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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 use is one of the biggest public health threats the world has ever faced.

There are more than one billion smokers in the world.
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