global tobacco pictorial warnings

Global Tobacco Pictorial Warnings

Madhukar Katiyar

Source :WWW

AUSTRALIA

BRAZIL

CANADA

EUROPEAN UNION

SINGAPORE

Thailand

VENEZUELA

?? INDIA

INDIA

Despite Government’s lethargy,Supreme Court cleared display of tobacco pictorial warnings :

Court records Government Undertaking that law will be implemented from May 31,2009

Even the pictorial sign, which was to be ‘skull and bones’ -- internationally understood to depict danger — had been diluted to `scorpion' which means nothing for the common man.

The Final Decision

• “the pictorial warning shall be limited to 40 per cent of the principal display area on the front panel of the package only”

• The specified health warning will be printed, pasted or affixed.

• For smoking forms of tobacco packages, the specified warnings are depiction of lungs.

• While for chewing and smokeless forms, the warning will be a scorpion.

What to say of indirect advertising, as far as “Direct” advertising in

INDIA is concernedPlease visit:

http://www.panbahar.com/index-1.htm

to judge for yourself

“Thousands die every day while politicians sit on

their hands”