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Cancerous mouth pictures on tobacco products from June 1 

Jump to full article: Sify.com (in), 2010-03-15

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Come June 1, packets of cigarettes and other tobacco products will display pictures of cancerous mouths as health warnings, health officials said Monday.

The 'grotesque' picture will occupy at least 40 percent of the packet area and will be displayed on the top portion so that people could be dissuaded from using tobacco which causes cancer, and is one of the top 10 killers in India.

The health ministry, as per provisions of the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Packaging and Labelling) Rules, 2008, and amended in 2008 and 2009, notified the new pictorial health warnings March 5, a health ministry official told IANS.

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