Karnataka has banned gutkha and pan masala products for one year. The ban follows warnings from Chief Minister DK Shivakumar about intoxica...

Karnataka gutkha ban: Karnataka has announced a one-year ban on the sale and distribution of tobacco and nicotine products, including gutkh...

Karnataka Chief Minister D K Shivakumar has warned the pan masala and gutkha industry of an outright ban if any intoxicating substances are...

Karnataka has implemented a strict anti-tobacco law. Hookah bars are now banned. The legal age to buy tobacco has increased to 21. Penaltie...

The Karnataka government introduced the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Bill, 2024, raising the legal age for purchasing cigarettes. ...

The state government of Karnataka has imposed a ban on hookah bars, including the sale and promotion of hookah and its related ingredients....

The government plans to increase the age limit for buying tobacco items to 21 years and ban hookah bars due to concerns over their addictiv...

Speaking after the meeting, the Health Minister said apart from schools, the sale and consumption of tobacco products had been banned aroun...

Public health experts have welcomed the move by the central government to ban the use of tobacco products and spitting in public places to ...

Karnataka’s Health & Family Welfare department had, by a circular on June 15, 2016, said sale, manufacturing and distribution of e-cigarett...

Currently, FDI is prohibited in manufacturing of cigars, cigarettes and tobacco substitutes. However, it is permitted in technology collabo...

In Karnataka, 30% of the adult population, estimated at 1.5 crore is addicted to some form of tobacco.

Stringent state-level laws banning gutka have a positive impact as reduced product availability has resulted in decreased consumption of gu...

The availability of gutka and its consumption has reduced since the banning of gutka by various states, the WHO said .

“The tobacco growing farmers have requested that without providing a suitable alternative crop they should not be deprived of their livelih...

FCV tobacco is grown in AP & Karnataka. According to the association, farmers of FCV tobacco in these states don’t have any viable alternat...

Vardhan in a letter on Wednesday told the states that India has the highest number of this type of cancer in the world.