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

Tobacco use by adults below 25 may soon become illegal

Government mulls changes in law to prevent surrogate ads by tobacco companies

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

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

Centre directs states to restrict advertisement, promotion of tobacco products

Move follows Supreme Court vacating stay on rules regulating tobacco advertisement and distribution

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

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, …

Madhya Pradesh bans gutkha and other chewing tobacco products

Licences of two gutkha manufacturing companies were cancelled in March