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India’s Micro retails demands review and urgent investigation into tobacco activism trail

Hyderabad, Apr 21 (UNI) Thousands of micro retailers selling paan, bidi, cigarette and other tobacco products in Hyderabad today joined the nation-wide protests called by the micro retailers selling tobacco products, demanding investigation into the motives behind the new rule to implement 85 per cent graphic health warnings on tobacco products in India, and an immediate correction to the rule.
Micro retailers are protesting under the aegis of Pan Shops Owners Association of India, which present the collective voice of the interests of more than 1.5 lakhs traders, retailers and panwallas, selling tobacco products across Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
Retailers are protesting against an uncertain and a livelihood threatening policy environment towards tobacco products and insistence to roll out 85 per cent graphic health warnings in India – by going totally out of the way in comparison to how the most developed, the highest tobacco growing and the highest tobacco consuming countries have handled the issue.
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