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New
tobacco pictorial warnings from Dec 1
Wednesday November 10, 2010 09:56:53 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad Wednesday said
the new pictorial warnings on tobacco product packs will be
effective from Dec 1.
"The effective date for the revised pictorial warnings will now be
Dec 1," Azad said in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha.
The new pictorial warnings have been brought in as surveys showed
that the old warnings were proving to be ineffective.
A study was conducted by Hriday, a Delhi based NGO, in Delhi,
Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Tripura to test the
effectiveness of existing pictorial warnings in preventing people
from using tobacco products.
More than 63 percent of the respondents felt that the warning
labels were inadequate in conveying the adverse impact of tobacco
use on health.
A similar study was also conducted by Healis Sekhsaria Institute
of Public Health, Mumbai, which concluded that the existing
pictorial health warnings on tobacco product packs were not
serving the desired purpose.
The new pictorial warnings were issued by the government March 5.
These were supposed to be effective from June 1 but the plan got
delayed.
"A number of representations have been received from sections of
the tobacco industry apprising that the changeover to new
pictorial warnings on tobacco packs entails a period of 9-10
months, necessitating additional time for compliance," he said.
According to a recently released Global Adult Tobacco Survey
report, India is the second largest consumer of tobacco products
in the world and the third largest producer of tobacco.
The report revealed that nearly 0.9 million deaths occur in India
every year due to tobacco use as compared to 5.5 million deaths
worldwide.
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