Implications of Graphic Cigarette Warning Labels on Smoking Behavior: An International Perspective.

Implications of Graphic Cigarette Warning Labels on Smoking Behavior: An International Perspective.

J Cancer Prev. 2016 Mar;21(1):21-25

Authors: Jung M

Abstract
Graphic warning labels (GWLs) have been developed as a representative non-price policy to block such marketing. This study investigated the current state and effect of the global introduction of GWLs and examines the future tasks related to GWLs. We systematically reviewed literatures on GWL and a tobacco control strategy in the past fifteen years. The policy of enforcing GWLs has spread globally based on the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. GWLs are more effective than text warnings and are implemented in over 70 countries. The policy has showed the impact of GWLs as a preventive effect on adolescents' smoking, inducement of smoking cessation, reduction in the amount of tobacco smoked, and reduction in smoking rates. The success of an anti-smoking policy can manifests itself as an effect of individual policies, the rise of tobacco prices, and the introduction of GWLs.

PMID: 27051645 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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