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Telangana State BC Commission Chairman V Krishna Mohan Rao urged youth to stay away from it as it was hazardous to health and destroyed the entire family

Public health groups, health economists and doctors have urged the Centre to increase excise duty on all tobacco products including cigarettes

Hyderabad: Doctors, public health groups and cancer victims urged the government to strengthen the tobacco control laws to reduce the consumption of tobacco and prevalence of cancer cases considering recommendation of 139th report of Parliamentary Standing Committee of Health and Family Welfare. Tobacco is the leading cause of cancer cases. The use of tobacco is […]

Hyderabad: The Vikarabad District Task Force caught four persons on charges of selling banned tobacco products and adulterated tea powder in Kodangal on Wednesday. In one case, K Kashinath (34), from Ravulapalli village was selling adulterated tea powder and gutkha. Five kg of adulterated tea powder and gutkha products worth Rs 3,000 were seized from […]

Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Commissioner’s Task Force (south) team along with Sultan Bazaar police raided a shop at MJ Market and seized huge quantity of material used in manufacturing of cigarettes from the place. According to the police, on a tip off, the team raided the place and caught one person Mohd Siddiq, who is incharge […]

Hyderabad: Over 500 youths including youth associations across the country have urged the Prime Minister and Finance Minister to increase taxes on all tobacco products in the upcoming budget of 2022-23. In their appeals, they urged to increase excise duty on cigarettes, beedis and smokeless tobacco. The appeal came on the eve of National Youth […]

Lucknow: A Global Young Tobacco Survey by the World Health Organisation has found that one in every three students below the high school level in Uttar Pradesh consume tobacco in some form or the other. Seeking a safe place, 37.4 per cent students smoke at their own home while 19.8 per cent do so at […]

Hyderabad: Despite the warnings written on the pack, many people choose to not only chew pan, tobacco, gutkha, khaini or pan masala, but they also spit it publically on the roads or even inside buses. Taking note of such incidents, Managing Director of Telangana State Road Transport Corporation, V C Sajjanar has warned the staff […]

Hyderabad: Chairman of National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, representatives from retailers’ association, global and local experts have appealed to the Government of India to strengthen the national tobacco control law in order to protect the youth from taking up tobacco use. The experts urged the government that increasing legal age of sale of […]

The police seized property worth Rs. 25,000 from the arrested persons identified as Ahmed Pasha (30) and A Srihari (49)

According to the government spokesman, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare had sent an advisory letter to all the state governments recommending the licensing of tobacco vendors to the municipal corporation.

According to WHO, tobacco kills more than 8 million people every year, of which at least 7 million are the direct result of tobacco use, whereas about 1.2 million are exposed to second-hand smoke.

Mancherial: Large quantities of banned tobacco products were seized when police raided a warehouse of a trader here on Sunday. Mancherial Assistant Commissioner of Police Akhil Mahajan said that the police led by Mancherial Inspector Mutti Lingaiah had seized prohibited tobacco products worth Rs 2.90 lakh at a warehouse belonging to Aditya Enterprises of the […]

Shops permitted to sell tobacco products cannot sell non-tobacco products such as toffees, candies, chips, biscuits, soft drinks, among others, which are meant for the non-users, especially children.

Additionally, 58 Hospital Based Cancer Registries (HBCRs) provided cancer data, a press release issued here on Thursday said.

In the India Cigarette Tax Scorecard, India got an overall score of 1.88 out of five possible points, which is slightly better than the South-East Asia average of 1.82.