"Usually, a country gets a deadline by which they have to implement a law like this, and then businesses get a time period in which they adjust to the new rules." Von Foerster said that costs for making the new packaging starting in less than two months could be prohibitive for some members of his association, such as a local tobacco producer in Berlin with 120 employees
If and when the labels do hit, the images could go a long way towards continuing the decline in smoking rates across the country
While the tobacco industry succeeded in weakening the warning language, the sector saw the labels as beneficial, to some degree, because smokers were now informed their health could suffer because of cigarette use, potentially reducing the risk of lawsuits from smokers who developed health problems
First, the wisdom: Many Americans wonder how Europeans can drink and smoke, night and day, and still be healthy