Directors of 17 regional cancer treatment centres in India, including the Tata Memorial Centre (TMC), have recently written letters to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to ban smokeless tobacco products like gutkha. India has the highest number of oral cancer patients in the world with 75, 000 to 80,000 cases reported every year.
The consumption of gutkha has created serious health problems among the children of Guwahati. Experiences of both doctors, and parents pinpoint to children being afflicted with various diseases
The State unit of North Eastern Small Scale Industries Association (NESSIA), a top ranking industrial organisation of Assam State has come down heavily on the sale of gutkha and other tobacco related
The activists of the Rangiya unit of the Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuva Chatra Parishad (AJYCP), burnt 25 cartons of gutkha in Rangiya. They urged the authorities concerned to take necessary steps so that
With growing concerns over consumption of gutkha leading to serious health problems, the Assam State Health department, has started collecting samples of the same for laboratory analysis.
Year 2000: Gujarat Government bans sale of gutkha and tobacco products within 100-metre radius of educational institutions. Cut to year 2004. A WHO survey reveals that 17% of students in secondary
Joining the league of tobacco-free states, the Odisha government on Tuesday imposed a ban on the manufacture, sale and consumption of guthka in the state. “Rising up to its concern for healthy living of common people, the state government has decided to ban tobacco containing gutkha according to section 234 of the Food Safety and Standards (Prohibition and Restriction on Sales) Regulation, 2011,” Health and Family Welfare minister Damodar Rout said. He said, the Supreme Court and different high courts had earlier directed the states to slap such a ban as the nicotine-contained chewing masalas cause diseases like cancer.
Whatever the adverse consequences consumption of pan masala/gutkha may pose to public health, it is hard to see how the Supreme Court could have sustained the ban that Maharashtra and a few other
As the smoke clears over the Supreme Court directive that struck down the State-level ban on gutkha and pan masala - advocacy groups working in the health sector are hoping to convert a "setback"
The Union Health Ministry, in its efforts to push for a countrywide ban on edible products containing tobacco, has written to all states and Union territories pointing to a 1982 Allahabad High Court order
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked the city government to examine and decide in two weeks a plea to ban oral tobacco products like ghutka, supari, pan masala and zarda in Delhi. A division bench of
AHMEDABAD: A comprehensive ban on gutkha across the state from September 11 declared by the CM Narendra Modi might just be the panacea Ahmedabad needed to safeguard its youth from the jaws of death. Ahmedabad is the capital of oral cancers caused by tobacco consumption in India. Against the average prevalence of 40 per cent tobacco-related cancers (TRC) in India, the prevalence of TRC is Ahmedabad urban and rural population is a staggering 55 per cent, revealed figures.
The Directorate of Public Health and Preventive Medicine of the Tamil Nadu government has conveyed to former Union Minister and PMK leader Anbumani Ramadoss that the proposal for banning gutkha and paan masala in Tamil Nadu is under active consideration of the State government. Replying to the letter of the former Union Minister, director of Public Health said that appropriate action was being taken to ban these health hazardous tobacco products in the State.
You can’t swallow it and you can’t spit it out. That’s the problem of state food and drug control department officials, who don’t know what to do with over 230 sacks of seized gutkha in the capital after
The state cabinet approved a blanket ban on the manufacture, storage and distribution of all types of gutkha and paan masala which have tobacco and nicotine content due to increased number of oral cancer patients. Cabinet co-ordination department’s principal secretary N N Pandey said the order would become effective in the entire state soon after publication of a notification.
BHUBANESWAR: As high as 45.5 pc of males in the State chew tobacco. The number of females is no less with not less than 30 pc addicted to chewing-tobacco. More than 38 per cent population of Odisha is
The Centre has proposed a ban on non-recyclable laminated multi-layered plastic and metallic pouches used for packing shampoo, gutkha, pan masala and foodstuff like wafers and biscuits.
On eve of World Cancer Day on Friday, there were a number of young men who were battling for life in hospitals because they could not kick the addiction of tobacco. In Ahmedabad as well as in Gujarat, spread of oral cancer is alarming. “Oral cancer accounts for 40 per cent cancers in men in the state. This is because of high addiction to gutkha,” said noted head and neck cancer surgeon of HCG Medisurge, Dr Kaustubh Patel.
AHMEDABAD : She saw an innovative green idea' in trash bins full of discarded gutkha pouches and empty food packets. Sixteen-year-old Hetal Vaishnav has invented a new technology to help recycle multi-layered food packets which can be used in making furniture.
More than five months after the ban on use of plastic pouches containing tobacco products by a Supreme Court verdict came into effect, which stated that manufacturers of gutkha, tobacco and pan masala
