Tobacco packaging warning messages

Cigarette packages will no longer be displayed in shops selling tobacco products and new regulations on their sales will be implemented, according to a statement by the Health Ministry.  

The statement also said cigarette brands will no longer be visible on packages according to the new regulation. 

BELGRADE - Scientists have found that smoking a pack a day of cigarettes can cause 150 damaging changes to a smoker's lung cells each year.

The findings come from a study of the devastating genetic damage, or mutations, caused by smoking in various organs in the body.

Many of us have probably wondered at some point why it is that some heavy smokers never suffer from any lung related diseases and live to a ripe old age, while people who have never touched a cigarette in their lives die of cancer. The enigma has been solved by scientists who conducted a study on 50,000 people and concluded that it has to do with ‘good genes’.

BELGRADE - One-third of Serbian adults are smokers, including as much as 13 percent of the young, while 63.4 percent of children are still exposed to environmental tobacco smoke in their homes, participants of the conference 'Twinning project: Improving tobacco control in the Republic of Serbia' said on Tuesday.