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Intro: Mental health campaigners say that papers used to make hand-rolled cigarettes should carry printed warnings about the dangers of cannabis.
Rethink's efforts have been directed at Imperial Tobacco, which makes the UK's best selling brand, Rizla.
Cannabis has been linked to mental health problems, and Rethink said the messages could help target users. . . .
While both cigarette packets and the packaging for loose rolling tobacco have carried prominent public health warnings for some years, these rules do not currently cover cigarette rolling papers.
However, Jane Harris, Rethink's head of campaigns, accused the makers of Rizla of "being irresponsible". . . .
Amanda Sandford, from the group Action on Smoking and Health, said that she wanted to see health warnings about smoking tobacco on rolling paper packets.
She said: "There are warnings on loose tobacco packets, but once they are opened, we think these don't have the same impact as the messages on cigarette packets."
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