India to be the only south-east Asian country to achieve smoking reduction target by 2025
Globally, only 24 countries seem to be achieving WHO's 2025 target of reducing global prevalence of tobacco use by 30 per cent
Chewing tobacco products: Storehouse of toxic chemicals
Indian scientists have prepared a database of toxic substances found in different chewing tobacco products sold not only in India and South Asia …
Tobacco products will continue to have 85% pictorial warning as SC stays Karnataka court order
The Supreme Court also dismissed the industry’s plea that the package warning be increased from 40 per cent to 50 per cent and not 85 per cent
Only four countries making full efforts to end smoking: WHO
Netherlands, Mauritius join Brazil and Turkey in implementing all recommended measures to reduce tobacco smoking globally
Odisha follows in the footsteps of states that have banned gutkha
More than 43 per cent people in the state consume tobacco in one form or other
Health ministry fumes over ads terming gutkha ban unfair
Calls them misleading and unjustified
Delhi government decides to ban gutkha
Notification to be issued shortly
Bihar bans gutkha on World No Tobacco Day
The ban is already successful in Madhya Pradesh and Kerala
Madhya Pradesh bans gutkha and other chewing tobacco products
Licences of two gutkha manufacturing companies were cancelled in March