currently, cigarette packets sold in india carry only a statutory text warning, ‘cigarette smoking is injurious to health‘. this is in a fairly small font size, at the bottom of the packets which hardly gets noticed. if i may put an image here of a fairly common brand of cigarette in india called, ‘wills classic milds‘. at the bottom of the image you can notice (may not read properly) a thin line of text. wells thats the warning that cigarette packets here in india carry.
but come june, things are going to change. all packets of tobacco products sold in india are required to carry pictorial warnings in a bid to deter people from smoking. in this regard the union health ministry has issued the final notification. the notification says,
“every person engaged directly or indirectly in the production, supply, import and distribution of tobacco products should ensure that every package has the specified health warning. the warnings will have to occupy 40% of the principal display area of the pack. none of the elements of the specified warning are severed, covered or hidden in any manner when the packet is sealed. no package can be sold unless it carries the health warnings.”
the ministry has also finalized on a set of images to be used on the packages.
hands down you will agree with me that these images look gruesome.
now i don’t know, how i will react when i see these on my packet of smoke? but my question is, why does the government bully smokers in this way? not undermining the health risks involved with smoking, ultimately, it comes down to an individual’s right to choose when it comes to personal risk. i have only two points to make here.
- if the government is really worried about health issues, would it not be doing the same exercise of putting pictorial warnings on bottles of alcohol? but our government does not seem to be thinking about that. the truth is alcohol lobbying groups are much stronger and the govt does not want to offend them.
- and if smoking is really so dangerous and anti-social, why does not the government make it illegal? you know they won’t do it. simply because they generate huge amounts of revenue in excise duty from tobacco products. to make smoking illegal means, they will loose out on a huge sum of revenue.
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Anyway, that’s a great step. That action,hopefully, should discourage people from smoking. But instead of discouraging people, why not just make it illegal? Yes perhaps you are right. Or maybe you are really right. They also have their share when people buy those cigarettes.
Now, it all depends on the people. It’s their choice to get rid of cigarettes by not buying them. If they can’t do anything that stores are openly selling them, then they should just avoid buying one.
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