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Written By: Editorial Team | Published : April 3, 2015 9:01 PM IST
Former health minister Anbumani Ramadoss (May 2004 to April 2009) has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to increase the size of graphic pictorial warnings on tobacco products to 85 percent.
The founder member of the PMK, which is a National Democratic Alliance ally, described arguments against increasing the size of pictorial warnings on cigarette packets as ignorant and foolish .
It is high time the prime minister intervened. I appeal to him to order the health ministry to increase pictorial warning to 85 percent immediately, Ramadoss told the media. Read about how you can deal with the first 72 hours of quitting smoking.
The health ministry has put in abeyance a move to increase pictorial warning in tobacco products to 85 percent effective April 1.
Ramadoss noted that an MP has stated that there were no studies to link tobacco use leads to cancer, to which another parliamentarian has said by using the same logic, sugar should be banned.
The former minister said both these were ignorant and foolish utterances without any scientific basis and the centre should stop it as the country should not be put to shame . Read about the 10 things that helped me survive the incredibly tough first two months of quitting smoking.
He noted that globally acclaimed institutions, including the Indian Council of Medical Research, have done hundreds of studies linking tobacco use to not just cancer, but to diseases related to kidney, lungs and brain as well.
With inputs from IANS
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