Saturday, December 4, 2010

New Pictorial warnings on tobacco products


Recent decision by government to implement pictorial warnings of mouth cancer on tobacco products is a good step towards controlling the tobacco epidemic, Pictorial warnings on tobacco products can play an important role in a country like India where most of the illiterate and other people consumes tobacco without knowing the dangers of the product. Dangerous pictorial warning will be effective in preventing and alarming the tobacco users and also to small children who are now the main target. Now the real challenge is to implement the pictorial warnings on tobacco products as most of the tobacco products are still being sold with old pictorial warnings having lung cancer and scorpion photographs which are not very effective. The implementation of new pictorial warning will give a boost to tobacco control movement in India.