Progress in reducing tobacco use is a key indicator for measuring countries’ efforts to implement the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control – target 3.a under the Sustainable Development Goals agenda.
New Delhi: For Sunder Lal, a 32-year-old auto driver who consumes 10-15 packets of gutka every day, the ban has come as a shocker. He says it is hard to kick the habit and he may have to fall back on products
A city-based advocate has sought a Madras High Court direction to the State government to prohibit the manufacture and sale of tobacco and nicotine consumable products, including pan masala and gutka, in the interest of public health. In the public interest litigation, P.T.Geotom of George Town said tobacco was used by nearly 1.1 billion people and up to one-third of the adult population in the world. The WHO had said that tobacco consumption was the leading preventable cause of death. Tobacco consumption caused 5.4 million deaths per year. In India, there were nearly 275 million tobacco users and every year about one million people died.
The ban would bring with it several qualitative changes in the health, economic spending and the environment A comprehensive ban on sale, stocking, production and distribution of gutka in Gujarat will come into effect from tomorrow on September 12. The announcement of the ban was made by Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Independence Day last month. “I have to save the youths of Gujarat, from the dreaded evil of cancer and that’s why a decision to impose a complete ban on gutka has been taken,” Modi had said while making the announcement on August 15 in Junagadh.
Notification banning manufacture, sale, transportation & storage to be issued today The Delhi Government has decided to impose a complete ban on manufacture, sale, display, transportation and storage of gutka and other related products in the city. Health Minister A. K. Walia said on Monday that the decision was taken at a high-level meeting at Delhi Secretariat and a notification to this effect will be issued on Tuesday. “Gutka and other products contain paan masala, nicotine and tobacco particles, hence are harmful.
New Delhi: Putting health over revenue, the Delhi government on Monday announced a ban on all gutka products in the capital. The ban, which includes sale, manufacture, distribution, transportation, display
Ahmedabad: A comprehensive ban on production and sale of gutka will come into effect in Gujarat on Tuesday, as per the notification issued by the state government. Chief minister Narendra Modi, during his Independence Day address, had announced complete ban on gutka from September 11. However, there is a catch in the notification issued: sale of gutka will be prohibited, but one would be free to sell separately tobacco, beetle nut and lime separately.
This is the State’s second attempt to ban the carcinogenic substance Tamil Nadu is considering a proposal to ban gutka and pan masala throughout the State. This is the State’s second attempt to ban the carcinogenic substance. The State Tobacco Control Cell has submitted the proposal, and it is being processed at the highest level, official sources said. It was as early as in 2001 that the first attempt was made to ban these products.
The Union government on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that it would soon come out with a gazette notification allowing the film industry to incorporate smoking scenes with statutory warnings alongside. The new rules advise filmmakers to give a 20-second antismoking message as approved by the Health Ministry — with a voice-over of one of the actors seen smoking — to be displayed at the beginning and after intermission. Additionally, a static message would have to be displayed for the duration of the smoking scene.
New Delhi: It is often viewed as a healthier alternative to a ‘real’ smoke. But electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) have now been found to be as harmful for your lungs. A new study, presented at the European
NewDelhi:The Delhi government is set to ban sale, manufacturing, distribution and storage of all gutka products in the city by next week. After giving a verbal undertaking to the Delhi high court last
