In February, the World Health Organization’s European office declared: “Clear and prominent health warning labels on alcohol, which include a specific cancer warning, are a cornerstone of the right to health.”

In a report, it urged governments to introduce them to help reduce alcohol-related harm and raise awareness of the link between drinking and cancer.

Dr Gauden Galea, a WHO adviser, said in the report that policymakers should “resist all the pressure that will inevitably come from commercial actors” who claim such warnings do not work.

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    16 hours ago

    Warnings on tobacco have done nothing, rising prices have. Noone I know pays any attention to the actual cancer lung imagea on the packs.

    It’s there, but I don’t actually see it apart from maybe once a month.

    In case this is not common, that’s a 18 cig Marlboro Red pack and it costs 11.50EUR