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Tobacco Control and Smoking
Factsheets
Factsheets providing background information on each of the new graphic warnings are provided below.
Warning: the images are graphic in nature.
Overview
Graphic health warnings on tobacco packages - Overview
Brochure
Graphic health warnings - Brochure (PDF, 329 KB)
Hard copies of the brochures are available by calling (04) 496 2277 or emailing
moh@wickliffe.co.nz
(quoting HP4561).
Graphic warnings introduced in 2008
Smoking causes blindness
Smoking causes gangrene
Smoking causes mouth cancer
You are not the only one smoking this cigarette
Over 80% of lung cancers are caused by smoking
Tobacco smoke is poisonous
Smoking causes heart attacks
Graphic warnings introduced in 2009
Smoking can make you impotent
Smoking is highly addictive
Smoking causes foul and offensive breath
Your smoking can harm your kids
Smoking causes serious lung diseases
Smoking more than doubles your risk of stroke
Smoking blocks your arteries
Page last updated: 1 April 2008