http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. The warning images Brussels proposes to include on tobacco packages in order to reduce consumption do not make the desired impact on smokers because they only find some of them really unpleasant. So, if the European Commission wants to improve the efficacy of its anti-smoking campaigns, it should produce a new set of images that make a stronger emotional impact. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-images-cigarette-strong-emotional-impact.html Health Tue, 21 May 2013 08:20:01 EST news288341636 Women say they get less satisfaction and less enjoyment from smoking cigarettes that come in plain, standardised packs - according to new research released today (Thursday). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-branding-cigarette-packets-stubs-appeal.html Health Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:43:14 EST news286094583 (HealthDay News) —The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a tobacco industry challenge to a controversial 2009 federal law that mandates graphic warning labels on cigarettes. The high court refused to hear the case, essentially upholding a lower court ruling in favor of the government's labeling changes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-supreme-court-cigarette.html Health Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:50:01 EST news285871017 Russian lawmakers on Tuesday passed on third and final reading a bill banning smoking in public places, a major pillar of a Kremlin drive to improve health in the nicotine-addicted country. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-russia-parliament-votes.html Addiction Tue, 12 Feb 2013 11:40:05 EST news279890765 Claims that replacing alluring designs on cigarette packs with a plain standardised look will increase illegal tobacco production are baseless - according to a new report published today (Friday) by an international expert. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-tobacco-industry-cigarette-packaging-nonsense.html Addiction Fri, 23 Nov 2012 08:20:01 EST news272880074 Australia slammed as a "sick joke" Wednesday new cigarette packs on sale as part of the national phase-in to plain packaging which play on drab branding and claim it's "what's on the inside that counts." http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-australia-slams-sick-cigarette.html Health Wed, 12 Sep 2012 04:20:02 EST news266641439 Russia on Monday unveiled a series of graphic images, including of a gangrenous foot and a still-born baby, that will be printed on cigarette packs as the country tries to trim its sky-high rates of smoking. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-russia-images-cigarette.html Addiction Mon, 03 Sep 2012 11:31:34 EST news265890684 A smoking ban in all closed public spaces, including coffee shops, restaurants and bars, went into force in Lebanon on Monday under new legislation that promises hefty fines for lawbreakers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-lebanon.html Health Mon, 03 Sep 2012 03:44:32 EST news265862659 (AP) — Australia's highest court on Wednesday upheld the world's toughest law on cigarette promotion, meaning tobacco companies will be prohibited from displaying their logos on cigarette packs that will instead feature images of cancer-riddled mouths, blinded eyeballs and sickly children. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-australian-court-oks-logo-cigarette.html Health Wed, 15 Aug 2012 02:33:54 EST news264216823 New research published online in the scientific journal Addiction shows that plain packaging (requiring cigarettes to be packaged in standard packages without attractive designs and imagery) may help to draw the attention of some adolescent smokers to the health warnings on the package. If so, this may in turn deter young smokers from continuing to smoke. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-plain-packaging-cigarettes-young-smokers.html Addiction Tue, 07 Aug 2012 19:00:02 EST news263568605 After decades of indifference, big businesses and the government are turning up the heat on smokers in South Korea, a nation with one of the developed world's highest male smoking rates. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-south-korean-smokers.html Addiction Wed, 23 May 2012 05:10:01 EST news256966421 Health warnings on cigarette packs can help ex-smokers stave off the urge to start smoking again, indicates research published online in Tobacco Control. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-cigarette-health-ex-smokers-stave-urge.html Addiction Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:30:02 EST news254592712 (AP) -- A federal appeals court is considering the constitutionality of requiring large graphic photos on cigarette packs to show that smoking can harm or kill smokers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-court-graphic-health-cigarettes.html Health Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:14:06 EST news253278254 (HealthDay) -- In the latest salvo in the battle over U.S. government plans to put graphic anti-smoking images on cigarette packs, a federal appeals court has upheld the proposed changes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-appeals-court-fda-graphic-images.html Health Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:50:01 EST news251385086 Global tobacco giant Philip Morris Tuesday stepped up its legal campaign against an Australian law banning logos and branding from cigarette packs, saying it had taken its case to the High Court. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-philip-morris-plain-australia.html Health Tue, 20 Dec 2011 05:20:03 EST news243579340 Four tobacco companies filed a lawsuit against the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Tuesday over what they say are unconstitutional requirements for warning labels on US cigarette packaging. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-tobacco-firms-sue-graphic-cigarette.html Health Wed, 17 Aug 2011 04:47:00 EST news232775194 Will graphic cigarette package warning labels significantly reduce demand? A new study suggests it will. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-graphic-demand-cigarettes.html Health Mon, 08 Aug 2011 15:01:06 EST news232034411