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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 ...
- Over 40 pc ads in Cricket World Cup 2023 promoted smokeless tobacco brands: StudyAccording to the study conducted by a group of experts from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and Vital Strategies, of the tota...
- Responsive Policymaking For Achieving India’s Tobacco Control Goals
- 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...
- 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. ...
- Health Minister Harsh Vardhan appeals all states, UTs to ban sale of tobacco products, spitting in publicIn a letter to all state health ministers, Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said smokeless tobacco users have a tendency to spit in public pla...
- 28 states, UTs ban smokeless tobacco products, spitting due to coronavirusPublic health experts have welcomed the move by the central government to ban the use of tobacco products and spitting in public places to ...
- Covid-19 lockdown the perfect time to get rid of tobacco addiction, say oncologists; urge people to follow govt rulesThe Union Health Ministry had last month asked all states to prohibit the use and spitting of smokeless tobacco.
- Quitline no, enhanced warnings on tobacco packs from SeptThe Health Ministry issued a notification yesterday making amendments on using the new warnings and including the quitline number.
- Tobacco use in India down from 34.6% of adult population to 28.6%Also, there is an increase of one year in the mean age at initiation of tobacco use from 17.9 years in 2009-10 to 18.9 years in 2016-17, th...
- 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...
- 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.
- WHO lauds India for anti-smoking mechanismsThe World Health Organisation today lauded India's tobacco control mechanisms, calling the country a "champion" for curbing "tobacco market...
- India, Bangladesh have 80 per cent smokeless tobacco usersThe report says that there is sufficient evidence to conclude that smokeless tobacco causes oral cancer, esophageal cancer and pancreatic c...
- Multi-sectoral policies needed for tobacco-free society: PM Manmohan SinghNoting that use of tobacco imposes serious consequences on economy and society, PM Manmohan Singh said.
- New law about tougher warning about tobacco goes into forceThe new law making it mandatory for all tobacco products to carry stricter pictorial warnings came into force today but its implementation ...
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