The Court of Appeal rejected British American Tobacco’s (BAT) appeal of new tobacco control measures that require the cigarette maker to pay a portion of its income into a health fund and print pictorial warnings on product packaging, The Star reported.

BAT had asked for a nine-month delay on implementing the graphic warnings. The 2014 Tobacco Control Regulations that went into effect in September also require tobacco companies to pay 2 per cent of the value of the products they manufacture into a fund created to treat smoking-related diseases, The Star said. By quashing the case, the appeals court upheld a ruling against BAT last March by the High Court, the news site said.