AMN / HEALTH DESK
Union Health Ministry has notified a new set of specified health warnings on all tobacco product packs. The amended rules will be applicable with effect from the 1st of December this year. The Ministry said, all tobacco products manufactured or imported, or packaged on or after the 1st of December, 2022 will display the image with the textual Health Warning as – Tobacco Causes Painful Death. It said, those products manufactured or imported, or packaged after the 1st of December next year shall display the image with the textual Health Warning – Tobacco users die younger.
The Ministry said, any person engaged directly or indirectly in the manufacture, production, supply, import, or distribution of cigarettes shall ensure that all tobacco product packages shall have the specified health warnings. Violation of the provision is a punishable offence with imprisonment or fine as prescribed in the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003.