Click to play videoNew Delhi: There have been strong reactions from across the country to the Health Ministry’s attempt at implementing the tobacco legislation in letter and spirit.
It now wants every smoker to ask members of his or her household before lighting up.
“This is crazy,” and “I don’t have anyy complaints against my husband smoking,” are few such reactions.
However, the Union Health Minister, Dr Anbumani Ramadoss who was given an award by the WHO on Friday for his no tobacco campaign is taking this a step forward.
The people are saying that no tobacco campaign may have got Ramadoss a pat on the back from the international community but back home his cabinet colleagues are speaking in a different voice.
The Union Cabinet has decided to bring about an amendment to the 2003 tobacco legislation so that the warning on that cigarette pack doesn't have to be a skull and cross bone.
Says Information and broadcasting minister, P R Dasmunshi, “It shall certainly not be the skull and cross bone.”
However Ramadoss thinks otherwise. “The pictorial warning will be there,” he says.
The warnings are part of several suggestions made by a joint parliamentary community in 2002 but now most of Ramadoss cabinet colleagues appear to be having second thoughts about the graphic warnings.
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