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Plain tobacco packaging, also known as generic, standardised or homogeneous packaging, refers to packaging that requires the removal of all branding (colours, imagery, corporate logos and trademarks), permitting manufacturers to print only the brand name in a mandated size, font and place on the pack, in addition to the health warnings and any other legally mandated information such as toxic constituents and tax-paid stamps. The appearance of all tobacco packs is standardised, including the colour of the pack. Australia is the only country that currently mandates plain tobacco packaging, as a result of laws that were enacted in 2012. Plain tobacco packaging is currently being introduced in the United Kingdom and Ireland. All cigarette packets manufactured for these countries must be plain packs from May 2016 and it will be illegal to sell non-plain packs in these countries from May 2017. ==History== In 1989, the New Zealand Department of Health’s Toxic Substances Board first recommended that cigarettes be sold only in white packs with black text and no colours or logos. Public health officials in Canada developed proposals for plain packaging of tobacco products in the 1990s. A parliamentary committee reviewed the evidence and concluded that plain packaging could be a “reasonable step in the overall strategy to reduce tobacco consumption”. The committee recommended that legislation be implemented pending the outcome of government-sponsored research on the likely effectiveness of plain packs. However following tobacco industry lobbying and changes in government ministers the proposal was dropped. Australia, with the enactment of the Tobacco Plain Packaging Act in 2011,〔 became the first country in the world to require tobacco products to be sold in plain packaging. Products manufactured since October 2012, and all on sale since 1 December 2012 must be plain packaged. In June 2014 Ireland announced it was proposing legislation that would make it the first country in the European Union and the second in the world to introduce plain packaging. Ireland's minister for health published details of the government's proposed ''Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014'' on 10 June 2014. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Plain tobacco packaging」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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