Plain packaging rule of cigarette in australia

Australia plans to go plain.

 

The government of Australia has come up with a plan to ban all the logos and colors of the packets of cigarettes. The law will be enforced in the different cigarette manufacturing companies from July 2012, where they will have to substitute the packets of cigarettes with plain olive green packets. Australia loses about 1500 people annually due to smoking which makes it the highest mortality rate for a preventable disease. Therefore, the Australian government came up to the decision of implementing the law of banning the labels on a cigarette packet as the World Health Organization suggested. The government has also come up with a decision to increase 25% on purchasing cigarettes. However manufacturing companies are against this move as this will economically bring the company down as the purchaser would not care less about the brand if they all look the same.

Reflection:

I think that the Australian government has made a good move by banning the manufacturing logos from the packets of cigarettes and replacing it by plain green packets with just the harmful effects of smoking printed on it. Most teenagers, at least the ones that I know,  smoke because they think that it is "cool" to do so. They do not realize the harmful effects of smoking and the attractive packets of cigarettes just helps them ignore the effects more. Instead they go on talking about the different brands of cigarettes and how one is better than the other! Hence, the people will learn more about the effects of smoking if that is the only thing printed on the packets of cigarettes and increasing the price of the packets of cigarettes will also decrease the amount of smokers as most people, especially teenagers, do not have a lot of money to spend.

Vocabulary:

1.A: "This will be the most hard-line regime for cigarette packaging anywhere in the world."

    B: regime:  a mode or system of rule or government.

    C: The regime of Woodstock School enforces the students to not drink or smoke.

2. A: "The move, billed as a world-first, comes after recommendations were made by the World Health Organisation."

    B:recommendation: advice

    C: Woodstock recommends the students to bring thermals and woolen clothes for winter.

3.A:" It follows regulations on tobacco advertising which have helped cut smoking significantly."

   B: regulations: Law or rule prescribed by the authority.

   C: If a student studying in Woodstock School doesn’t follow its regulations, he or she might get suspended or worse expelled.