Retailers and wholesalers nationwide must sell cigarettes with packets showing newly designed warning labels from April 11, the Department of Disease Control (DDC) said.
Dr Khachornsak Kaewcharas, deputy director-general of the DDC, said cigarette packets must be sold with new text warnings and newly designed pictorial warnings showing graphic details of the unhealthy consequences of smoking. The new labels are in line with a Public Health Ministry announcement issued last year under the Tobacco Products Control Act.
"Violators who still sell cigarette packets with the old pictorial warnings are liable to a fine of no more than 40,000 baht," he said.
