Indiantelevision.com Team

(10 October 2007 3:00 pm)

NEW DELHI: Clearly aimed at making the warning more effective and pointed, the health warning on tobacco products has been changed to clearly depict the diseases this can cause instead of just a statutory warning.

All tobacco product packs including cigarettes, gutka and bidis produced and manufactured after 1 December 2007 will have to bear/depict specified pictorial health warnings on their products instead of the pictorial depiction of skull and cross bones and the pictorial representation of the dead body.

The revised pictorial health warning for the smoking forms of tobacco have photographs showing how it can cause cancer, and how smoke can kill babies. The non-smoking form of tobacco has photos depicting how this can lead to mouth cancer and painful death.