Azad Clears New Pictorial Warnings for Tobacco Products Packages

The Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad has cleared the new pictorial warnings for implementation for tobacco products packages. The new notification issued on 27.5.2011, provides for strong pictorial warnings for smoking (cigarettes, bidis, cigars etc) and smokeless or chewing forms of tobacco products (click here to see the details.). A set of four pictures each of lung and oral cancer have been notified and will come into effect from 1.12.2011. The warnings will be rotated every two years from then onwards.In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 7, sub-section (2) of section 8, section 10 and section 31 of the Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003 (34 of 2003), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Packaging and Labelling) Rules, 2008. These Rules may be called the Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Packaging and Labelling) Amendment Rules, 2011.

Courtesy : PIB