Updated On: 31 May, 2009 01:25 PM IST | | PTI
All tobacco products will have to carry compulsory pictorial warnings on their packs from today highlighting the health hazards of its consumption, a long- awaited step aimed at cutting down on the killer habit.
All tobacco products will have to carry compulsory pictorial warnings on their packs from today highlighting the health hazards of its consumption, a long- awaited step aimed at cutting down on the killer habit.
The government order in this regard has come despite stiff resistance from tobacco manufacturers. The products will have to clearly display a "scorpion" and "lungs" as pictorial warnings.