煙草在線據雅虎新西蘭新聞編譯　　4月19日，新西蘭衛生部副部長Hon Tariana Turia宣布了政府關于推行煙草產品平裝的最新決定。

　　新西蘭內閣如今原則上同意推行與澳大利亞相一致的平裝制度，但這要受制于今年晚些時候開展的征詢公眾意見程序的結果。

　　Hon Tariana Turia女士說：“實行卷煙平裝具有很大潛力，實現到2050年時使新西蘭成為無煙國家的目標。”

　　“吸煙是造成新西蘭可預防死亡與疾病的單一最大原因。我們必須做好準備，向達到我們的目標而邁出勇敢的步伐。”

　　“我們已經禁止在所有的乳品店和其他商店公開展示卷煙和煙草，生效日期為今年的7月23日。煙草平裝是確保一旦煙草產品進入了吸煙者手中和家里，煙盒除了宣傳嚴肅的健康警語和戒煙信息之外，不宣傳任何別的信息的第二個步驟。”

　　Hon Tariana Turia女士說，公眾強烈贊成在阻止煙草公司利用包裝的設計與外觀促銷宣傳致命產品方面，效仿澳大利亞的做法。

　　“我相信，我們能夠制定出能滿足我們所有國際承諾，包括一項關于煙草控制的國際協議以及一系列多邊的、地區及雙邊貿易與投資協議的平裝制度。”

　　Hon Tariana Turia女士說：“但在做出最終決定前，我們會致力于繼續履行穩健的程序，制定這項政策。”

　　“征詢公眾意見的程序是一種審核證據，檢驗平裝這個案例，給公眾、衛生界及商務界一個表達自己意見的透明方式。”

　　關于是否推行煙草平裝立法的最終決定，要到對征詢公眾意見程序的結果進行考慮之后才會做出。

　　Turia女士說，新西蘭政府決心要減少吸煙引起的死亡、疾病，以及巨大的社會與經濟成本。

New Zealand: Moving towards plain packaging of tobacco products

April 19, 2012
Yahoo! New Zealand News

　　Associate Minister of Health, Hon Tariana Turia, has today announced Government's latest decisions on the introduction of 'plain packaging' for tobacco products.

　　Cabinet has now agreed in principle to introduce a plain packaging regime in alignment with Australia, but this is subject to the outcome of a public consultation process to be undertaken later this year.

　　Mrs Turia said "Plain packaging has the potential to make a significant to our goal of making New Zealand smokefree by 2025, alongside our other policies and programmes to discourage people from taking up smoking and helping smokers to quit."

　　"Smoking is the single biggest cause of preventable death and disease in New Zealand, and we must be prepared to take bold steps towards achieving our goal."

　　"We have banned the open display of cigarette and tobacco packs in all dairies and other shops with effect from 23 July this year. Plain packaging is the next step to ensure that once they are in the hands and homes of smokers, the packs don't promote anything other than our serious health warnings and quit messages."

　　Mrs Turia said there were strong arguments for following Australia in stopping tobacco companies from using the design and appearance of their packaging to promote their deadly products.

　　"I am confident that we can bring in a plain packaging regime that will meet all our international commitments, including a major global treaty on tobacco control as well as a range of multilateral, regional and bilateral trade and investment agreements."

　　"But we are committed to continuing a careful and robust process to develop the policy before we make final decisions," Mrs Turia said.

　　"The public consultation process is a transparent way of reviewing the evidence and testing the case for plain packaging, and giving the public, the health sector and business interests a chance to have their say."

　　Final decisions on whether to introduce plain packaging legislation will not be made until after the results of the consultation process have been taken into account.

　　Mrs Turia said the Government was determined to reduce the death, disease, and huge wider social and economic costs caused by smoking.