Chandigarh: Punjab on Monday ordered a complete ban on the sale, storage, manufacture and distribution of tobacco-based products, gutka (tobacco-laced areca nut pieces) and pan masala in the state, an official said.
Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal had approved the proposal of the state health and family welfare department for banning such products across the state, he said.
"This has been done in the larger interest of public health. The chewing of gutka, pan masala and other tobacco products was a potent health hazard and responsible for deadly disease of cancer especially of mouth and throat," he added.
He said that other food products containing tobacco or nicotine as ingredients, by whatsoever name, had also been banned.
These products were earlier banned only in the districts of Amritsar, Ropar, Mohali and Mansa as these have famous religious shrines.
Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal had approved the proposal of the state health and family welfare department for banning such products across the state, he said.
"This has been done in the larger interest of public health. The chewing of gutka, pan masala and other tobacco products was a potent health hazard and responsible for deadly disease of cancer especially of mouth and throat," he added.
These products were earlier banned only in the districts of Amritsar, Ropar, Mohali and Mansa as these have famous religious shrines.
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