In last 6 years, there has been 202% increase in taxation on cigarettes. There is no logic that legal cigarettes, accounting for only 11% o...

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...

The seven "undesirable activities" include declaring only six of its 151 bank accounts and wrongful declaration of Rs 43 crore received for...

A Bengaluru-based public health NGO that works with the state and Union health ministries has taken the Union home ministry to court for de...

The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) has started internal discussions on the policy implication of licensing for the se...

ITGA has claimed that more than $1 billion have been pumped into anti-tobacco movement in last two years by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundati...

The use of tobacco, the leading cause of preventable death, has for the first time begun to decline across country.

It 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...

ITC's Chairman Y C Deveshwar said if cigarettes were harmful, then why the product was being sold in airport duty-free shops.

Sales 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

It 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...

The court also slammed the Centre for "conniving" with the tobacco lobby when people are daily dying of cancer.

The tobacco industry has high designs on markets such as India and China, and he portends a massive rise in lifestyle-related diseases in t...

Health Ministry is mulling to penalise firms manufacturing smokeless tobacco products for violating key provisions of food safety law.

The uncertainty of the cigarettes business will turn investors wary of looking at cigarettes as a trade, says Nikhil Vora, MD, IDFC Securit...

The blockbuster movie "Avatar" makes some enthusiasts depressed and gives others headaches.

Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss has alleged he is being targeted by liquor and tobacco lobby by unleashing false propaganda.