Instruction regarding Health Warning on both sides of the tobacco product packages covering 85% of display area

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..... both sides of the tobacco product packages covering 85% of display area - reg. Madam/Sir, Reference is invited to D.O. letter No. P.16011/02/2017-TC (Part 1) dated 09.12.2022 from the Department of Health and Family Welfare, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), New Delhi on the above-mentioned subject (copy enclosed). 2. Vide this DO dated 09.12.2022, MoHFW has informed that the Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, COTPA, 2003 is applicable to all the tobacco products and extends to whole of the country. Section 7 of the Act provides for specified Health Warning on all tobacco product packs. These rules have been amend .....

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..... products and extends to whole of the country. Section 7 of the Act provides tor Specified Health Warnings on all tobacco product packs. 2. The Ministry notified the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Packaging and Labelling) Rules, vide G.S.R. 182(E), dated 15th March, 2008 and the Rules have been amended from time to time, for display of specified health warnings on all tobacco product packs, thereby mandating the display of specified health warnings on both sides of the tobacco product packages covering 85% of the principal display area. The rules were amended last in July, 2020 vide GSR 458(E), dated 21st July, 2020. 3. As per Rule 5 of the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Packaging and Labelling) Rules, the specifi .....

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..... may be called the Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Packaging and Labelling) Amendment Rules, 2022. (2) They shall come into force on the 1st day of December, 2022. 2. In the Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Packaging and Labelling) Rules, 2008, the Schedule : (i) in paragraph 1, for clause (i) the following clause shall be substituted, namely :- "(i) Textual Health Warning. - For smoking and smokeless forms of tobacco products, the words 'TOBACCO CAUSES PAINFUL DEATH' in Image-1 and the words 'TOBACCO USERS DIE YOUNGER' in Image-2 shall appear in white font colour on a red background. The words 'QUIT TODAY CALL 1800-11-2356' shall appear in white font colour on a black background. The intensity of colour in the b .....

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