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What a combined health warning is A combined health warning is a pack warning that joins a photograph with text. The GOV.UK packaging checklist describes it in those terms and says that a cigarette pack must carry one al…

Where the term comes from The phrase "characterising flavour" appears in the Tobacco and Related Products Regulations, a UK statutory instrument. Its explanatory note says the regulations implement the EU Tobacco Product…

What standardised packaging means Standardised packaging is also called plain packaging. It is a set of legal rules that limits how tobacco products and their packs may look, so that features used for promotion are remov…

Questions such as "what is the nicotine content of this brand?" usually expect a single number. For cigarettes sold in the European Union and the United Kingdom there is no longer a number on the pack to point to, and th…