Government has notified new, stricter pictorial warnings for smoking and smokeless forms of tobacco. The new warnings will come into effect from 1st April, 2013.
A set of three pictorial warnings each for both smoking and smokeless forms of tobacco to be displayed on tobacco product packages have been notified by the Health Ministry.

The newly approved warnings are designed to be much more effective than the previous ones and focus in detail the portion of the human body affected by tobacco use.
The Health Ministry has for the first time inserted the word Warning in the new pictorial warnings and mandated that this word be printed in red alongwith the messages – Smoking kills and Tobacco kills .