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Warnings on packs: Activists welcome move

CHENNAI: April 1, 2010:- Cigarette packs are set to sport more gruesome pictorial warnings from June 1 this year. A notification to this effect was issued earlier this month by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The new pictures, of a cancerous mouth, will replace existing pictures of diseased lungs and scorpions, which activists claim are unclear, and do not serve as a precaution.

The new warnings are part of the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Packaging and Labelling) Rules of 2008 under which pictures are to be reviewed and changed every year to increase effectiveness.

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Because there is a lag of several years between when people start using tobacco and when their health suffers, the epidemic of disease and death (as it appears today) has just begun in this world. Millions are going to die due to tobacco.

100 million deaths were caused by tobacco in the 20th century. If current trends continue, there will be up to one billion deaths in the 21st century.
Unchecked, tobacco-related deaths will increase to more than eight million a year by 2030, and 80% of those deaths will occur in the developing world.