There's No Attempt To Register A New Tobacco Company In Sri Lanka As Stated By GMOA-Health Minister

There's no attempt to register a new Tobacco Company in Sri Lanka and as a Government contributing  to reduce the  Cigarette Smoking in the country it will not allow to register a new Tobacco Company here the Minister of Health,Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine Dr.Rajitha Senaratne has stated by rejecting the Government Medical Officers Association's (GMOA)statement regarding  Government is attempting to register a new Tobacco Company.

GMOA's statement is a blatant lie Minister has said by questioning where were the officials of GMOA who are spreading these lies when the previous government reduced the space allow Tobacco Companies to print health warnings related to smoking in their Cigarette Packs from 80% to 60% .

Although GMOA claims that the union itself committed to reduce Tobacco use in the Country ,the so called officials  not being able to make a comment during the previous regime regarding the space reduction for  Tobacco Companies to print health warnings Health Minister has stressed.

Annually Government only receive  Rs.100 billion as taxes from Tobacco Company but need to spend Rs.72 billion annually to treat the patients who got sick due to smoking he has revealed.