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Largest pictorial warning on cigarette packs
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- India was ranked 5th among 206 countries in the Cigarette Package Health Warnings: International Status Report 2018 released by the Canadian Cancer Society.
- India secured the 5th rank jointly with Hong Kong and Thailand for 85% warnings.
- The ranking of the countries was in terms of largest pictorial warning on cigarette packs.
- In India, 85% of both sides of cigarette packets are covered with warnings.
- In 2018 report, Timor-Leste has the largest warnings on cigarette packages in the world with 92.5% on front and back.
- It was followed by Nepal and Vanuatu with 90% and New Zealand at fourth with 87.5%.
- It was released in Geneva at 8th session of Conference of Parties to WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC).
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