page_title: Tobacco packaging warning messages
section_title: Austria and Germany
hierarchical_section_title: Tobacco packaging warning messages / European Union / Austria and Germany
caption_attribution_description: English: Carton of German Marlboro cigarettes. Deutsch: Stange deutscher Marlboro Zigaretten.
context_page_description: Tobacco package warning messages are warning messages that appear on the packaging of cigarettes and other tobacco products concerning their health effects. They have been implemented in an effort to enhance the public's awareness of the harmful effects of smoking. In general, warnings used in different countries try to emphasize the same messages. Warnings for some countries are listed below. Such warnings have been required in tobacco advertising for many years, with the earliest mandatory warning labels implemented in Iceland in 1969. Implementing tobacco warning labels has been strongly opposed by the tobacco industry, most notably in Australia following the implementation of plain packaging laws.
  The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, adopted in 2003, requires such package warning messages to promote awareness against smoking.
  A 2009 review summarises that "There is clear evidence that tobacco package health warnings increase consumers' knowledge about the health consequences of tobacco use." The warning messages "contribute to changing consumers' attitudes towards tobacco use as well as changing consumers' behavior."
context_section_description: General warnings
  Rauchen fügt Ihnen und den Menschen in Ihrer Umgebung erheblichen Schaden zu. – Smoking severely harms you and the people around you.
  Additional warnings
  Raucher sterben früher – Smokers die sooner.
  Rauchen führt zur Verstopfung der Arterien und verursacht Herzinfarkte und Schlaganfälle. – Smoking leads to clogging of arteries and causes heart attacks and strokes.
  Rauchen verursacht tödlichen Lungenkrebs. – Smoking causes lethal lung cancer.
  Rauchen in der Schwangerschaft schadet Ihrem Kind – Smoking while pregnant harms your child.
  Schützen Sie Kinder – lassen Sie sie nicht Ihren Tabakrauch einatmen! – Protect children – don't let them inhale your tobacco smoke!
  Ihr Arzt oder Apotheker kann Ihnen dabei helfen, das Rauchen aufzugeben. – Your doctor or pharmacist can help you to give up smoking.
  Rauchen macht sehr schnell abhängig: Fangen Sie gar nicht erst an! – Smoking makes you addicted very fast: Don't start in the first place!
  Wer das Rauchen aufgibt, verringert das Risiko tödlicher Herz- und Lungenerkrankungen – Giving up smoking reduces the risk of fatal heart and lung diseases.
  Rauchen kann zu einem langsamen und schmerzhaften Tod führen – Smoking can lead to a slow and painful death.
  Rauchen kann zu Durchblutungsstörungen führen und verursacht Impotenz – Smoking can lead to blood circulation disorders and causes impotence.
  Rauchen lässt Ihre Haut altern – Smoking ages your skin.
  Rauchen kann die Spermatozoen schädigen und schränkt die Fruchtbarkeit ein – Smoking can damage the spermatozoa and decreases your fertility.
  Rauch enthält Benzol, Nitrosamine, Formaldehyd und Blausäure – Smoke contains benzene, nitrosamine, formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide.
caption: Carton of German cigarettes, complete with warning
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