烟草在线据ABC新闻报道编译　　澳大利亚医学协会说，澳大利亚联邦政府应该迅速行动起来，阻止一家公司生产隐藏卷烟烟盒上的健康警语的贴纸。

　　黄金海岸的一家公司正在生产各种各样的贴纸，隐藏卷烟的橄榄绿色平装，以及烟草产品上的图片健康警语。

　　澳大利亚联邦卫生部长塔尼亚·普里贝斯已经要求律师对这些贴纸是否违反了12月1日开始生效的平装烟法律进行调查。

　　澳大利亚医学协会主席史蒂文·汉布尔顿说，必须阻止这些贴纸。

　　他说：“那些图片健康警语之所以印制在那里是有非常重要的原因的。已经有100多万澳大利亚人因为吸烟而失去生命，但我认为，联邦政府应该迅速行动起来，禁止那些将健康警语覆盖了的产品。”

　　“一个企业为了赚钱而出售与一种致命商品有关的物品，将这种物品像制造商所希望的那样使用，这在道德上是错误的。”

　　汉布尔顿博士说，政府必须对可能被用于绕开平装烟草法律的任何方法进行研究。

　　他说：“这些健康警语之所以印制在包装上，有非常合理的理由。我们认为，这些警语将会降低澳大利亚的吸烟率，因此，我们不希望看到任何会实际绕开这项法律的情况。”

　　贴纸的发明者阿诺东尼·杜·罗萨里奥说，平装烟法律这一步有点过头了。

　　他说：“显然，我们经营是要赚钱，但本质上，我认为，澳大利亚人要有选择的自由，这才是重要的。”

Australia: Push to Ban Stickers Covering Cigarette Warnings

　　The Australian Medical Association (AMA) says the Federal Government should act quickly to stop a company making stickers to hide health warnings on cigarette boxes.

　　A Gold Coast company is making a variety of stickers to hide the olive green plain packaging and graphic warnings on tobacco products.

　　Federal Health Minister Tanya Plibersek has asked lawyers to investigate whether the stickers breach the plain packaging laws, which came into effect less than a fortnight ago.

　　AMA president Steve Hambleton says the stickers need to be stopped.

　　"Those graphic health warnings are there for a very important reason. Over a million Australians have died because they smoked, but I think covering up those health warnings, I think the Federal Government is going to act very quickly and ban those products," he said.

　　"It is just morally wrong for a business to profit from selling items in relation to goods that are lethal when you use them as the manufacturer intended."

　　Dr Hambleton says the Government needs to look at any methods that may be used to circumvent the plain packaging legislation.

　　"It's there for a very good reason. We believe it will decrease smoking rates in Australia by another notch so we don't want to see anything that can actually get around this legislation," he said.

　　The inventor of the stickers, Anothony Do Rozario, says the plain packaging laws are a step too far.

　　"Obviously we're in business to make money, but essentially, I think it's important for Australians to have freedom of choice," he said. Enditem