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Tobacco Control and Smoking

The New Warnings


The new set of 14 graphic pictorial health warnings, comprising graphic images and explanatory messages, will cover 30 percent of the front and 90 percent of the back of cigarette packets.

Cigarette packets will also carry the Quitline logo and freephone number and other information about quitting smoking. A rotation system has been developed to optimise consumer learning and awareness of the health effects of smoking.

Once the new regulations come into force on 28 February 2008, retailers will have six months to sell existing cigarettes containing the old text warnings.

View the new warnings below:

Warning: the images are graphic in nature

Warning Image on frontImage on back
Smoking causes blindness

KA KĀPŌ KOE I TE MOMI HIKARETI
Image of the Smoking causes blindness cigarette packet design - front.
Image of the Smoking causes blindness cigarette packet design - back.
Smoking causes gangrene

KA PĀNGIA KOE I TE KIKOHUNGA I TE MOMI HIKARETI
Image of the Smoking causes gangrene cigarette packet design - front.
Image of the Smoking causes gangrene cigarette packet design - back.
Smoking causes mouth cancer

KA MATE PUKUPUKU Ō TE WAHA KOE I TE MOMI HIKARETI
Image of the Smoking causes mouth cancer cigarette packet design - front.
Image of the Smoking causes mouth cancer cigarette packet design - back.
You are not the only one smoking this cigarette

ĒHARA KO KOE ANAKE KEI TE MOMI I TĒNEI HIKARETI
Image of the You are not the only one cigarette packet design - front.
Image of the You are not the only one cigarette packet design - back.
Over 80% of lung cancers are caused by smoking

TE NUINGA O NGĀ MATE PUKUPUKU Ā PŪKAHUKAHU NĀ TE MOMI HIKARETI
Image of the Lung Cancer cigarette packet design - front.
Image of the Lung Cancer cigarette packet design - back.
Tobacco smoke is poisonous

HE PAIHANA TE AUAHI HIKĀ
Image of the Poison cigarette packet design - front.
Image of the Poison cigarette packet design - back.
Smoking causes heart attacks

KA MĀUIUI TŌU NGĀKAU I TE MOMI HIKARETI
Image of the Heart Attack cigarette packet design - front.
Image of the Heart Attack cigarette packet design - back.
Smoking can make you impotent

KA KAHAKORE TE URE I TE MOMI HIKARETI
Image of the Impotent cigarette packet design - front.
Image of the Impotent cigarette packet design - back.
Smoking is highly addictive

KA TINO WAREA TE TANGATA I TE MOMI HIKARETI
Image of the Addictive cigarette packet design - front.
Image of the Addictive cigarette packet design - back.
Smoking causes foul and offensive breath

KA HAUNGA, KA KEHAKEHA TŌU HĀ I TE MOMI HIKARETI
Image of the Bad Breath cigarette packet design - front.
Image of the Bad Breath cigarette packet design - back.
Your smoking can harm your kids

KOI PĀNGIA I TE MATE ŌU TAMARIKI I TŌU MOMI HIKARETI
Image of the Harmful to Kids cigarette packet design - front.
Image of the Harmful to Kids cigarette packet design - back.
Smoking causes serious lung diseases

HE TINO KINO TE MATE MIRU PUPUHI
Image of the Lung Disease cigarette packet design - front.
Image of the Lung Disease cigarette packet design - back.
Smoking more than doubles your risk of stroke

KA TINO KAHA RAWA AKE TŌU PĀNGIA ANA I TE MATE RORO IKURA I TE MOMI HIKARETI
Image of the Stroke cigarette packet design - front.
Image of the Stroke cigarette packet design - back.
Smoking blocks your arteries

KA AUKATIHIA ŌU IOIO TOTO I TE MOMI HIKARETI
Image of the Blocked Arteries cigarette packet design - front.
Image of the Blocked Arteries cigarette packet design - back.

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Page last updated: 27 February 2008


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