Just when we anti-tobacco lobbyists have started to believe that we have earned ourselves a feather in our cap by getting the national ban on smoking in public places into effect we are now jolted out of our reverie by the recent volte-face shown by our brethren in the polity on the pictorial warnings law.
The deference of the pictorial warning law to post elections day means that this law would not see the light of day till maybe april 2009. It seems like the smoke-screen just blew out leaving us with a clear view of the challenges that lie ahead.
For those of you who have not read about it, I have pasted the complete story as reported by the Times of India on 26 November 2009, in the adjoining image.
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