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The ministry said it would pass a revised bill by early next year following related negotiations with the Finance Ministry

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Why was it conducted

In September 2003, the EU's then-health and consumer-protection commissioner, Britain's David Byrne, said he was convinced that "an image really is worth more than a thousand words," and called for "innovative ways to illustrate the reality that half of smokers will die from illnesses related to their addiction." He argued that countries that were already using the images "had shown that this was an effective way to warn people." Eight years on, Byrne's call for innovation seems to have gone unheeded, say the advertising experts