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Cigarette Packaging Through The Ages, As Plain Packets Are Introduced (PICTURES)

LOOK: What Cigarette Packets Used To Be Like
The Huffington Post UK

If the government does, after all, bring in plain packaging for cigarettes, it will mean an abrupt end to the evolution of fag packets over the years.

From the colourful eye-catching adverts of the 1920s, to the health warnings first introduced in 1971, the tussle between tobacco giants and health ministers has raged for years.

As plain packets loom, today's branded wrappings may soon join these collector's items on eBay:

Cigarette Packaging
This Virgin Leaf packet reportedly dates back to the 1900s(01 of06)
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A pack of Redford's, from 1910(02 of06)
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Archer's Medium, 1912(03 of06)
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George Jackson, from the 1920s(04 of06)
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1920s-1930s Players Navy Cut(05 of06)
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Packets now carry prominent health warnings..(06 of06)
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But campaigners say it doesn't go far enough. (credit:PA)
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