From today (the 23rd), the warning pictures and phrases on cigarette packs are changed to be more powerful.
Cigarette pack warning pictures are changed every 24 months to prevent familiarity and increase the warning effect.
The Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Korea Institute for Health Promotion announced that the 4th cigarette pack warning pictures and warning phrases announced in June will be applied from today.
Among a total of 12 types of warning pictures, including 10 types of cigarettes and 2 types of e-cigarettes, 11 types, excluding one type of liquid e-cigarette, are changed this time.
We have strengthened the expression of health risks according to the characteristics of each subject.
This is a picture that expresses the damage of secondhand smoke.
A baby feeding a baby bottle full of cigarette butts.
The picture warning of premature death from smoking was a picture of a man in the picture of the portrait smoking a cigarette over the past two years.
The smoker's face was expressed as smoke, and it was changed to a picture overlapping with cigarette smoke.
Considering the distribution process, the changed cigarette packs are expected to be sold on the market from the end of January next year.