Raise pictorial warnings on tobacco products: Ex-Health Minister Ramadoss urges Centre
Anbumani Ramadoss File Photo
Ex-Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss took on the Centre by asking them to raise pictorial warnings on tobacco products on Friday, say news chanel reports. He said that the warnings must be increased from 40% to 80%.
The Centre had earlier stayed the decision to increase the size of pictorial warnings on tobacco products following a Parliamentary panel’s assertion that it needs more time to deliberate on the issue. Health Minister J P Nadda, however, had insisted that the government was committed to its stand on increasing the size of pictorial warning and curbing tobacco consumption in all its forms and have informed the panel on the same. “The committee has said that they want to deliberate it further. They have asked for more time for deliberation. Till that time, the warning which was to come up on advertisement and on the packets has been stayed,” he had said.
“But the Health Ministry, when it went to the Committee, whatever we have said, we are firm on that. We have pleaded that there was a necessity for this (warnings). Health Ministry is very much on its stand,” Nadda said.
A controversy broke out on Thursday over remarks by ‘beedi’ baron and a parliamentary committee member from BJP Shyam Charan Gupta suggesting “nil” effect of smoking, evoking sharp reaction from Opposition parties which sought his removal from the panel.
“I can produce a lot of people in front of you who are chain smokers of beedi and till date they have had no disease, no cancer.
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