Tobacco Warnings: Smoking Kills, Yet India Drags Feet

With just a fortnight to go before larger pictorial warnings are meant to appear on cigarette packets, a parliamentary committee has said that a requirement of 85 per cent of surface area is too harsh on the tobacco industry. NDTV has accessed the committee's report, which has been submitted to the government after considerable delays. Sources, however, say that the government has no plans to change its stand on larger warnings.