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Cigarette packet warnings, 2006

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Cigarette packet warnings, 2006

Associate Health Minister Damien O'Connor stands in front of examples of the new mandatory graphic warnings for cigarette packets. Such warnings had become progressively stronger since the first health warnings on cigarette packets in 1974. 

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Jock Phillips, Smoking – Smoking under attack: 1960–2000s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/38984/cigarette-packet-warnings-2006 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Jock Phillips, published 30 November 2012.