India Top Court Orders Large Health Warning on Cigarette Packets
- Top court stays lower court order allowing smaller warnings
- Court says health of citizen has primacy over tobacco business
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India’s top court rejected a plea by cigarette makers to reduce the size of pictorial health warning on packets, dealing a blow to their efforts to boost sales.
A three-member panel headed by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra rebuffed the tobacco industry’s argument that covering 85 percent of cigarette packets with health warning will hit their business. The order reverses a direction by a lower court that had allowed cigarette makers to reduce the size.