The Institute for Global Tobacco Control (IGTC) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health developed the Tobacco Pack Surveillance System (TPackSS) project to systematically document the variety of cigarette packages available in the 14 low- and middle-income countries with the greatest number of people who smoke.
The goal of TPackSS is to monitor whether required health warnings on tobacco packages are being implemented as intended, and to identify pack design features and marketing appeals that might violate or detract from country tobacco packaging requirements in these countries.
Browse over 6,600 packs collected from 14 low- and middle-income countries.
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A growing number of regions and countries have introduced innovative policy measures to counter the tobacco industry’s packaging design and marketing appeals. From single pack presentation in Uruguay to a menthol ban in Canadian provinces, we’ve archived images and data from special collections assessing the impact of tobacco packaging policy measures. Explore the specific projects and search the packs by brand family and keywords.