{"id":1185,"date":"2015-07-21T05:03:31","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T05:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/?p=1185"},"modified":"2015-07-21T05:04:09","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T05:04:09","slug":"health-ministers-from-around-the-world-agree-plain-tobacco-packaging-priority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/2015\/07\/21\/health-ministers-from-around-the-world-agree-plain-tobacco-packaging-priority\/","title":{"rendered":"Health ministers from around the world agree plain tobacco packaging priority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"first\">In excellent news for public health and bad news for big tobacco, Yahoo! news reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"yui_3_9_1_1_1437454796845_643\" class=\"first\">Ministers from 10 countries gathered in Paris Monday to launch a common drive to introduce plain cigarette packaging with the aim of stubbing out high smoking rates among young people.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives from nations as far afield as New Zealand, Australia, South Africa and Uruguay issued a joint statement saying that &#8220;significant scientific proof justified &#8230; plain cigarette packaging&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The ministers said plain packaging had been shown to &#8220;reduce the attractiveness of the product for consumers, especially amongst women and young people&#8221; as well as increase the effectiveness of health warnings on packets.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_9_1_1_1437454796845_638\">Hosting the conference, French Health Minister Marisol Touraine said the aim was &#8220;a world without tobacco&#8221; and that &#8220;the generation that is born today should be a generation without tobacco&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Full story <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/plain-cigarette-packaging-pushed-global-conference-124340340.html#N3S4Qtn\">here<\/a>.<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In excellent news for public health and bad news for big tobacco, Yahoo! news reports: Ministers from 10 countries gathered in Paris Monday to launch a common drive to introduce plain cigarette packaging with the aim of stubbing out high smoking rates among young people. Representatives from nations as far afield as New Zealand, Australia, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/2015\/07\/21\/health-ministers-from-around-the-world-agree-plain-tobacco-packaging-priority\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6820],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plain-packaging"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}