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. 2022 Sep;31(5):687-688.
doi: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2020-056433. Epub 2021 Apr 16.

Industry manipulation of pictorial health warning labels in Pakistan

Elizabeth Crespi  1 , Michael Iacobelli  2 , Kevin Welding  2 , Sejal Saraf  2 , Katherine Clegg Smith  2 , Joanna E Cohen  2
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Industry manipulation of pictorial health warning labels in Pakistan

Elizabeth Crespi et al. Tob Control. 2022 Sep.
No abstract available

Keywords: low/middle income country; packaging and labelling; public policy; surveillance and monitoring.

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Competing interests: None declared.

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Figure 1
Pakistan health warning labels. (A) Current government-mandated gangrenous foot health warning label (HWL); (B) former government-mandated throat cancer HWL; (C) former government-mandated mouth cancer HWL; (D) HWL that has been tinted to the color of the pack (blue); (E) HWL where the throat cancer has been completely removed; (F) HWL that has been darkened and cropped.
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