All tobacco products must have photographic health warning
The Environmental Health Directorate has called on tobacco retailers to ensure that all tobacco products - and not just cigarette packets - carry photographic health warnings by October 27.
The directorate said that following the coming into force of Legal Notice 302 on cigarette packets, all other tobacco products, including water pipe tobacco commonly known as Shisha, are to have photographic health warnings by October 27.
Tobacco products, other than cigarettes, can have health warnings affixed as stickers, provided that such stickers cannot be removed.
Further information is available the Health Inspectorate Services on telephone number 21337333 or by email mhi@gov.mt
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Victor Pulis
Sep 19th 2011, 18:34
I hear they're preparing a gigantic poster to hang on the Marsa power station's chimney now that it has been identified as the source of the black dust!
Peter Seebohm
Sep 19th 2011, 19:07
Perfect comment. SIR
Bernard Storace
Sep 19th 2011, 16:42
We shall soon see the reintroduction of handsome cigarette cases.............
Peter Seebohm
Sep 19th 2011, 15:47
Go a stup further.
Not only Tabaqccos should be branded.
Alcohol for example
Dark painted cars which run without light in the night
Wappons
They all should show the consequences by pictures.
And so on.
Mr Karl Consiglio
Sep 19th 2011, 13:05
Picture makes no difference to me
Mr Aaron Vella
Sep 19th 2011, 17:57
Yeah, cancer does.
Mr Karl Consiglio
Sep 20th 2011, 00:12
So does growing old
Maria Muscat
Sep 20th 2011, 07:46
Its is true the picture does not make a difference, the human mind is very capable of ignoring what is directly in front of them ...... but exorbiant tax rates on tobaccos making them virtually unaffordable would make a big difference.....plus these taxes can then be used to cover the health care bill for when inevitably the smoker contracts one type of cancer or another, instead of the tax payer who chooses not to inflict harm on themselves and then expect the rest of us to foot the bill.....our taxes could be used in better ways