| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
| 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 |
| 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 |
| 27 | 28 |
From The Statesman: In new Dehhli on July 11, to the disappointment of anti-smoking campaigners, the group of
ministers today failed to take a decision on the proposal to print
skull and crossbones on tobacco products to inform uneducated masses
about the harmful effects of smoking. The GoM deferred the final
decision for later this month.
Pictures of a corpse and mouth cancers will
be displayed on cigarette packets in India from June in a bid to shock
people into stopping smoking, health officials said on Tuesday.
Other packs will show a toddler with tubes running up his nostrils with the caption "Your smoking kills babies", rather than the milder, pictureless warning "Cigarette smoking is injurious to health" currently displayed.
Our friend Hemant Goswami informs us that once
again it has been proved that the tobacco lobby has a better control of the
Indian Health Ministry (like in many others places across the world)
than the tobacco control and public health organizations. In an unfortunate development, the
rules which made it mandatory to carry pictorial warnings covering 50% of the
tobacco product packages have been
postponed for an unknown time period.
Continue reading "In India Graphic Warnings Are Indefinitely Postponed" »
Recent Comments