Cigarettes: Neutral packaging still an option

摘要

Cigarette packets that look identical apart from the name of the brand in small characters and in standardised font: such is the measure recently adopted by Australia and which the European Commission is currently considering as part of the revision of Directive 2001/37/EC on tobacco products. Yet many member states, such as the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia and Sweden, are strongly opposed to such a move.