A decade on from plain packaging, what is the result?
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Cigarettes today are sold in drab olive-brown boxes, replete with yellow warning labels that shout “SMOKING KILLS” next to ugly photographs of gangrenous and rotting toes.
There’s a whole generation of younger people who haven’t seen them sold any other way in Australia.
Australia was the first country to introduce plain packaging rules.
But more than a decade ago, plain packaging was far from reality as tobacco companies and libertarians fought against plans by the Rudd and Gillard governments to introduce it, alongside a hike in tobacco excise, aimed at reducing the number of smokers.
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