Download - Global Tobacco Pictorial Warnings
Global Tobacco Pictorial Warnings
Madhukar Katiyar
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INDIA
Despite Government’s lethargy,Supreme Court cleared display of tobacco pictorial warnings :
Court records Government Undertaking that law will be implemented from May 31,2009
Even the pictorial sign, which was to be ‘skull and bones’ -- internationally understood to depict danger — had been diluted to `scorpion' which means nothing for the common man.
The Final Decision
• “the pictorial warning shall be limited to 40 per cent of the principal display area on the front panel of the package only”
• The specified health warning will be printed, pasted or affixed.
• For smoking forms of tobacco packages, the specified warnings are depiction of lungs.
• While for chewing and smokeless forms, the warning will be a scorpion.
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to judge for yourself
“Thousands die every day while politicians sit on
their hands”