Tobacco
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India needs comprehensive tax policy for curbing tobacco use: WHO
India | Mar 22, 2015, 12:29 PM ISTKolkata: India needs to draft a comprehensive tax policy for all tobacco products if it wants to cut down the easy access to the plethora of low-cost and locally produced tobacco products available in the
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Delhi govt to ban sale of chewable tobacco products soon
India | Mar 12, 2015, 08:35 AM ISTNew Delhi: The Delhi government has decided to strengthen the anti-tobacco law to ensure ban sale and storage of raw chewable tobacco and other products like gutkha, khaini and zarda.The city government will soon be
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PHFI calls for increasing tax on 'bidi', oral tobacco products
Mar 06, 2015, 07:56 AM ISTNew Delhi: A public health organisation yesterday called for raising taxation levels for 'bidis' and oral tobacco products to deter people of low income group including women and young from using them as the organisation
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Centre for raising age of person buying tobacco products to 21 years
India | Jan 14, 2015, 08:04 AM ISTNew Delhi: Brushing aside opposition, the government on Tuesday moved to amend the anti-smoking law and proposed radical changes, including ban on sale of loose cigarettes and raising the minimum age of a person buying
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Gutka ban is good for India's youth: WHO study
India | Dec 22, 2014, 08:04 AM ISTThiruvananthapuram: State-level laws banning "gutka" - a form of chewing tobacco - are having a positive impact on Indian youths, according to a study by WHO.The World Health Organization (WHO) study was conducted in Assam,
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Ban on gutka has positive impact: WHO
World | Dec 17, 2014, 11:26 AM ISTMumbai: Stringent state-level laws banning gutka have a positive impact as reduced product availability has resulted in decreased consumption of gutka, according to World Health Organisation (WHO).In a study conducted by the WHO in seven
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Liquor, tobacco products now cost more in Kerala
India | Oct 10, 2014, 02:49 PM ISTThiruvananthapuram: The price of liquor went up in Kerala on Friday after the government, in its bid to enforce total prohibition, imposed an additional 25 percent tax.Also, an eight percent tax hike on tobacco products
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Modi asks countrymen to say 'no' to tobacco
Jun 01, 2014, 06:39 PM ISTNew Delhi: On the occasion of World Tobacco Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today asked the countrymen to say ‘no' to tobacco and lay the foundation of a healthier India.“On World No Tobacco Day, lets
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74 per cent children in Kerala use tobacco, reveals study
India | Feb 27, 2014, 05:06 PM ISTThiruvananthapuram: Seventy-four per cent children in Kerala use tobacco, according to a recent multi-site survey conducted by National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences.A total of 119 children in
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Shocking: Half of Delhi's school kids consuming tobacco
India | Feb 20, 2014, 06:41 AM ISTNew Delhi: Is your child suffering from depression or stress? Have you ever asked your child the reason for his/her dejection? Parents now need to be cautious of what their child does the whole day
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10 warnings India and the world ignored before millions died
India | Nov 13, 2013, 07:07 AM ISTNew Delhi: Whether it was a major terrorist mayhem, or an emerging brutal dictator, or a major health warning, or a gruesome natural disaster, warnings were ignored by India and the world at their own
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Health dept suggests increase tax on Tobacco
India | Aug 29, 2013, 07:01 PM ISTBhubaneswar: The Health and Family Welfare department of Government of Odisha has suggested for increase in tax on Tobacco expressing concern over the health hazards.Health and Family welfare (H&FW) department secretary in a letter to
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Maharashtra budget: Liquor, tobacco, cosmetics costlier
India | Mar 20, 2013, 05:20 PM ISTMumbai, Mar 20: Maharashtra Finance Minister Ajit Pawar today presented the state budget for 2013-14, hiking sales tax on liquor, tobacco and medicated cosmetics. Country liquor will be costlier by Rs 15 per litre, while
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India slips 23 places in pictorial campaign against tobacco
India | Nov 15, 2012, 08:31 PM ISTNew Delhi, Nov 15: India has been ranked 123 among 193 countries in an international biennial report on pictorial health warning campaign against use of tobacco products - slipping 23 places behind its 100th rank
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Maharashtra govt to file caveat in HC over gutkha ban
India | Jul 12, 2012, 08:59 PM ISTMumbai, Jul 12: Maharashtra government is going to file a caveat in the Bombay High Court, so that it can present its case before the court if anybody tries to seek a stay to the
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Incredible India! Around 95 Percent Families Of A Village Trapped In Life Of Bidi Rolling In West Bengal
India | Mar 18, 2012, 12:12 PM ISTDhuliyan (West Bengal), Mar 18: Sagira Ansari sits on a dusty sack outside her uneven brick home in this poor town in eastern India, her legs folded beneath her. She cracks her knuckles, then rubs
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Cricket Australia Pulls Hindi Ads
Cricket | Feb 07, 2012, 12:11 PM ISTMelbourne, Feb 7: Cricket Australia could face heavy fines for using Hindi-script advertisements which potentially breach laws prohibiting the promotion of tobacco during seven matches against India.The advertisements, for an Indian brand of mouthwash, featured