel Report - When Packages Can't Speak March 1995 - excerpt

Responses to proposals on plain packaging

IP Stakeholders

Anti-counterfeiting Group (ACG), September 2008
Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy (BASCAP), September 2008
Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy (BASCAP), February 2010
International Trademark Association (INTA), 2009
Law Society of New South Wales, Australia, December 2009
Washington Legal Foundation, September 2009

Businesses

economiesuisse, November 2009
US Chamber of Commerce, 2009
Coles Supermarkets (Australia), January 2009
UK National Federation of Retail Newsagents, August 2008

Governments

Australian Government response to Senate Community Affairs Committee, September 1997 - excerpt
Canadian Government response to House of Commons Standing Committee on Health regarding plain packaging, November 1994

Philip Morris International

Submission to UK DOH Consultation, September 2008
Submission to Australia National Health Preventative Taskforce Consultation, January 2009

Studies

Casey Mulligan (Comparing health warning label sizes and smoking prevalence rates in the US and Canada) December 2010
Casey Mulligan (Smoking behavior in Canada - before and after the 2000 tobacco warnings) May 2011
Deloitte (Illicit trade of tobacco in Australia), February 2011
Deloitte (Tobacco packaging regulation: An international assessment of the intended and unintended impacts), May 2011
Kleijnen (Systematic review of the effectiveness of an increase in the size of tobacco health warning labels on cigarette packs in reducing smoking) June 2011
LALIVE (Legal issues with plain packaging), July 2009
LECG (Review of studies on plain packaging), January 2010
LECG (The impact of plain packaging of cigarettes in Australia: a simulation exercise), February 2010
LECG (The impact of plain packaging of cigarettes in UK: a simulation exercise), November 2010
PriceWaterhouseCoopers (Australia's illegal tobacco market), February 2010
Richard Mizerski (Plain cigarette packaging as a remedy to reduce smoking) 2011
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Countries that have considered plain packaging

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Issues with plain packaging

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Views of retailers and the public

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BACKGROUND

Australia Australia
Canada Canada
UK United Kingdom
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ISSUES WITH PLAIN PACKAGING

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RETAILERS & CONSUMERS

What will plain packaging mean for them?

  • Confusion and inconvenience
  • Security problems
  • Loss of revenue to illicit trade
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IN THE NEWS

The controversy surrounding plain packaging has generated significant media coverage.

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Philip Morris International Management S.A. (PMIMSA) is opposed to legislation mandating plain packaging of tobacco products. We support effective regulation of tobacco based on the principle of harm reduction but plain packaging is an extreme measure unproven to have any effect in reducing smoking. We believe that adult smokers should be able to see, identify and select the brands they prefer.

We have developed this website in order to provide information on the issues surrounding plain packaging and to describe its likely effects on retailers, manufacturers, governments and consumers.

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