Warning Labels: Resources
FCTC Guidelines
- Guidelines for implementation of Article 11: Guidelines on packaging and labelling of tobacco products. FCTC Conference of the Parties.
Key Web Sites
- Tobacco Labelling Resource Centre – Provides information on the warning labels status around the world.
- Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada – Provides information on warning label status for various countries.
- Health Canada – some of the world’s first research on warning labels comes from Canada, the first country to implement pictorial warning labels.
- World Health Organization. World No Tobacco Day 2009 (WNTD). The 2009 theme of WNTD was “Tobacco Health Warnings.” Provides a range of health warning campaign materials.
Reports, Articles & Studies
- Tobacco Packaging and Labelling: Technical Guide – provides technical guidance to help governments with implementing effective packaging and labeling.
- Cigarette Package Health Warnings: International Status – provides a status report on how the health warning labels for various countries compare across the world.
- International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project (the ITC Project) - evaluates the behavioral impact of various health warnings around the world.
