Australia is the first country to ban branding on cigarette packets
Australia has come a step closer to banning all branding on cigarettes.
The Senate has just passed a law requiring cigarettes be sold in plain packaging, together with images of people suffering from smoking-related illnesses.
The bill goes to the lower house next, but tobacco companies say they will continue to fight it, as it infringes their trademarks.
Duncan Kennedy reports from Sydney.
10 Nov 2011
- From the section Asia