----------------------------------------------------- Do GOACAN a favour, circulate this email to your family members, relatives, neighbours and friends. Help others be better informed CONSUMERS. ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- Documented by Goa Desc Resource Centre (GDRC) Email: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- World No Tobacco Day - 31st May 2009 Showing the truth: Tobacco Health Warnings save lives --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Today India joins the league of public health champion countries by introducing pictorial health warnings on all tobacco product packages -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pictorial health warning on tobacco packs is an important public health measure - Tobacco users are not fully informed about the risks of tobacco use;pictorial health warnings fill this information gap - Pictorial warnings effectively communicate health consequences of tobacco use, even to the illiterate - Pictorial warnings prevent uptake and motivate tobacco users to quit. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Applicable to all tobacco products manufactured / packaged / imported on or after 31st May 2009 For smoking forms and for Chewing or Smokeless forms
All tobacco products manufactured/packaged or imported for sale in India must carry the specified pictorial health warnings BEWARE !! Non-compliance by Producers and Manufacturers: Fine up to Rs. 5000/- or imprisonment up to 2 years or both Non-compliance by Distributors and Sellers: Fine up to Rs. 1000/- or imprisonment up to 1 year or both Choose Life, Not Tobacco National Tobacco Control Program Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India ------------------------------------------------------------------- Advert. in The Navhind Times 31/5/09 page 16 ------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------------- GOA CIVIC AND CONSUMER ACTION NETWORK ---------------------------------------------------------- promoting civic and consumer rights in Goa ---------------------------------------------------------- GOACAN Post Box 187 Margao, Goa 403 601 GOACAN Post Box 78 Mapusa, Goa 403 507 mailto: [email protected] ----------------------------------------------------------
