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 concerned
Please visit:
http://www.panbahar.com/index-1.htm
to judge for yourself

“Thousands die
every day while
politicians sit on
their hands”