Bombay HC upholds ban on gutka, pan masala
September 17th, 2012 - 11:03 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Sep 15 (IANS) In a major victory for the Maharashtra government, the Bombay High Court Saturday upheld its decision to ban tobacco flavoured gutka and pan masala in the ... Read more...
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Chandy writes to Jayalalithaa on smuggling of tobacco products
September 5th, 2012 - 5:17 pm ICT by IANS
Thiruvananthapuram, Sep 5 (IANS) Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has sought help from his counterpart in Tamil Nadu, J. Jayalalithaa to see that smuggling of tobacco products from either state ... Read more...
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Jharkhand bans sale, manufacturing of gutka
July 24th, 2012 - 7:30 pm ICT by IANS
Ranchi, July 24 (IANS) The Jharkhand government Tuesday banned manufacture, storage, distribution and sale of 'gutka' (tobacco-laced areca nut pieces) in the state, said an official.The Jharkhand cabinet meeting chaired ... Read more...
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Uttarakhand is biggest tobacco consumer in north: Survey
July 21st, 2012 - 12:29 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) Uttarakhand has earned the dubious distinction of being the state with highest consumption of tobacco products, followed by Jammu and Kashmir, according to a survey ... Read more...
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Himachal defers ban on gutka till October
July 17th, 2012 - 5:48 pm ICT by IANS
Shimla, July 17 (IANS) Less than a week after imposing a blanket ban on the manufacture, storage and sale of 'gutka' (tobacco paan masala) and its variants in the state, ... Read more...
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Tobacco ads everywhere, why isolate Metro: DMRC
June 6th, 2012 - 4:02 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 6 (IANS) Reacting to a letter by an anti-tobacco advocacy group on display of tobacco advertisements at various Metro stations in the capital, the Delhi Metro Rail ... Read more...
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Remove tobacco ads from Metro: NGO tells DMRC
June 1st, 2012 - 4:25 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 1 (IANS) An anti-tobacco advocacy group, raising concern over display of tobacco product advertisements in Delhi Metro, has asked the DMRC chief to take them off."Indirect/surrogate advertisements ... Read more...
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New carcinogen in smokeless tobacco identified
April 27th, 2012 - 6:18 pm ICT by IANS
Thiruvananthapuram, April 27 (IANS) It is bad news for those Malayalis who use smokeless tobacco -- in the form of 'gutka' and similar products -- as a research in ... Read more...
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Law on anti-tobacco warnings ignored in two states: Study
February 16th, 2012 - 7:52 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 16 (IANS) Nearly two months after the deadline for printing harsher, coloured pictorial health warnings on packs of tobacco products, a study in Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat ... Read more...
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Mainpuri tobacco causing cancer?
January 28th, 2012 - 12:56 pm ICT by IANS
Agra, Jan 28 (IANS) Pakistan's Sindh province is reported to have banned the "Mainpuri tambakoo". And Indian doctors and activists too are talking of an alarming rise in the number ... Read more...
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Chewing tobacco joins ‘banned foods’ as oral cancer cases rise
September 2nd, 2011 - 7:37 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 2 (IANS) Chewing tobacco, like gutka and paan masala, has been included among banned "food products" in the government's new food safety guidelines. The move has been ... Read more...
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Is tobacco plastic sachet ban being implemented, SC asks
August 25th, 2011 - 8:40 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 25 (IANS) More than five months after the ban on the use of plastic pouches to pack chewing tobacco and pan masala came into effect, the Supreme ... Read more...
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Smuggled Indian pan masala poses cancer threat to Africa
July 28th, 2011 - 11:24 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 28 (IANS) African teenagers, especially school kids, are addicted to Indian 'gutka' and pan masala smuggled into their countries, an Indian health ministry official said here Thursday, ... Read more...
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11 chief ministers pledge support against tobacco
July 19th, 2011 - 8:31 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 19 (IANS) Chief ministers of 11 states, on persuasion of patients of oral cancer, have pledged their support to ban against tobacco products, a statement said Tuesday.According ... Read more...
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Cancer victim writes to PM for ban on tobacco products
June 1st, 2011 - 8:41 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 1 (IANS) A 35-year-old cancer victim has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pleading with him to impose a ban on tobacco products such as gutka ... Read more...
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Supreme Court refuses to lift ban on tobacco sachets (Lead)
April 14th, 2011 - 12:24 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 13 (IANS) The Supreme Court Wednesday declined to lift a ban on the sale of tobacco products in plastic sachets and asked the central government to file ... Read more...
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Plastic gutka sachets banned, really?
March 6th, 2011 - 5:46 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 6 (IANS) On a lazy afternoon in the Delhi University area, 19-year-old Naresh Singh is whiling away his break at a cigarette shop. As he leisurely chews ... Read more...
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Deadline for ban on gutka in plastic sachet stays (Lead)
February 17th, 2011 - 11:24 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 17 (IANS) In a setback for chewing tobacco manufacturers, the Supreme Court Thursday declined to extend the March 1 deadline banning the marketing of tobacco products in plastic sachets.An ... Read more...
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Man shot dead in North Delhi
January 29th, 2011 - 12:38 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 28 (IANS) Two unidentified people shot dead a 32-year-old man in North Delhi Friday evening. The victim has been identified as Kapil, a resident of Gonda in ... Read more...
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Over 90 pc street kids in Karachi are drug addicts: Study
December 20th, 2010 - 3:10 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Dec 20 (ANI): A new study has revealed that over 90 percent of the estimated 30,000 street children in Karachi are addicted to different drugs.A study by an NGO, working on ... Read more...
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New pictorial warnings on tobacco products in effect
December 2nd, 2010 - 12:53 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 1(IANS) Tobacco products in the country must carry a new set of pictorial warnings depicting a cancer-stricken mouth from Dec 1, a notification by the ministry of health ... Read more...
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No smoking: Gory pictures pull in, shock trade fair visitors
November 18th, 2010 - 3:24 pm ICT by IANS
By Madhulika Sonkar
New Delhi, Nov 18 (IANS) Positioned in a secluded corner of Hall No. 1 of Pragati Maidan here, gory pictures of mutilated lips, disfigured mouths and lungs are forcing many ... Read more...
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School kids taking to smoking, chewing gutka: NGO
September 30th, 2010 - 11:53 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 30 (IANS) In a worrying trend, more students in the age group 10-14 are taking to smoking and girls are increasingly getting hooked to the habit, said an NGO ... Read more...
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Smoking rises in Karachi’s girls schools
June 2nd, 2010 - 2:30 pm ICT by IANS
Karachi, June 2 (IANS) Sixteen percent of students in Karachi's girls schools smoke, a habit that annually causes some 100,000 deaths in Pakistan, says a leading health official.
"According to recent research, smoking ... Read more...
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Government to frame policy for chewing tobacco companies
April 7th, 2010 - 7:08 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 7 (IANS) The government will come down heavily on chewing tobacco manufacturers and frame a policy against its widespread consumption in India, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said Wednesday.
"Chewing ... Read more...
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Urvashi Sharma in love with gutka king’s son?
February 3rd, 2010 - 8:24 pm ICT by Sampurn Wire
Feb 3, 2010 (Sampurn Wire): "Naqaab' actress Urvashi Sharma hasn't been seen in a film for a while now. The development in her love life seems to be the reason behind ... Read more...
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Bidi companies violating order on pictorial warnings: study
July 20th, 2009 - 9:26 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) More than six weeks have passed since the new rules on pictorial warnings on tobacco products came into force but bidi and gutka companies are openly violating ... Read more...
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Warnings on fake cigarette packs to campaign against tobacco
May 25th, 2008 - 5:44 pm ICT by admin
New Delhi, May 25 (IANS) Fake cigarette packets with pictorial warnings and a public lighter which can be used only after ringing a "bell to hell" are some of the initiatives of ... Read more...
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High court quashes Chhattisgarh’s ban on chewing tobacco sale
February 29th, 2008 - 12:55 pm ICT by admin
Raipur, Feb 29 (IANS) After an almost two month long ban, gutka or chewing tobacco Friday returned with a bang to shops and kiosks in Chhattisgarh following a high court order. Vendors ... Read more...
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