The Supreme Court has ordered Cigarette Manufacturers to follow the new controversial rules on Wednesday. The rule is that the Cigarette manufacturers had to portray bigger warnings on the packets. Such new rule resulted in weeks-long factory shutdowns. The tobacco industry has taken to the court arguing that the directives with graphic images of lungs and mouth are too harsh.

The new rules are implemented from April 1 that 85% of the surface of Cigarette packet must have warning images as the manufacturers are using only 20% of the surface. The Supreme Court has transferred all of the petitions, some brought by makers of beedis, to a different court in the southern state of Karnataka. The court ordered manufacturers have to comply in the meantime the government’s rules in the meantime.

One of the spokespersons said that “It is expected that all petitioners will comply with the 2014 amendment rule.” The tobacco industry says that it is too difficult to implement the rules and it will lead to an increase in the smuggling of illegal cigarettes. On April 1 the Tobacco Institute of India said its members would be shutting their factories owing to “ambiguity” over the rules.

This led to estimated losses of 3.5 billion rupees ($53 million) a day. “We understand the consumption of tobacco is harmful but we have to safeguard the interests of 50 million poor people associated with the tobacco trade,” Dilip Gandhi, chairman of the parliamentary panel, told.

According to the statistics, up to 900,000 people in India die every year from causes related to tobacco use, and researchers have warned that figure could reach 1.5 million by the end of the decade.