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India's Biggest Cigarette Maker ITC Criticizes Big Health Warnings On Packs

ITC said the health warnings were 'excessively large, extremely gruesome and unreasonable'.
ITC said the health warnings were 'excessively large, extremely gruesome and unreasonable'.
New Delhi: India's biggest cigarette maker ITC on Wednesday criticised the government's decision to impose bigger health warnings on cigarette packets, saying there was little evidence to link smoking to diseases depicted in those pictures. India earlier this year ordered manufacturers to cover 85 per cent of their tobacco pack's surface in health warnings, up from 20 per cent. The rules, still being challenged in a state court, wer...
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