Tobacco use by adults below 25 may soon become illegal
Government mulls changes in law to prevent surrogate ads by tobacco companies
Rajasthan, Jammu and Kashmir hike VAT on tobacco products
Increase in tax in previous years decreased tobacco consumption in Rajasthan
Maharshtra mulls making sale of gutkha non-bailable offence
Penal action proposed against consumers to ensure strict implementation of gutkha ban
Andhra bans gutkha, paan masala
Becomes 17th state in country to impose ban on them
Your toothpaste may cause cancer
A study finds nicotine dental products contain nicotine
Madhya Pradesh bans gutkha and other chewing tobacco products
Licences of two gutkha manufacturing companies were cancelled in March
Supreme Court orders tobacco industry to comply with bigger health warning rules
The new rules make it mandatory for tobacco companies to cover 85 per cent of the packet surface with health warnings
Number of tobacco users continues to decrease globally: WHO
However, several countries are still not adequately implementing policies to help tobacco users to quit, the WHO said
How a smoking cessation aid circumvents challenges of tobacco harm reduction
Governments should regulate ENDS either as Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) or under a special act, instead of banning them altogether
Your cigarette continues to harm environment long after it is extinguished
Tobacco kills more than seven million people a year and is currently the world’s single biggest cause of preventable death
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
SC upbraids Centre for 'conniving with tobacco industry'
Directs it to effectively implement rules that severely restrict advertisement, promotion and sponsorship of tobacco products
Parliamentary panel recommends reduction of pictorial warnings on tobacco products
The committee has taken the decision in view of the possible loss of livelihood of bidi workers and the increase in illicit trade of tobacco products
Tax hiked on tobacco products for human and fiscal health
Economic cost of diseases caused by tobacco is 12 per cent more than the money spent by Centre and state together on healthcare in India, says a study
World No Tobacco Day: Tobacco farming adding to global food crisis, says WHO
Growing sustainable crops can help address acute global food insecurity, governments urged to stop tobacco farming subsidies
Centre directs states to restrict advertisement, promotion of tobacco products
Move follows Supreme Court vacating stay on rules regulating tobacco advertisement and distribution
Air India admonished for sale, promotion of e-cigarettes aboard flights
Airline has flouted COTPA law, which prohibits all direct and indirect advertisement of cigarettes and tobacco products
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
Pictorial warnings still missing from cigarette and chewing tobacco packets
No tobacco product sampled in Delhi had new warning mandated from April 1, says survey by non-profit
Attractive cigarette packs may go up in smoke
India might follow in Australia’s footsteps to enforce plain packaging for tobacco products
‘Mass media campaigns can curb tobacco consumption significantly’
Tobacco is the leading cause of heart diseases among the young. Nandita Murukutla, country director (India) of non-profit World Lung Foundation, …