Shimla today became the 11th district of the state to be declared smoke-free under Section 4 of COTPA (Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products - Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade a

Announcing the state capital of Himachal Pradesh as “smoke free” at a function organised here by by HP Voluntary Health Association and district administration, Deputy Commissioner Dinesh Malhotra

Kageri of BJP, a former minister is a key producer of arecanut

Karnataka government today said the ban on gutka would stay, rejecting the demand of the opposition BJP which argued that the move would hit arecanut growers in the State. At the end of a debate on the issue in the state Assembly, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said revoking the May 30 government notification would only benefit the gutka lobby and would not help the cause of curbing cancer cases. The ban is as per the Supreme Court order, he said,denying that it was a hasty decision.

Though India’s latest tobacco control step of mandating films with smoking scenes to carry statutory warnings introduced last year is hailed as one of the best practices under the World Health Orga

The Punjab Government today declared Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar, Gurdaspur and Fatehgarh Sahib as ‘tobacco-free’ districts.

Aizawl: Tobacco presently kills nearly six million people every year and the WHO estimated that the weed will take times of more than eight million by 2030.

BANGALORE: Gutka and paan masala containing tobacco and nicotine as ingredients have been banned in Karnataka.

Nearly a year after the Delhi Government imposed a ban on chewable tobacco products, including paan masala and gutkha in the capital, Health Minister Dr A K Walia said the government was still tryi

The Karnataka government on Friday announced the ban on the manufacture, storage, sale and distribution of gutka and pan masala containing tobacco or nicotine, as ingredients in the interest of pub

VARANASI: District health department is not holding any awareness programme to mark World No Tobacco Day on Friday.