May 23, 2026

Science Chronicle

A Science and Technology Blog

May 23, 2026

Science Chronicle

A Science and Technology Blog

Pictorial warnings

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Pictorial warning: Will public health override free speech in the U.S?

It is an irony that a country that introduced text health warnings in 1966 and updated it in 1984 to

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India to use scarier yet banal pictorial warnings on tobacco products

Starting September 2018, all tobacco products will have scarier pictorial warnings and new grimmer written messages. And for the first

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Discouraging cigarette sales by prohibiting its sale in the loose

The acceptance of a proposal to prohibit the sale of cigarettes in the loose, and raise the minimum age from

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Editorial: Packaging punch

Published in The Hindu on August 21, 2012 Indian policymakers should take a long hard look at the recent decision

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Editorial: Make pictures speak

Published in the Hindu on November 19, 2009 If the objective is to persuade tobacco users to quit the self-destructive

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