Tag: tobacco products
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Need to tighten tobacco control
The 17 years of working of COTPA was useful to a certain extent in defying the tobacco industry’s tactics to advertise and promote tobacco use in India. However, in spite of the Government’s best efforts to effectively enforce the law and civil society’s efforts to ensure that violations are adequately reported, the industry has been able to target, especially children, through their indirect promotion tactics.
February 22, 2021 -
New packaging rules: These pics will force you to quit tobacco!
Health warnings will include telephone Quit-line number “Quit Today, Call 1800-11-2356” on packets of all forms of tobacco products.
April 5, 2018 -
Ban tobacco products outside schools: PIL in Delhi HC
The Delhi High Court today sought the response of the Centre and city government on a PIL seeking to enforce a complete ban on sale of tobacco and cigarettes near educational institutions in the national capital. A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar also issued notice to the governments’ …
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October 9, 2017 -
UAE begins collecting ‘sin’ taxes on tobacco, energy drinks
The United Arab Emirates has begun collecting new “sin” taxes on tobacco products, energy drinks and soft drinks. Beginning today, tobacco and energy drinks will be taxed at 100 per cent and soft drinks at 50 per cent. Shoppers could be seen stocking up the day before. The new tax push comes as the UAE …
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October 1, 2017 -
90% cigar products comply with pictorial warnings in Assam
Ninety per cent of the cigarette products sold across Assam comply with the new rule mandating 85 per cent of package surface area to carry pictorial health warning on tobacco packets, according to a recent survey. The survey found that all leading brands of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco and bidis sold across Assam follow the …
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September 20, 2016