Plain tobacco packaging that Australia's legal fees amounted to $39 million with Patrick saying that this showed the dangers of investor-state dispute settlement clauses allowing companies to sue governments in the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The World Health Organization applauded Australia’s law on plain packaging noting that “the legislation sets a new global standard for the control of a product that accounts for nearly 6 million deaths each year". The Cancer Council of Australia hailed the passing of the legislation, stating, "Documents obtained from the tobacco industry show how much the tobacco companies rely on pack design to attract new smokers...You only have to look
Tobacco packaging warning messages TO HEALTH" in English. Paan, gutkha and tobacco packets carried the warning "TOBACCO IS INJURIOUS TO HEALTH" in Hindi and English. The law later changed. According to the new law, cigarette packets were required to carry pictorial warnings of a skull or scorpion along with the text "SMOKING KILLS" and "TOBACCO CAUSES MOUTH CANCER" in both Hindi and English. "The Cigarette and Other Tobacco Products (Packaging and Labelling) Rules 2008" requiring graphic health warnings came into force on 31 May 2008. Under the law, all tobacco products were required to display graphic pictures, such as pictures of diseased lungs, and