U.K. Plans Plain Cigarette Packaging Starting in May 2016
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Cigarettes and hand-rolling tobacco will have to be sold in standardized packs in England starting in May next year, the U.K. government announced, bringing the country into line with practice in Australia.
Parliament will be asked to pass the relevant legislation before May’s general election, Public Health Minister Jane Ellison said in a statement late Wednesday.