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New pictorial warnings on tobacco products  

Jump to full article: The Times of India, 2010-03-11

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Come June 1 and cigarette packets and tobacco products will carry a new set of pictorial health warnings, an NGO said.

Binoy Matthew of Voluntary Health Association of India (VHAI), an NGO said: "The ministry of health and family welfare March 5 notified the new pictorial health warnings which will be implemented on all tobacco products from June 1."

"Since the news came just a few days before the No Smoking Day, we are very happy. VHAI had field tested these pictorial warnings in seven states in the country and found them to be most effective," he said.

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