India shows care for loved-ones; exposure to second-hand smoke reducesA little more than one-third (35%) of the non-smokers were exposed to second hand smoke at home in India.
Shatrughan Sinha demands ban on tobacco items with liquorShatrughan Sinha was speaking after laying foundation of a cancer awareness, testing and advisory centre at Kisanganj in Bihar.
Tobacco use in India down from 34.6% of adult population to 28.6%Also, there is an increase of one year in the mean age at initiation of tobacco use from 17.9 years in 2009-10 to 18.9 years in 2016-17, th...
Government mulls compulsory licensing for 'other tobacco products'These tobacco products include khaini, tobacco blended pan masala, hookah or gooduku tobacco, zarda, bidis and other chewable/eatable tobac...
Govt opening up e-commerce sector for FDI in a calibrated wayCommerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that an entity is permitted to undertake retail trading through e-commerce under cer...
Government labs to test tar, nicotine level in tobacco productsCigarette and bidi manufacturers may soon have to declare tar and nicotine content on their packets, with government preparing to launch te...
Delhi government not to take action against chewable tobacco sellersDelhi High Court today restrained city government from taking any coercive action against the sellers and distributors of chewable tobacco .
- Delhi government to respond on plea against ban on chewable tobacco
The Delhi High Court today sought response of the city government on a plea of manufacturers against ban on sale of chewable tobacco in the...
Delhi government to ban sale, purchase of chewable tobacco from MondayDelhi government will put a ban on sale, purchase and even storage of all forms of chewable tobacco in the national capital from Monday.
Health Minister Harsh Vardhan urges states to ban gutka, zarda, khainiVardhan in a letter on Wednesday told the states that India has the highest number of this type of cancer in the world.
5% export duty on iron ore pellets; excise hiked on gutkhaThe government today imposed a five per cent export duty on iron pellets, a critical raw material for the steel industry, and raised excise...
Health Ministry endorses ban on chewing tobacco, gutkaHealth ministry endorsed a ban on manufacture & sale of all forms of nicotine-laced pan masala, gutka and chewing tobacco.
Maharashtra bans betel leaf, 'maava' and flavoured tobacco mixMaharashtra government has extended the ban on sale and manufacture of gutka as well as paan masala to include all types of processed or pa...
- Tobacco products banned in interior Manipur district
Tobacco products such as Zarda, Gutkha, etc have been banned in interior Bishenpur district of Manipur with immediate effect, official sour...
- West Bengal government increases tax on cigarette; may further increase prices
The companies are likely to take the final call on exact price hike by April, as other state governments present their Budget.
- Chief Ministers of 11 states to support an anti-tobacco campaign
Chief Ministers of 11 states in India have pledged their support to Voice of Tobacco Victims (VOTV), a national campaign against chewing to...
- Ban on plastic gutka pouches causing job losses in Kanpur
The ban on sale of tobacco products in plastic sachets beyond March 1, will severely hit the industrial city's Rs 400-crore gutka industry ...