NEPAL has recently introduced new rules for cigarette packaging, with graphic pictures of the health effects of smoking required to cover 100% of the back and front of cigarette packs, up from 90% front and back two years ago.
This makes Nepal the world leader in graphic warning size.
As in many low and middle income countries, smoking in Nepal contributes to poverty as well as illness and death.
Australia requires 75% of the front and 90% of the back to carry the images and warnings, and in the Canadian Cancer Society's 2023 Cigarette Package Health Warnings: International Status Report, ranked 12th in the world based on the average of front and back graphic coverage.
New Australian laws coming into effect this year will require health promotion insert cards in cigarette packets and also a written health warning on the filter of every cigarette - a measure introduced in Canada last year.
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