Plain packaging of tobacco products – what it is and why it is needed

By Action on Smoking & Health.

On 13 June an article in the FT headlined ‘Philip Morris hits at UK over plain packs’ highlighted two reports commissioned by the company - the first saying that the DH evidence review was unreliable and the second that plain packs would make counterfeiting easier and lead to an increase in tobacco smuggling.



There is no hard evidence in either report to justify