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Posted on August 30, 2019August 30, 2019

Pictorial warning: Will public health override free speech in the U.S?

It is an irony that a country that introduced text health warnings in 1966 and updated it in 1984 to include the Surgeon General’s warning, cigarettes packages in the U.S…

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Posted on April 30, 2018April 30, 2018

India to use scarier yet banal pictorial warnings on tobacco products

Starting September 2018, all tobacco products will have scarier pictorial warnings and new grimmer written messages. And for the first time, toll-free telephone numbers will be displayed on packets to…

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Posted on May 28, 2016July 20, 2016

Get ready for plain packaging of tobacco products

Following Australia’s example, for this year’s World No Tobacco Day on May 31 the World Health Organisation is calling on countries to “get ready for plain packaging of tobacco products”.…

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Posted on March 18, 2016June 11, 2016

Let larger pictorial warnings stay

Nearly one million tobacco-related deaths take place in India every year, and in 2011, the total health expenditure burden from all diseases due to tobacco use amounted to more than…

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Posted on March 15, 2016June 11, 2016

Parliamentary committee recommends smaller pictorial warnings

Health Ministry’s plan to introduce pictorial warnings covering 85 per cent of the display area on the front and back sides of tobacco products from April 1, 2016 has hit…

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Posted on January 28, 2016June 11, 2016

Sounding the smoke alarm on sale of tobacco to minors

Thanks to the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015, tobacco companies in India may find it hard to lure children below the age of 18 into the…

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Posted on January 18, 2016June 11, 2016

Editorial: This tobacco warning should stay

Following a controversy sparked recently over remarks by some Members of Parliament on tobacco use, a group of leading film-makers is seeking to dilute the strong tobacco control measures undertaken…

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Posted on January 18, 2016June 11, 2016

A pictorial warning must shock

What is the connection between a scorpion, tobacco and cancer? Well, absolutely nothing. If any, it is the crab that is an international symbol of cancer. Yet, the previous government…

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