Giving in to the demand of the tobacco industry, the government decided to retain the existing pictorial warnings on cigarette and bidi packages for one more year. The decision taken at a meeting of the Cabinet comes a week after tobacco majors like ITC and Godfrey Phillips India (GPI) stopped production due to uncertainty.
The Cabinet has decided to retain the current pictorial warnings for one more year, after which it will be reviewed in December 2011, sources said. The existing pictorial warnings —a scorpion on bidipacks and a cancer-affected lung on cigarette packs — were to be replaced by a canceraffected mouth, from December 1 after a notification by the ministry of health and family welfare in May this year. Such warnings are to be rotated every year.
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