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  • Australian court OKs logo ban on cigarette packs

    Australia's highest court upheld the world's toughest law on cigarette promotion Wednesday, prohibiting tobacco company logos on cigarette packs that will instead show cancer-riddled mouths, blinded eyeballs and sickly children.


  • An image provided by Australia's Minister for Health and Ageing shows cigarette packaging stripped of all logos and replaced with graphic images that tobacco companies in Australia will be forced to use. (AP Photo/Australian Minister for Health and Ageing)

    Australian court OKs logo ban on cigarette packs

    Australia's highest court upheld the world's toughest law on cigarette promotion Wednesday, prohibiting tobacco company logos on cigarette packs that will instead show cancer-riddled mouths, blinded eyeballs and sickly children.


  • FILE - In this undated image provided by the Minister for Health and Ageing is proposed cigarette packaging stripped of all logos and replaced with graphic images that tobacco companies in Australia will be forced to use. Australia's highest court upheld the world's toughest law on cigarette promotion on Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012, despite protests from tobacco companies that argued the value of their trademarks will be destroyed under new rules that will strip all logos from cigarette packs. (AP Photo/Minister for Health and Ageing, File) EDITORIAL USE ONLY

    Australia’s top court OKs grisly pictures on cigarette labels

    Australia's highest court upheld the world's toughest law on cigarette promotion Wednesday, prohibiting tobacco company logos on cigarette packs that will instead show cancer-riddled mouths, blinded eyeballs and sickly children.


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