PM Modi for larger health warnings on cigarette packets?

April 04, 2015 15:28

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reportedly asked Health Minister JP Nadda to go ahead with enforcing larger pictorial warnings on cigarette packets after a parliamentary committee said the move should be delayed because there is no local evidence that smoking causes cancer.

The PM, sources said, wants to send a clear message that his government is not caving under pressure from the tobacco lobby. The government is likely to ask for health warnings that cover 60-65 percent of a cigarette packet.

Last year, the Health Minister had said starting April 1, 85 percent of packaging would carry a depiction of the damage done by smoking.

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