The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has issued a notification recognising the new set of pictorial warnings to be displayed on packets of tobacco products. However, it will come into force only on December 1, 2011.The Centre amended the Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Packaging and Labelling) Rules, 2008, a few days ahead of the World No Tobacco Day on May 31.
For cigarette and beedi packets there are three pictures of diseased lungs and one of oral cancer. For chewed tobacco products there are four images of oral cancer.
But what About General Public who are very Sensitive....