Policy Reports

Taxation	Bangladesh Taxation
Warning Labels

The ITC Project Tobacco Warning Labels report was prepared for World No Tobacco Day, an annual event held on May 31, 2009, whose theme this year is pictorial warning labels. The report concludes from longitudinal studies of text and pictorial warnings across many countries that graphic pictorial warnings are more effective than text-only warnings. Specifically, graphic pictorial warnings: (a) are more noticeable and salient than text warnings, (b) enhance thoughts about the harms of smoking to a greater degree, (c) are stronger in their impact on motivating quitting among smokers. In addition, these reactions to pictorial warnings are associated with increased intentions to quit and to actual quit attempts. The ITC Project also recently conducted a large-scale experiment in China demonstrating that China's recent change from U.S.-style warnings (on the side of the pack) to a limited text-only warning on the front and back of 30% was rated by adult smokers, adult non-smokers, and youth alike as being much less effective than more prominent and harder hitting text warnings, which in turn were rated by those groups as being much less effective than the same text warnings accompanied by graphic imagery. The findings provide compelling evidence of the effectiveness of pictorial warnings and support the case for strong implementation of the FCTC Article 11 Guidelines which recommend pictorial warnings on at least 50% of the package.

Tobacco Labelling Resource

This website was created by Dr. David Hammond, Associate Professor in the Dept. of Health Studies and Gerontology at the University of Waterloo, to help promote effective, evidence-based packaging and labelling policies in support of Article 11 of the FCTC. The website was developed with the support of the Framework Convention Alliance and the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease.

Country National Reports

Bangladesh National Report	English
France National Report	English	French	Appendix A: Frequency Tables (English only)
Germany National Report	English
Mauritius National Report	English
Netherlands National Report	English

Country Summaries

Bangladesh summary	English
Brazil summary	English	Portuguese
Germany summary	English		Appendix A: Germany Frequency Tables (English only)
Mexico summary	English
Netherlands summary	English		Appendix A: Netherlands Frequency Tables (English only)
China summary	English	Chinese	Appendix A: China Frequency Tables (English only)
France summary	English	French	Appendix A: France Frequency Tables (English only)
Thailand summary	English		Appendix A: Thailand Frequency Tables (English only)
Uruguay summary	English

List of ITC publications.

List of past conference presentations.

For Technical reports, look in the relevant Projects by Country folder.