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BCCI faces directive to stop showing tobacco ads during cricket matchesThe Union Health Ministry is set to direct the BCCI to halt hoardings advertising smokeless tobacco at cricket venues, aiming to reduce you...- Public health experts pitch for higher taxes on tobacco products to make India tobacco-free in 'Amrit Kaal'Expressing concern that designated smoking zones at airports, hotel and restaurants were a major cause for second hand smoking, the public ...
- World No-Tobacco Day: Risk for oral cancer in smokers 10 times higher than that of non-smokersIn 2020, oral and lip cancer was the most common form of cancer in men in India.
- Adopt a healthy diet on World No Tobacco Day 2022Quitting smoking is not easy but extremely necessary. Smoking causes several life-threatening diseases, including cancer and heart failure....
- Jharkhand to get WHO award for tobacco controlNTCP was launched in Jharkhand in 2012 when the tobacco prevalence rate in the state was 51.1 per cent, of which 48 per cent were smokeless...
- Allow smoking, lose bar & eatery licence: BBMP to bars in BengaluruThe circular is hailed as a victory to the sustained campaign by antitobacco activists including oncologist Dr Vishal Rao, who is a member ...
- Switching to e-cigarettes not a healthy choice; can damage DNA, up cancer riskIntroduced to the market in 2004, e-cigarettes are often touted as a safer alternative to regular cigarettes.
- Government asks FICCI to close stall selling herbal cigarettes at wellness fairArora also pointed to other violations, including display of cigarettes at the counter and a person promoting cigarettes in the stall with ...
- Jammu and Kashmir government bans sale of e-cigarettesA complete ban has been imposed on the sale (including online sale), manufacture, distribution, trade, import and advertisement of Electron...
- Strawberry flavour increases toxicity in e-cigarettesNew York, Sep 20 (IANS) Are you addicted to flavoured e-cigarettes? If so, then think again before you use them.
- Parliament panel asks govt to promote tobacco cessation projectsA Parliamentary panel has termed as "negligible" and "meaningless" the government's spending on tobacco de-addiction programme.
- E-commerce portals get notice for selling e-cigarettes in PunjabPunjab government has issued notices to various e-commerce portals for allegedly violating the Drugs and Cosmetics Act by selling e-cigaret...
- Delhi government fines institutes for violating tobacco control act, collects Rs 82,000The Delhi government today issued challans to several educational institutions for allegedly not following rules under the Tobacco Control ...
- FIR against tobacco company for surrogate advertisingAs per Section 5 of COTPA 2003, all kinds of advertisements of tobacco products direct as well as indirect are banned in India.
- Smoking ban: Government collects Rs 57 lakhs in finesFurther, a survey on prevalence of tobacco usage in the city recorded that 41% men and 3.7% women use some kind of tobacco product.
- 69,000 people challaned under no-smoking rules since 2008The State Tobacco Control Cell has collected fine amount of Rs 57.92 lakhs from people violating the rules till September 30.
- The tobacco industry peddles lies: Jeffrey S WigandThis anti-tobacco crusader who hates to be called whistle-blower says he got death threats as late as last year from Big Tobacco.
- Doctor's 6-point formula to win fight against cancerDr Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of the bestselling 'The Emperor of Maladies: A Biography of Cancer', has a six-point formula to help India ...
- Assam gets Rs 7.98 crore revenue from sale of tobaccoAssam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday informed that in 2007-08, revenues of Rs 7.98 crore were earned as tax from sale of tob...
- Govt to promote tobacco free villagesWith a view to eradicate the menace of tobacco, root cause of dreaded disease like cancer, the government will promote the success of tobac...
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