Story highlights "It's extraordinarily encouraging," says public health advocate of ruling The high court published its decision, but not the opinion, which will be given at later date Tobacco firms say law will only boost illicit trade while impinging on intellectual property Tobacco kills nearly 6 million people a year, World Health Organization says In a decision announced Wednesday, Australias high court upheld the plain packaging act, which says that tobacco products must be in plain packaging without logos and bear graphic health warnings as of December 1
From 1980 to 2018, menthol encouraged an extra 10.1 million Americans to become smokers and was responsible for 378,000 extra premature deaths and a total of 3 million life-years lost, a recent study found A ban, opponents say, might create a new point of friction between African Americans and law enforcement, the board added
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Nonetheless, skin painting tests related to the XA Project showed that cancerous tumors were virtually eliminated when the catalyst was added to tobacco
