Jump to full article: Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) (au), 2009-06-11
Intro: * Video: Health taskforce recommends plain cigarette packaging (Lateline)
* Video: Cigarette packaging decision may set world standard: expert (Lateline)
A Canadian doctor says the time is right for the Government to pursue the introduction of plain packaging for cigarettes.
A recommendation to begin selling cigarettes without advertising logos is expected to be handed to the Federal Government by the preventative health taskforce.
Moves towards implementing plain packaging in Canada were unsuccessful.
But the executive director of Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada, Cynthia Callard, says tobacco companies no longer have the same influence they had 10 years ago. . . .
She expects Australia could be one of the first countries in the world to bring in plain packaging for cigarettes.
"I think it would be one of the best contributions that the Australian Government could make to global health," she said.
"To establish plain packaging as a normal and effective measure so that other countries could pass it more easily."
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