Presence of manufacture details, misleading descriptors, promotional messages, pictorial and textual health warnings on tobacco product packages
| Cigarette | Bidi | Gutkha | Khaini | Betel quid | |
| (n=17) | (n=6) | (n=9) | (n=4) | (n=6) | |
| Manufacture details | |||||
| Name and address of the manufacturer | 16 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 6 |
| Origin | 17 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 6 |
| Quantity of product | 17 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| Date of packaging | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Date of expiry | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Misleading descriptor | 12 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| Written promotional message | 11 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| Picture promotional message | 4 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| Pictorial health warning | |||||
| Appropriate image | 16 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Images on both panels | 16 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Appropriate positioning | 16 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| Parallel to top edge Coverage of principal display area (in %) | 16 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 0–20 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 1 |
| 20–40 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 40–60 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| ≥60 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Textual health warning | |||||
| Textual heath warning written on both panels | 16 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| Whether legible and prominent | 16 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| ‘Warning’ written in white font on red background | 13 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| ‘Smoking causes throat cancer/Tobacco causes mouth cancer’ written in white font on black background | 16 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| Coverage of principal display area (in %) | |||||
| 0–10 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 1 |
| 10–20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 20–25 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| >25 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |