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2,400,000,000,000: Chinese are smoking nearly half of world's totalChina's cigarette consumption has surged by 39% between 2003 and 2023, contrasting with a global decline. Despite fewer young smokers, low ...- Southeast Asia’s tobacco toll meets India’s tough tax moveTobacco causes more deaths in Southeast Asia than any other preventable factor, claiming 3.2 million lives annually. India is using fiscal ...
- 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 ...
- Sale of single cigarettes to be banned by Parliament to reduce tobacco consumptionEmphasizing the side effects of tobacco, the Standing Committee has proposed a ban on the sale and production of all single cigarettes to t...
- Public health groups, doctors urge govt to hike excise duty on tobacco products in next Union BudgetPublic health groups, along with economists and doctors, have urged the government to increase excise duty on all tobacco products in the U...
- Tax non-virginia tobacco to earn Rs 40,000 crore revenue: NGO writes to CentreThe NGO Shram has already written to the Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on the issue urging to...
- The GST cess shortfall – does tobacco hold the key?Tobacco is taxed at the highest slab of GST at 28 percent, being ‘sin goods’ and further attracting levies of additional duties like NCCD. ...
- Budget 2019: FAIFA urges government to correct cigarette taxation error to lessen burdenCigarettes account for 86% of revenue from tobacco taxation, while the contribution to tax collections from beedi and smokeless tobacco are...
- Experts urge GoM, GST council, to increase cess on tobacco productsThe overall tax rate on all tobacco products in India is still very low compared to other middle-income countries, including those in South...
- Rs 19,293 crore tax collected on tobacco in 2016-17: J P NaddaHe said there was no earmarking of funds to the health care sector out of the funds collected from taxes on tobacco.
- 70 million women in India use smokeless tobacco to suppress hunger: ReportThe report said that using SLT during pregnancy results in 70 per cent higher risk of anaemia in pregnant women, 2-3 times higher rate of l...
- 'Sin Tax' on tobacco below 40% to have negative impact: Voluntary Health Association of AssamVHAA demanded at least 40 per cent sin tax with a provision for states' right to impose top-up taxes on all types of tobacco, like cigarett...
- Smoking burns Rs 1.04-trillion hole in economy; WHO for large warningsIn case of bidi smokers, as many as 62 per cent notice health warnings on the packs and 29 per cent think of quitting due to the warning.
- Budget 2016: Hike sin tax on tobacco by up to 40%, says health ministryAs per government estimates, the total economic cost attributable to tobacco use from all diseases in the year 2011 amounted to Rs 1,04,500...
- Tobacco products cheaper than essential food items: WHO study"Prices of tobacco products in the country have not increased substantially over time, thus making these products even cheaper than essenti...
- Increase taxes on tobacco products to curb demand: WHOEven as India made progress in increasing taxes on cigarettes between 2012-14, it has little effect as the "modest hikes" were compensated ...
- Increase taxes on tobacco products to curb demand: WHOThe report also urged nations across the globe to raise taxes on tobacco products to reduce their consumption.
- Narendra Modi government imposes largest ever excise duty hike on cigarettesThe biggest achievement of the new government in its first 100 days has been in imposing the largest-ever hike in excise duty on cigarettes...
- World Health Organisation calls for raising tax on tobacco to check consumptionThe World Health Organisation (WHO) has called for increasing tax on tobacco products to highlight health risks associated with its use.
- 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.
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