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US group 'campaign for tobacco-free kids' placed under PRCCentre placed Campaign For Tobacco-Free Kids under PRC, impacting international donations in India. CFTK partners with Michael Bloomberg to...- Michael Bloomberg turns the dial on Indian health policy
- Trade bodies, users term ordinance to ban e-cigarettes a draconian moveAssociation of Vapers India (AVI), an organisation representing e-cigarette users, said it is a black day for 11 crore smokers in India who...
- Higher taxation killing Indian cigarette brandsIn last 6 years, there has been 202% increase in taxation on cigarettes. There is no logic that legal cigarettes, accounting for only 11% o...
- Should government stop investing in tobacco companies via its insurance firms?The statistics shows every third tobacco user dies a premature death, it causes nearly half the cancer cases in India and 90% of mouth canc...
- MHA order revoking license of PHFI lists 7 'undesirable activities'The seven "undesirable activities" include declaring only six of its 151 bank accounts and wrongful declaration of Rs 43 crore received for...
- Foreign funds: NGO takes home ministry to courtA Bengaluru-based public health NGO that works with the state and Union health ministries has taken the Union home ministry to court for de...
- Government mulls new licensing policy for tobacco itemsThe Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) has started internal discussions on the policy implication of licensing for the se...
- Tobacco growers blame lobbyists for high taxes hereITGA has claimed that more than $1 billion have been pumped into anti-tobacco movement in last two years by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundati...
- For first time, tobacco use is down in country: Family health surveyThe use of tobacco, the leading cause of preventable death, has for the first time begun to decline across country.
- Withdraw notification for larger warning on tobacco products, say farmers' bodyIt also claimed that there was a quantum jump in the illegal sales of smuggled cigarettes which is leading to reduced sale of home grown to...
- 'NGOs' acting at behest of foreign tobacco firms: ITC chiefITC's Chairman Y C Deveshwar said if cigarettes were harmful, then why the product was being sold in airport duty-free shops.
- Cigarette sales fall on sharp increase in taxesSales volume fell by more than 10% in the July-December period from the January-June half due to a 15-35% increase in cigarette prices
- Government proposes ban on sale of loose cigarettesIt has also proposed raising of fine to Rs 1000 from Rs 200 on smoking in public places as well as recommending removal of designated smoki...
- Health Ministry welcomes SC judgement on cigarette, tobacco adsThe court also slammed the Centre for "conniving" with the tobacco lobby when people are daily dying of cancer.
- Tobacco industry’s bet on India & China may lead to surge in lifestyle diseases: Thomas ZeltnerThe tobacco industry has high designs on markets such as India and China, and he portends a massive rise in lifestyle-related diseases in t...
- Gutkha ban: Health Ministry mulls penalising companies for ad blitzHealth Ministry is mulling to penalise firms manufacturing smokeless tobacco products for violating key provisions of food safety law.
- Expect de-rating of global cigarette stocks, ITC: Nikhil Vora, IDFC SecuritiesThe uncertainty of the cigarettes business will turn investors wary of looking at cigarettes as a trade, says Nikhil Vora, MD, IDFC Securit...
- More money, more problems: 'Avatar' success fuels criticsThe blockbuster movie "Avatar" makes some enthusiasts depressed and gives others headaches.
- I am being targeted by liquor and tobacco lobby: AnbumaniUnion Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss has alleged he is being targeted by liquor and tobacco lobby by unleashing false propaganda.
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