UN Proposes Plain Packaging Of Tobacco Products Across The World

United Nations proposes on World No Tobacco Day to use plain packaging of tobacco products to help reduce demand for such products that kills about six million people a year.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged all the governments across the world to initiate plain packaging of tobacco products to save lives.

He said use of tobacco products is one of the primary causes of preventable non0communicable diseases.

The plain packaging is laid out by the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control of WHO that entered into force in February 2005. It prohibits use of colors, logos, brand images and any other promotional information.

Meanwhile, the Canadian government has said public consultation will be considered in the matter. It will run until the end of August.

The top three largest cigarette companies in Canada are British American Tobacco PLC, Philip Morris International Inc. and Japan Tobacco Inc.

In 2012 Australia implemented the plain packaging and became the first country in the world to do so.

France has passed legislation and the law will come into effect from last month of this year.

Hungary and Ireland have passed the laws.

In the US the free-speech laws could make impossible to bring plain-packaging legislation.

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