Text and Graphic Warnings on Cigarette Packages
Findings from the International Tobacco Control Four Country Study
ITC TTURC research shows that large, comprehensive warnings on cigarette packages are more likely to be noticed and rated as effective by smokers. Changes in health warnings are also associated with increased effectiveness. Health warnings on U.S. packages, which were last updated in 1984, were associated with the least effectiveness. Findings were published in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine this March (Am J Prev Med 2007;32(3):202-209).
Revising the machine smoking regime for cigarette emissions: implications for tobacco control policy
Read the abstract Current international standard for generating cigarette emissions the ISO machine smoking regime is widely acknowledged to be inappropriate for purposes of setting regulatory restrictions. An ITC study key shows that questions need to be addressed before any smoking regime should be used to set regulatory limits on smoke emissions. In the meantime, regulators should remove quantitative emission values from cigarette packages and more work should be done on alternative machine smoking methods.