Thais to get bigger anti-smoking warnings on cigarette packs

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Thais to get bigger anti-smoking warnings on cigarette packs

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/thais-bigger-anti-smoking-warnings-cigarette-packs-192820933.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/swjPcwRfExp5WCHk_HHc6w--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/5646177ca65321c6f0cb1c8314a6b7b0f5c17787.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Thai anti-smoking campaigners throw a giant model of a cigarette off a balcony during a campaign for an upcoming 'Anti-smoking day' in Bangkok on May 29, 2009" align="left" title="Thai anti-smoking campaigners throw a giant model of a cigarette off a balcony during a campaign for an upcoming 'Anti-smoking day' in Bangkok on May 29, 2009" border="0" /></a>Thai health authorities on Friday said cigarette packets will carry warnings on the risks of smoking across 85 percent of their surface, in a blow to tobacco companies who had fiercely opposed the move. The warnings -- featuring gruesome photographs of smoking-related ailments -- will increase from 55 to 85 percent of the surface of both sides of every cigarette packet, according to the kingdom's Ministry of Public Health. Last year tobacco giant Philip Morris was among leading cigarette firms to challenge the ministry's move in the court, prompting the suspension of the plan.</p><br clear="all"/>

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