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In a significant move to promote greater public understanding and negative health consequences, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has established some new required health warnings for cigarette packages and advertisements.
What are the new Warnings?
Under these guidelines, pictorial warnings on tobacco products would be displayed from June 1, next year. The manufacturers will display the front profile of the face of a person, suffering from the last stage of oral cancer, with a textual warning stating, “Tobacco causes painful death”.
The Food and Drug Administration of India (FDA) has enforced the policy for the final rule, “Tabacco Products: Required Warning for Cigarette Packages and Advertisements.” Under this, 11 new health warning would be required for Cigarette packages and advertisements. These include both textual and graphics, depicting the serious health complications and risks.
According to the health ministry, the packets will also display the national tobacco quilt line services number. The officials have said that the scary warnings on tobacco products including cigarettes have been there for years. However, the changes are designed to make them viscerally disturbing.
The warning would be displayed on both sides of tobacco products. The issue behind this move is to address the issue of fatigue, that one may developed after looking at same image for long period of time.
The goal behind these new warnings to create more awareness and detailed information about the health challenges of smoking, drinking to discourage the users.
Tobacco Cases in India
Notably, tobacco is the second-highest number of tobacco users in the world with nearly 267 million people using tobacco. The reports claimed that every year, around 13 lakh individuals lose their lives due to disease or conditions caused by the consumption of tobacco. This includes death from direct tobacco use and exposure to second-hand smoke.
According to a study published in Journal Tobacco Use Insights in 2021, around 12% young people fall in the age group of 15 to 24 years use tobacco in India.
While the Indian Government has implemented several policies to reduce the use of tobacco among youth. These programs include Cigarettes and other Tobacco Act (COTPA) and the national Tobacco control Program (NTCP).
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