Ceylon Tobacco files appeal application to Supreme Court

26 May 2014

Ceylon Tobacco Company PLC (CTC), the unit of British American Tobacco, which holds a monopoly on tobacco products in Sri Lanka, said it is making an appeal to the Supreme Court over the judgment delivered by the Court of Appeal that mandated the company to include pictorial health warnings on its cigarette packets. In the judgment as read out in open court, it was held that the regulations relating to pictorial warnings on cigarette packets by the government should be amended, reducing the size of the graphic health warning from the proposed 80 percent to 50 – 60 percent.