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Govt to sanction larger pictorial health warning on cigarette packets

| | Apr 04, 2015, at 08:06 pm
Bengaluru, Apr 4 (IBNS) Preparing to sanction larger pictorial warning on cigarette packets, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked Health Minister JN Nadda to make it clear that the administration does not agree with a Parliamentary committee, which says there is no local evidence to prove that caner is caused by smoking.

Reports said plans for 85 per cent of a cigarette packet to carry a warning on the damage done by smoking were delayed this week, after the Parliamentary committee said it needs more time to discuss the proposal, which was meant to be enforced by April 1. 

 
A warning that covers 60-65 per cent of the packaging may be now be sanctioned by the government, reports said.
 
"We have put the order in abeyance as the Parliamentary committee wants to deliberate on some issues. We stand by our commitment to introduce new picture warnings," he said earlier this week.
 
Members of the Parliamentary committee say that hundreds of thousands of people will lose their livelihood if strict measures are introduced against the tobacco industry.

An estimated 9,00,000 Indians die every year from causes related to tobacco use while activists have been demanding greater campaign against smoking to contain the menace.

 

#Narendra Modi # tobacco warning

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