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What Australia does that other countries don't do in terms of packaging is they completely block out the branding of a pack. So like in Thailand for instance you'll have a regular Marlboro pack with a picture on the back of diseased lungs or whatever. In Australia they block out the designs of packs branding so they're just dark brown with health warnings and in white text somewhere they'll say Marlboro lights or whatever they are.

The point of the gory death warnings is to stop new smokers from starting, to making smoking as unattractive as possible.

Smokers become desensitised to the warnings really quickly from looking at them every time they smoke.

It does not work.

It does work. https://www.who.int/fctc/text_download/en/ Try to gather evidence to pursue your claims

Yeah they are pretty useless. Maybe I shouldn't have mentioned it as I got downvoted. But the other points might make some difference.