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| HC seeks reply on PIL for ban on cigarette sale without pictorial warning | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, May 10: A division bench of the state high court today directed J&K government and Union of India to file their reply to a PIL, seeking prohibition on the sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products without 85 pc pictorial and textual warning on their packaging.
While issuing notice to Union of India through the secretary ministry of health and family welfare and divisional commissioners of Kashmir and Jammu, a division bench of chief justice N Paul VAsanathakumar and Justice Ali Mohammad Magrey directed the counsels to seek instructions within two weeks.
The PIL has sought prohibition on the sale of tobacco products without adequate pictorial and test warning and direction to officials to confiscate all cigarettes and other tobacco products having pictorial and textual warning of less than 85 pc.
He said an estimated additional 600,000 people a year die from second hand smoke. Tobacco use is a risk factor for six of the eight leading causes of deaths in the world. According to a report published by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, he said, the total economic costs (direct and indirect) attributable to tobacco use from all diseases in India in 2011 for persons aged between 35 and 69 amounted to Rs. 1,04,500 crores. |
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