Anti-tobacco Campaign

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  Haryana Colleges, Universities To Become Tobacco-Free: Manohar Lal Khattar

  The Haryana government will be starting a new anti-tobacco drive in colleges and universities from January 26, 2021. Various authorities will be trying to make the students aware about harmful impacts of tobacco and discourage its usage.

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  Students Can't Accept Prizes Or Scholarships From Tobacco Firms: Health Ministry

  Educational institutions and students should not also accept any prize or scholarship instituted by such firms, the Ministry stated.

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  Hotels For COP7 Guests Declared 'Tobacco-Free' By Delhi Government

  Three prominent hotels in the national capital, where the delegates of the ongoing anti-tobacco conference COP7 are staying, have been declared 'tobacco-free', in line with the Delhi government's campaign against its consumption.

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  Philippines Set To Roll Out Tough No-Smoking Law

  Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is set to sign a regulation this month banning smoking in public across Southeast Asia's second-most populous country, rolling out among the toughest anti-tobacco laws in the region.

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  North Korean Anti-Tobacco Push Up In Smoke As Kim Jong-Un Keeps Puffing

  A North Korean anti-smoking campaign has apparently failed to persuade young leader Kim Jong-Un to quit, despite his late father's warning that "a cigarette is like a gun aiming at your heart".

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  Government Delays Implementation of Bigger Tobacco Pack Warnings

  Anti-tobacco campaigners question the panel's decision to delay implementing bigger warnings, pointing out that one member of the committee owns a tobacco company. Two members have said there is no link between tobacco and cancer.

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  Away From Controversies, a 13-Year-Old Suffers the Effects of Beedis. She Rolls Them.

  Beedis are affecting Afsana's health, say doctors. She says she feels drugged and giddy and her heads hurts. The 13-year-old does not smoke beedis, she rolls them. A 1000 for Rs 45.

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  Shiv Sena's Dig at PM Narendra Modi: Use Broom to Clean Filth Spoken by Your Lawmakers

  Slamming the BJP's silence over its MP Dilip Gandhi's controversial comment supporting tobacco, the Shiv Sena today took a jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying he has taken a broom to clean dirt from roads, but who will clean the "garbage spilling out from people's mouths".

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  Did Attend a Meeting of Group of Ministers on Tobacco Under UPA, But Dissociated Myself From It: Praful Patel to NDTV

  Facing criticism for his own conflict of interest as part of a Group of Ministers (GoM) on tobacco under the UPA government in 2010, former Union Minister and NCP leader Praful Patel has told NDTV that he did attend a meeting of the Group but then dissociated himself from it, because of his family's beedi business.

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  Sunita Tomar, Face of Anti-Tobacco Campaign, Dies at 28

  Sunita Tomar, the face of India's anti-tobacco campaign, died on Wednesday morning after her cancer which was treated in 2013, relapsed. She was 28.

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  Gul Panag: Youth involvement critical to success of any movement

  Gul Panag has launched an anti-tobacco campaign - No more tobacco in 21st Century - and urged the youth to wholeheartedly participate in the cause to make it a success.

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  Rahul Dravid bats for anti-tobacco campaign

  The Wall has stood up for India many times on the cricket field when the chips were down. He now stands up for a cause to control production and consumption of tobacco in India.

• Singer Shaan appointed anti-tobacco brand ambassador

  Bollywood playback Singer Shaan was today appointed the ambassador of anti-tobacco campaign.

• Shaan Turns Ambassador For Anti-Tobacco Campaign

  Singer Shaan will be seen singing on television for an advertisement aimed at discouraging youths from tobacco consumption.