Public policies and the tobacco industry

  • 08/07/2011

  • Economic and Political Weekly

India has played a key role in drawing up the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control that was initiated by the World
Health Organisation and the country has ratified it. Ironically,
the government’s Indian Tobacco Board is expected to promote
Indian varieties of tobacco and the development of the tobacco
industry. A draft code of conduct on the government’s interaction
with the tobacco industry is presented here for wider debate.