Plain packaging and pictorial warning in Asia countries : where are we?
Worldwide, around 8 million people die yearly due to tobacco usage. Cigarette smoking is the most popular form of tobacco usage. Smoking has linked to many detrimental health effects among adults and adolescents. Recognising the burden of smoking, World Health Organization have implemented various t...
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| author | Kavita-Jetly, Azmawati Mohammed Nawi, Qistina Mohd Ghazali, Mohd Rizal Abdul Manaf, |
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| description | Worldwide, around 8 million people die yearly due to tobacco usage. Cigarette smoking is the most popular form of tobacco usage. Smoking has linked to many detrimental health effects among adults and adolescents. Recognising the burden of smoking, World Health Organization have implemented various tobacco control strategies under the Framework Convention of Tobacco Control and mPOWER. This includes implementation of plain packaging and pictorial warning. In Asia, only Thailand, Singapore, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Israel have implemented plain cigarette pack. However, some countries have made progress to implement plain cigarette pack. Although some countries have not implemented plain pack, implementation of larger pictorial warning serve as a pathway for implementation of plain packaging. Countries with pictorial warning on cigarette pack should ensure it covers at least 50% of pack. Timor Leste has the largest pictorial warning on cigarette pack in the world. In conclusion, only 5 countries in Asia have implemented plain pack and some countries in this region are yet to implement size of pictorial warning according to requirement of World Health Organization. All countries should target to implement standardized pack to denormalise tobacco usage. |
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| spelling | oai:generic.eprints.org:184172022-04-16T06:50:32Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/18417/ Plain packaging and pictorial warning in Asia countries : where are we? Kavita-Jetly, Azmawati Mohammed Nawi, Qistina Mohd Ghazali, Mohd Rizal Abdul Manaf, Worldwide, around 8 million people die yearly due to tobacco usage. Cigarette smoking is the most popular form of tobacco usage. Smoking has linked to many detrimental health effects among adults and adolescents. Recognising the burden of smoking, World Health Organization have implemented various tobacco control strategies under the Framework Convention of Tobacco Control and mPOWER. This includes implementation of plain packaging and pictorial warning. In Asia, only Thailand, Singapore, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Israel have implemented plain cigarette pack. However, some countries have made progress to implement plain cigarette pack. Although some countries have not implemented plain pack, implementation of larger pictorial warning serve as a pathway for implementation of plain packaging. Countries with pictorial warning on cigarette pack should ensure it covers at least 50% of pack. Timor Leste has the largest pictorial warning on cigarette pack in the world. In conclusion, only 5 countries in Asia have implemented plain pack and some countries in this region are yet to implement size of pictorial warning according to requirement of World Health Organization. All countries should target to implement standardized pack to denormalise tobacco usage. Pusat Perubatan Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2022 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/18417/1/374-Article%20Text-2138-1-10-20220228.pdf Kavita-Jetly, and Azmawati Mohammed Nawi, and Qistina Mohd Ghazali, and Mohd Rizal Abdul Manaf, (2022) Plain packaging and pictorial warning in Asia countries : where are we? International Journal of Public Health Research, 12 (1). pp. 1545-1555. ISSN 2232-0245 https://spaj.ukm.my/ijphr/index.php/ijphr/issue/view/30 |
| spellingShingle | Kavita-Jetly, Azmawati Mohammed Nawi, Qistina Mohd Ghazali, Mohd Rizal Abdul Manaf, Plain packaging and pictorial warning in Asia countries : where are we? |
| title | Plain packaging and pictorial warning in Asia countries : where are we? |
| title_full | Plain packaging and pictorial warning in Asia countries : where are we? |
| title_fullStr | Plain packaging and pictorial warning in Asia countries : where are we? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Plain packaging and pictorial warning in Asia countries : where are we? |
| title_short | Plain packaging and pictorial warning in Asia countries : where are we? |
| title_sort | plain packaging and pictorial warning in asia countries : where are we? |
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