No to graphic warning

After cigarette manufacturing companies stopped production to protest the statutory pictorial warnings on cigarette packs, it's now the turn of small tobacco product sellers to threaten agitation.

The Akhil Bharatiya Pan Vikreta Sangathan - duly supported by the Confederation of All India Traders - says that the pictorial warnings that will cover 85 per cent of the packaging of tobacco products will be "detrimental to the trade of lakhs of small tobacco product sellers, tea stall and cold drink stall vendors, small shopkeepers and daily earners".

It has announced a meeting on Tuesday to oppose the order of the government "tooth and nail".