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The government may be delaying the deadline for implementing pictorial health warnings on tobacco products, but a whopping 99 percent of Indians living in metros believe stricter warning labels on tobacco products are a must to effectively communicate the dangers of tobacco use, says a survey.4:03 PM on February 02
Lalita Pawar Monday, February 02, 2009
The pictures must as be as lurid as the bitter realities of using tobacco. They must include gory depiction of burning lungs, young misguided smokers ( men, women) writhing with pain all over the body, polluting air with the smokes emanating from the "fool's cylindrical tube", public places dirtied with their disease carrying sputum, noise pollution due to their coughing, giddy, excied, neurotic social and family behaviour of academically mediocre young smokers in a false show of what they think "youthful vigour" and so on. A choice of 10,000 such different depictions will be available through a public contest in which those affected by smokers deaf to anti smoking propaganda paricipate.One pic should Yama embracing a young with cigarette packs in his hands in his early thirties.
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