It's the gruesome packaging that's become mandatory for Australia's cigarettes, featuring diseased feet, sick babies and dying cancer sufferers - but is it also a future design classic?

Cigarette packs have a photo of a smoking-related disease covering 75 percent of the front of the package, and the rest is covered in a nondescript brown color instead of the company's design.

Plain Cigarette Packaging, by Jennifer Noon and Sarah Shaw, late of Loughborough University in the U.K., is a design concept that turns sexy cigarette packs into disgusting, fumbly, puke-brown boxes.

Here is the design distributed by the French health ... France is the second country to implement this branding-free cigarette packaging; Australia passed the same law in 2012, and Ireland and ...

the announcement of proposed legislation on plain packaging has prompted discussion among design and branding experts. What would such a move mean for the future of cigarette branding, and will ...

plain cigarette packs have three public health benefits: They make tobacco products less appealing, they make health warnings more prominent, and they limit tobacco companies’ use of design to ...

Almost 140 countries require picture health warnings to be displayed on cigarette packs, and 25 countries have adopted a more standardized “plain packaging” design that prohibits the use of ...

To better understand how young adults who smoke interpret packaging design elements of flavored cigarette products, the researchers analyzed several focus group discussions conducted in Mexico and ...

The Supreme Court declined Monday to hear a challenge from major tobacco companies to the Food and Drug Administration’s requirement that they place graphic health warnings on cigarette packages ...