Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Notification G.S.R. 417(E), May 27, 2011

01 Dec, 2011

COMMENTS: G.S.R. 417(E) announces the Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Packaging and Labelling) Amendment Rules, 2011. The rules establish new graphic health warnings for packages of smoked and smokeless forms of tobacco. The rules also increase the number of warnings for smoked tobacco products from two to four, and increases the number of warnings for smokeless tobacco products from one to four. The new warnings became effective December 1, 2011, but were subsequently replaced by the health warnings contained in G.S.R. 724(E).

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