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2,400,000,000,000: Chinese are smoking nearly half of world's totalChina's cigarette consumption has surged by 39% between 2003 and 2023, contrasting with a global decline. Despite fewer young smokers, low ...- Unions should form cooperatives that own and run units in the informal sectorBharat Taxi's launch highlights a missed opportunity for trade unions. Unions could organize gig workers into cooperatives, offering them e...
- Work within parameters of globalised growth, instead of ranting and raving against itThe recently established labor codes pave the way for gig workers to access social security, but the real challenge is ensuring these laws ...
- You can save up to 80% on your term life insurance premium if you quit smoking; when and how to buy itThe additional premium that you have to pay as a smoker varies from one insurance company to another. The premium rates for smokers can be ...
- Reduce tax on 'bidis', keep it out of purview of proposed changes in COTPA: SJMThe government should create alternative employment and livelihood options for those who depend on bidi industry to earn their livelihood b...
- 80 per cent people believe use of cigarettes, bidis is a very serious problem, says surveyAround eighty per cent or more support banning smoking in all public places.
- Legalise betting on cricket, tax bidis and FM’s fiscal problems will be over: Swaminathan AiyarGoing on a huge spending spree to revive the economy would be extremely dangerous.
- Bidi smoking cost India Rs 80,550 crore last year: StudyBidi -- a cheap cigarette made of unprocessed tobacco wrapped in leaves -- is very popular in India, accounting for 81 per cent of the toba...
- Experts urge GoM, GST council, to increase cess on tobacco productsThe overall tax rate on all tobacco products in India is still very low compared to other middle-income countries, including those in South...
- Include bidi in demerit goods under GST regime, oncologists urge PM Narendra ModiThe demand from leading oncologists and 108 cancer hospitals under the aegis of the state-funded National Cancer Grid (NCG), comes ahead of...
- How increased excise duty on cigarettes has made the Indian market vulnerable to Chinese brandsIn a country where about 102 billion cigarette sticks were smoked in FY15, illegal brands and cheap imports aren’t new, although they’re sp...
- From sleek packaging to exotic flavours, bidis getting makeover to lure urban smokersNew bidi brands Camel, Black Swan and Enigma being introduced to take on cigarettes as urban smokers try out cheaper alternatives.
- India needs comprehensive tax policy for curbing tobacco use: WHOThe Centre, this January, has moved to amend the anti- smoking law and proposed radical changes, including a ban on sale of loose cigarette...
- Budget 2013: Cigarettes, cigars to become costlier by 15%As per Budget proposal, prices of entry-level smaller cigarettes, which are of the sub-65 mm length, will remain unchanged.
- Union Budget 2012-13: Pranab Mukherjee hikes excise duty on tobacco productsThe finance minister announced structural changes in excise duties on tobacco products and an increase in rates, making the 'unhealthy habi...
- Budget 2012: Government should tax all forms of tobaccoGovernment’s current administration of tobacco taxes neither serves the purpose of revenue generation, nor serves the public good and deter...
- Taxes on tobacco in India lowest in Asia PacificTax levied by India on tobacco products is among the lowest in the entire Asia Pacific region, and at variance with the World Health Organi...
- Pictorial warnings in packs of tobacco products from SundayAll tobacco products will have to carry compulsory pictorial warnings on their packs highlighting health hazards of its consumption, a long...
- Pictures to scare tobacco users after Dec 1The Centre has come up with specific pictorial warnings for all tobacco products, including cigarettes, gutkha and bidi, which manufacturer...
- Cigarettes, liquor to cost moreThere’s bad news for smokers, tipplers and tobacco chewers in the state.
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