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Push to have graphic images depicting dangers of smoking
Jump to full article: Jamaica Observer (jm), 2009-05-12
Intro: THE Jamaica Coalition for Tobacco Control is pushing to have graphic images highlighting the dangers of smoking, displayed on cigarette packages by next January as a way of deterring Jamaicans from lighting up.
Under the World Health Organisation (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control treaty of which Jamaica is a signatory, tobacco manufacturers will be expected to have the graphics displayed on 50 per cent of the package.
The Jamaica Coalition for Tobacco Control through the Heart Foundation of Jamaica has received a grant from the Bloomberg Global Initiative to ensure the implementation of the rotating picture-based package warnings on tobacco products sold in four Caribbean countries - Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago.
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