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Antitobacco Activists Urge Graphic Cigarette Warnings  

Jump to full article: Jakarta Globe (id), 2009-06-07

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Antitobacco activists have urged the government to put pictorial health warnings on cigarette packs to discourage smokers and deter children.

“There has been a health warning on cigarette packaging, but it’s in the written form, small and thus ineffective,” Husna Zahir, from the Indonesian Consumer Foundation, said at a discussion held by the Tobacco Control Support Center.

“The existing warning on the packaging is not able to fight aggressive advertising and sponsorship by cigarette producers, particularly toward young people.”

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