Tobacco Selling

The law would ban the selling of tobacco products to anyone born after January 1, 2009 - effectively raising the smoking age by a year each year until it applies to the whole population.

A 27-year-old man from Mumbai has earned eye-popping Rs 49.14 lakh by selling banned gutkha and other tobacco products during the lockdown period, police said on Saturday.

Children and adolescents are being bombarded with ads on social media promoting harmful products from fast food to tobacco and alcohol, according to a United Nations-backed report on Wednesday that called for regulation.

In an effort to curb the consumption of tobacco among students and teenagers, the Union Health Ministry on Thursday asked all the state governments to develop systems under which all tobacco-selling shops would need due authorization from local municipal bodies for selling tobacco products and would be barred from selling other non-tobacco products...

Young girls, in particular, form the biggest market for the narcotic, called Spice or K2 or synthetic weed. Peddlers sell it to them with the promise that it will not be detected in drug tests, allowing users to remain above suspicion.

When I think of cigars, I think of endless tobacco fields and warehouses where the leaves dry. I think of open-air factories where dozens of "rollers" hand-make the cigars under the soft rotation of overhead fans while "lectors" - readers - help workers pass the time by reading aloud from newspapers and books.

Within two years of a new alcohol police in Kerala - which allows only 5-stars and govt outlets to sell hard liquor - doctors have demanded a crackdown on tobacco products.

Keeping tobacco products out of view in convenience stores may significantly reduce teenagers' susceptibility to future cigarette use, a new study has found.

Delhi High Court has admitted a PIL which sought a ban on smoking in court complex and removal of all shops selling tobacco and cigarette there citing ill-effects on health and contending that people cannot be "subjected to become passive smokers".

Tobacco major ITC came under sharp selling pressure on Thursday, and languished at the bottom of the 50-share Nifty with over 2 per cent cut.

British lawmakers today voted in favour of forcing tobacco firms to sell cigarettes in plain packaging despite fierce opposition from the industry.

ITC and other tobacco companies such as Godfrey Phillips and VST Industries had come under sharp selling pressure last month after the health ministry accepted an expert panel's proposal to ban loose cigarettes to deter smoking.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) on Monday slapped a penalty of Rs 5 lakh on an executive of diversified group ITC Ltd for failing to make disclosures about her shareholding after selling over Rs 35 lakh worth shares of the company last year.

US regulator FDA has warned two websites selling 'bidis' and Indian cigarettes of strict penal action for sale of adulterated tobacco products in America.

India's biggest cigarette maker is going on a health kick. ITC Ltd sells 80 percent of the cigarettes in the world's second most populous country where 275 million people use tobacco products.

The law would ban the selling of tobacco products to anyone born after January 1, 2009 - effectively raising the smoking age by a year each year until it applies to the whole population.

A 27-year-old man from Mumbai has earned eye-popping Rs 49.14 lakh by selling banned gutkha and other tobacco products during the lockdown period, police said on Saturday.

Children and adolescents are being bombarded with ads on social media promoting harmful products from fast food to tobacco and alcohol, according to a United Nations-backed report on Wednesday that called for regulation.

In an effort to curb the consumption of tobacco among students and teenagers, the Union Health Ministry on Thursday asked all the state governments to develop systems under which all tobacco-selling shops would need due authorization from local municipal bodies for selling tobacco products and would be barred from selling other non-tobacco products...

Young girls, in particular, form the biggest market for the narcotic, called Spice or K2 or synthetic weed. Peddlers sell it to them with the promise that it will not be detected in drug tests, allowing users to remain above suspicion.

When I think of cigars, I think of endless tobacco fields and warehouses where the leaves dry. I think of open-air factories where dozens of "rollers" hand-make the cigars under the soft rotation of overhead fans while "lectors" - readers - help workers pass the time by reading aloud from newspapers and books.

Within two years of a new alcohol police in Kerala - which allows only 5-stars and govt outlets to sell hard liquor - doctors have demanded a crackdown on tobacco products.

Keeping tobacco products out of view in convenience stores may significantly reduce teenagers' susceptibility to future cigarette use, a new study has found.

Delhi High Court has admitted a PIL which sought a ban on smoking in court complex and removal of all shops selling tobacco and cigarette there citing ill-effects on health and contending that people cannot be "subjected to become passive smokers".

Tobacco major ITC came under sharp selling pressure on Thursday, and languished at the bottom of the 50-share Nifty with over 2 per cent cut.

British lawmakers today voted in favour of forcing tobacco firms to sell cigarettes in plain packaging despite fierce opposition from the industry.

ITC and other tobacco companies such as Godfrey Phillips and VST Industries had come under sharp selling pressure last month after the health ministry accepted an expert panel's proposal to ban loose cigarettes to deter smoking.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) on Monday slapped a penalty of Rs 5 lakh on an executive of diversified group ITC Ltd for failing to make disclosures about her shareholding after selling over Rs 35 lakh worth shares of the company last year.

US regulator FDA has warned two websites selling 'bidis' and Indian cigarettes of strict penal action for sale of adulterated tobacco products in America.

India's biggest cigarette maker is going on a health kick. ITC Ltd sells 80 percent of the cigarettes in the world's second most populous country where 275 million people use tobacco products.