Sri Lanka Puts off Graphic Labeling on Cigarettes Till March 2013

Source from:  Lanka Business Today (lk)  11/13/2012

Sri Lanka's health ministry has put off graphic labeling designed to educate consumers on the cancer and heart disease causing effects of cigarette smoke till March 2013.

  

Sri Lanka's Ceylon Tobaccco Company, a unit of British American Tobacco said in a stock exchange filing that after initially delaying the implementation till the next hearing date of November 22, a new date has been set by gazette. Enditem