The Union health ministry has cleared two new health warning images that every tobacco ... the provisions of the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation ...

The Supreme Court has instructed the Government of India to make pictorial health warnings mandatory on the packets of tobacco products and restricting other courts in the country to pass any ...

CHENNAI: On Sunday, followers of the saga of pictorial warnings on tobacco products may be a little disappointed: the scorpion and the diseased lung may not be seen at every shop selling tobacco ...

“Despite the fact that more countries are using pictorial warnings ... such products do not reduce health risks. Tobacco companies spend tens of millions of dollars every year turning new ...

The Supreme Court today refused to stay the operation of new amended rules of ... regulation that packets of tobacco products must carry pictorial warning covering 85 per cent of the packaging ...

New Delhi, May 11 () Expressing concern over larger pictorial warnings on tobacco products, industry bodies CII and FICCI today said it has led to spurt in illegal import of cigarettes and the ...

According to the new norm, packets of cigarettes and other tobacco products will have 85 per cent of their area covered by pictorial warnings besides the text warning which has existed for long ...

Brand names will only be placed at the bottom of the pack, making tobacco products look as unappealing as possible. Research has shown that large pictorial warnings are effective in encouraging ...

As a doctor in a government hospital, I can vouch for the impact that pictorial warnings ... on and issuing graphic warnings about tobacco products. Dr. Arpit Jain,New Delhi The size of the ...

[The study provided] a solid evidential base to inform the revision of the Tobacco Products Directive in 2014 … The study’s detailed review of the current literature and empirical findings also ...