Mysuru: Anti-Tobacco Forum and Cancer Patients AIDS Association, Mysuru have welcomed the Supreme Court stay on the orders of the High Court of Karnataka, that had quashed the 2014 government regulation made under Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003, to the effect that tobacco products packets must have 85 per cent pictorial warning, covering the packaging space.
The Supreme Court Bench has vindicated the stand ‘health before economics’ taken by the activists.
