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Come June next year, the pictorial warnings on tobacco packets is set to become more ghastly.
According to a report by Times of India, from June 1 2024, the packet will display a picture of a person suffering from final-stage oral cancer along with the warning that states, "Tobacco causes painful death".
The government said they will also print the national tobacco quit line services number on the packet itself.
Officials said that though the packets already display pictorial warnings, they are bound to get more disturbing. The government rotates pictorial warnings every two years that are to be displayed on both sides of tobacco products.
They government believes the main crux of the issue is that of visual fatigue. People may grow tired or even 'get used to' looking at the same picture which eventually will lose the effect they intended to have.
At the moment India has more than 28 crore tobacco users. An estimated 1 lakh people die due to diseases caused by the use of tobacco. Nearly 12 per cent young people in the age group of 15 to 24 years are tobacco users.