Experts say tobacco control program "smoky" (3)

With ugly images of bleeding brains, blackened teeth and rotten lungs, cigarette packs can show the harm of smoking, experts say.

In an annual tobacco control report released on Tuesday, Thinktank urged making the graphic warnings a compulsory part of cigarette packaging.

Gregory Yingnien Tsang, a renowned tobacco control activist, said the program also failed to increase excise duties levied on cigarettes, another method that has proved effective in reducing smoking.

According to Thinktank's annual report, excise duties account for 65 to 70 percent of the retail sale price for cigarettes in other countries, while the share in China is only 40 percent.

It is widely believed that higher excise duties will help reduce sales of cigarettes, and therefore force smokers to quit or smoke less frequently.

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