UK lawmakers approve lifetime smoking ban for today's under-18sBritain passes landmark law to create a smoke-free generation by permanently banning cigarette sales to those aged 17 and under and tighten...
22 Apr, 2026, 05.01 PM IST
'No intent to promote smoking': SC on cover of Arundhati Roy's memoir 'Mother Mary Comes To Me'The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a plea seeking a ban on Arundhati Roy’s book Mother Mary Comes to Me, which alleged that its cover im...
05 Dec, 2025, 05.30 PM IST
Supreme Court rejects plea for prohibiting sale of Arundhati Roy's book whose cover depicts her smokingThe bench said that the author and the publisher Penguin Hamish Hamilton have not violated Section 5 of the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Pr...
05 Dec, 2025, 12.24 PM IST
Karnataka tightens cigarette laws: From sales to public smoking restrictions, new rules hereThe Karnataka government introduced the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Bill, 2024, raising the legal age for purchasing cigarettes. ...
22 Feb, 2024, 10.01 AM IST
Govt notifies new enhanced pictorial health warnings for tobacco productsThe Union Health Ministry Thursday notified new sets of specified health warnings with enhanced pictorial images to be printed on all tobac...
23 Jul, 2020, 10.44 PM IST
BCAS bans e-cigarettes in airports and aircraft"Upon the prohibition of electronic-cigarettes by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, it has been decided that e-cigarettes includes...
12 Feb, 2020, 03.26 PM IST
Health ministry calls for halting sales of e-cigarettes, smoking devicesThe health ministry said it was possible that children and non-smokers using such products could switch to cigarettes once they get addicte...
29 Aug, 2018, 11.53 AM IST
WHO wants to ban e-cigarettes indoorsReport also demands that restrictions be placed on advertising and the sale of e-cigarettes to minors, as well as highlighting the need for...
29 Aug, 2014, 02.29 PM IST
Centre asks states to strictly implement anti-tobacco lawThe Union Health Ministry has directed states to strictly implement the central rules to discourage consumption of cigarette and other toba...
04 Oct, 2013, 11.31 AM IST
US cracks down on websites selling bidis, Indian cigarettesFDA said that their several products have been found to be "adulterated" under relevant regulations and did not carry the required permits ...
11 Aug, 2013, 12.19 PM IST
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.
22 Jul, 2013, 11.01 PM IST
Cigarettes consumption up in 2011-12: GovtThere is no proposal to put a ban on production and export of tobacco products, including cigarettes.
18 Mar, 2013, 03.34 PM IST
SC stays Bombay HC ruling that permitted tobacco ads in violation of rules"There's total frustration of an Act framed in public interest," a two-judge bench, headed by Justice GS Singhvi said.
04 Jan, 2013, 10.05 AM IST
- US proposes new, graphic warning labels on cigarettes
A dead man in a coffin, a crying baby, a bald cancer patient are among new graphic warnings the US is proposing for cigarette packs.
10 Nov, 2010, 11.08 PM IST
- Govt issue notification amending Cable TV Networks Rules, 1994
In order to prevent surrogate advertising of liquor companies in print, electronic and outdoor media, Government has recently issued a noti...
18 Mar, 2008, 06.54 PM IST
- Govt issues notification banning surrogate liquor ads
Government has issued a notification banning surrogate advertising of liquor companies in print, electronic and outdoor media.
18 Mar, 2008, 06.44 PM IST
- Rajya Sabha passes Bill banning cigarette, tobacco ads
The Rajya Sabha on Wednesday passed a Bill banning advertisement of cigarettes and other tobacco products. It also prohibited sponsorship o...
09 Apr, 2003, 05.58 PM IST