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Warnings on packs: Activists welcome move

CHENNAI: April 1, 2010:- Cigarette packs are set to sport more gruesome pictorial warnings from June 1 this year. A notification to this effect was issued earlier this month by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The new pictures, of a cancerous mouth, will replace existing pictures of diseased lungs and scorpions, which activists claim are unclear, and do not serve as a precaution.

The new warnings are part of the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Packaging and Labelling) Rules of 2008 under which pictures are to be reviewed and changed every year to increase effectiveness.

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Tobacco Facts

The tobacco industry is already paying a damage of over 250 billion US$ to all 50 states of US of A.

The Global Settlement Agreement was a first attempt at a settlement between the state attorneys general and the tobacco companies. The settlement included a payment by the companies of $365.5 million, agreement to possible Food and Drug Administration regulation under certain circumstances, and stronger warning labels and restrictions on advertising. In exchange the companies would be freed from class-action suits and litigation costs would be capped. The agreement was reworked and as a result the tobacco industry is paying nearly 250 billion US dollors in damages to all the 50 States of USA as agreed under the "Master Settlement Agreement."