A JAMES Cook University study has found graphic images and health warnings on cigarette packets no longer deter smokers.
 

Pharmacy lecturer and PhD candidate, Aaron Drovandi, said the impact of the confronting messages, first featured on tobacco packaging 12 years ago, had worn off.
 

“So even though people are still looking at the pictures and messages, it’s not affecting their behaviour,” he said.
 

They think that portraying the negative health consequences of smoking has been done to death.”
 

Mr Drovandi has surveyed more than 900 people, including both smokers and nonsmokers, for his PhD research project, Perceptions of Australians on Tobacco Packaging and Health Warnings.


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