Smokers brace for grim warnings
November 18 2008 at 07:17AM
Smokers will soon be confronted with grim pictures of people with cancer and rotten teeth when they buy their cigarettes, according to Health Minister Barbara Hogan.
Opening the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) meeting on tobacco control in Durban on Monday, Hogan praised the National Council of Provinces for passing a bill last week that will allow pictorial warnings on cigarette packages.
“Pictorial warnings on tobacco products will assist those who cannot read to make informed decisions about smoking,” Hogan said.
About 600 delegates from 100 countries have come to South Africa to refine an international treaty, called the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
