HealthBridge Special Advisor Shoba John was quoted in the media - again - recently. This time the subject was graphic warnings on cigarette packages in India.

"Government needs to prioritise the nation's health over narrow commercial interests," the article, in the Business Standard online, quoted Shoba saying.

Last October India's national government directed tobacco companies to increase the size of warnings so that they cover 85% of the front and back of packages, as of April 1, 2015. That is the same size as warnings on cigarette packages in Thailand, pictured here.

Read the article in the Business Standard.