Parliament Okays bill on Pictorial Warning on Tobacco Products

Source from:  timesofindia.indiatimes.com 10 Sep 2007 09/11/2007

Parliament on Monday passed a bill that provides for pictorial warning on tobacco products, with the option of displaying skull and cross bones, with the Rajya Sabha adopting the measure. The controversial bill, already adopted by Lok Sabha last week, was passed by the Upper House by a voice vote without any discussion amid uproar created by the Opposition NDA over its demand for setting up a Joint Parliamentary Committee to look into the Indo-US nuclear deal. The Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Amendment Bill, 2007, makes pictorial warning by display of skull and crossbones on tobacco products optional rather than mandatory. Enditem