page_title: Tobacco packaging warning messages
section_title: France
hierarchical_section_title: Tobacco packaging warning messages / European Union / France
caption_attribution_description: English: Warning on the French Cigarettes Pack
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: Front of packaging (covers 30% of surface)
  or
  Rear (covers 40% of surface, similar design)
  Les fumeurs meurent prématurément. (Smokers die prematurely.)
  Fumer bouche les artères et provoque des crises cardiaques et des attaques cérébrales. (Smoking clogs arteries and causes heart attacks and strokes.)
  Fumer provoque le cancer mortel du poumon. (Smoking causes fatal lung cancer.)
  Fumer pendant la grossesse nuit à la santé de votre enfant. (Smoking during pregnancy harms your child's health.)
  Protégez les enfants: ne leur faites pas respirer votre fumée. (Protect your children: don't make them breathe your smoke.)
  Votre médecin ou votre pharmacien peuvent vous aider à arrêter de fumer. (Your doctor or pharmacist can help you quit smoking.)
  Fumer crée une forte dépendance, ne commencez pas. (Smoking is highly addictive, don't start.)
  Arrêter de fumer réduit les risques de maladies cardiaques et pulmonaires mortelles. (Quitting smoking reduces the risk of fatal heart and lung diseases.)
  Fumer peut entraîner une mort lente et douloureuse. (Smoking can result in a slow and painful death.)
  Faites-vous aider pour arrêter de fumer: téléphonez au 0 825 309 310 (0,15 euro/min) (Help yourself quit smoking: call 0 825 309 310)
  Fumer peut diminuer l'afflux sanguin et provoque l'impuissance. (Smoking can cause low blood pressure and impotence.)
  Fumer peut nuire aux spermatozoïdes et réduit la fertilité. (Smoking damages sperm and reduces fertility.)
  La fumée contient du benzène, des nitrosamines, du formaldéhyde et du cyanure d'hydrogène. (Cigarette smoke contains benzene, nitrosamines, formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide.)
  Left or right side of packaging
  Components percentages (15% of surface, small prints): Tobacco – Cigarette paper – Flavor and texture agents
  ISO yields of toxics in mg/cigarette (in prominent black on white square and bold letters): Tar – Nicotin – Carbon monoxide
  Other side of packaging
  Country of manufacturing, name of manufacturer, quantity
  Product identifier (EAN-7 bar code)
  Other characteristics
  Small print: "Vente en France 01" (sales in France)
  Recyclable logo (for the packaging)
  Words forbidden in the displayed product name: light, ultra-light, légere, or any indication that may indicate that this is a minor drug with low impact... (These branding words have been replaced by various colour names)
caption: Warning on the French cigarette packaging
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