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Jump to full article: PTI - Press Trust of India (in), 2009-06-04
Author: Anupam Malhotra
Intro: Pictorial warning on tobacco products may take time to come into effect but experts differ its effectiveness in actually dissuading smokers.
"Showing great results in 22 countries of the world, these pictorial warnings on the tobacco products have influenced 42 per cent smokers to quit smoking," says a WHO source.
"But in India, the complexity is very high in the form of different options available in the market and because there is huge difference of taxation between different tobacco products, therefore people will not drastically cut down consumption and may shift to cheaper options, he says."
He emphasized that "like cigarettes, government should raise the prices of gutkas and bidis too" to reduce the consumption of all tobacco products.
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