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'It is strange that government promotes products which directly cause cancer'
@kundanmcu Issue Date: May 10, 2013
How serious is the problem of tobacco consumption in India?
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Pankaj Chaturvedi
Letters - December 15, 2012
Issue Date: Dec 15, 2012
Leave Them Alone
This is with reference to the article, “Tourism in Jarawa buffer, officially” (November 16-30, 2012). The Andaman and Nicobar Islands have been home to several distinct tribes for tens of thousands of years. But the administration, first the British and later the Indian government, brought nothing but disaster for the tribes. Only the Sentinelese tribe remains untouched by the devastation due to their isolated location and aggressive behaviour towards outsiders.
Ads term gutkha ban unfair
Issue Date: Nov 15, 2012
THE photographed ad on this page is one of the many ads that has been appearing in leading print and electronic media of the country since September. Issued by the gutkha industry, the ads term the ban on the chewing tobacco unfair and question why the government has not banned cigarette.
Health ministry fumes over ads terming gutkha ban unfair
Issue Date: Oct 18, 2012
Advertisements issued by gutkha (a form of chewing tobacco) industry in the print and electronic media, terming the ban on it as unfair, has angered the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW). The ministry has called the advertisements misleading and unjustified. It is also planning to take strict action against the industry for publishing such misleading information.
Bihar bans gutkha on World No Tobacco Day
Issue Date: May 31, 2012
Following the lead of Madhya Pradesh and Kerala, Bihar has now banned gutkha, chewing tobacco. The announcement to this effect was made on May 31, also celebrated as World No Tobacco Day.
Kerala becomes second state to ban chewing tobacco
Issue Date: May 25, 2012
After Madhya Pradesh, Kerala has now become the second state in India to ban all forms of chewing tobacco products.
Madhya Pradesh bans gutkha and other chewing tobacco products
Issue Date: Apr 3, 2012
Concerned over increasing cases of mouth cancer in the state, the Madhya Pradesh government has banned all chewing tobacco products like gutkha from April 1. In three days tobacco worth over Rs 38 lakh and 26 lakh pouches was confiscated.
Earlier in March, health minister Narottam Mishra had announced in the state assembly that licences of two gutkha manufacturing companies, Rajshree gutkha and Guru gutkha, had been cancelled and no new company making chewing tobacco would be allowed to set base in the state.
Centre bans gutkha
Issue Date: Aug 31, 2011
The government of India has banned the sale of gutkha and other chewing tobacco products across the country. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) issued new regulations on August 1, prohibiting the use of tobacco and nicotine in any edible product. Health experts and civil society groups have cautiously welcomed the ban. After all, the gutkha industry has circumvented several such ban orders issued by states and the Centre earlier.
