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Australian fury over kangaroos on cigarette packaging
Winfield puts kangaroo image on cigarettes in France after Australia moves to force tobacco companies to sell plain packetsAustralia’s government has lambasted British and American Tobacco for using the image of a kangaroo on packets of cigarettes sold in Europe, ramping up hostilities ahead of a legal battle over plain-packaging laws. The attorney general, Nicola Roxon, who as health minister led the drive to introduce laws forcing tobacco products to be sold in plain, olive green packs, said on Friday the use of the most famous Australian symbol to sell cigarettes was outrageous.
published date:Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:14:11 GMT