Azad clears new anti-tobacco pictorial warnings

Union Health and Family Welfare Minister 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.

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.