Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
The WHO award is given to governments or individuals who show exceptional zeal in tobacco control. UNION HEALTH Minister J P Nadda is set to get the World Health Organization’s (WHO) award for outstanding global leadership in tobacco control. One of the proposers for the award is Dr K S …
Amid apprehensions that the new pictorial warnings on all tobacco products may be disregarded by various players, Voluntary Health Association of India (VHAI) on Thursday said the tobacco industry is making attempts to scuttle the implementation of the new health warnings. “The industry is falsely claiming that livelihoods of workers …
State Tobacco Control Departmentcollects over Rs.57 lakh fine in six years As many as 126 women have been fined for lighting up in public and the State Tobacco Control Department has collected Rs. 57.92 lakh in fine in the past six years since the implementation of smoke-free rules which came …
Himachal today earned the distinction of becoming the first state in the country to be declared smoke-free with a compliance of 84.52 per cent, based on a scientific technical survey conducted as per international standards. The milestone achieved by the state was formally announced by Health Minister Kaul Singh Thakur …
Jammu and Kashmir is fast emerging as the smoking capital of North India. The monthly spending on tobacco products far outstrips the national average. National statistics say smokers aged 15 years and above spend Rs 399.2 a month on cigarettes and Rs 93.4 on bidis while smokers in the state …
Directors of 14 regional cancer centres across the country, including the Indian Dental Association and Tata Memorial Centre (TMC), have written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Union Health Minister Ghulab Nabi Azad urging them to bring in a nationwide ban on the sale of gutka/pan masala products in the …
India ranks shamefully low in a new report that put countries according to how successfully they managed to introduce pictorial health warnings on tobacco packets — a proven strategy that deters people from smoking or chewing tobacco. According to the Cigarette Package Health Warnings: International Status Report, which was released …
Pictorial warnings on cigarette packs continue to sully India’s anti-tobacco efforts on the global arena. The third edition of the Cigarette Package Health Warnings: International Status Report has indicted India for its indequate efforts in putting effective pictoral warning on cigarette packs. The report, released recently at the conference of …
When it comes to pictorial warnings on tobacco packets, India ranks a low 123 among 198 countries surveyed on the warnings parameter. While experts agree that pictorial warnings on tobacco packets is a proven strategy that deters people from smoking or chewing tobacco, the ground reality is that less than …
Latest addition will be insertion of the word “warning” in red font on the tobacco packs In an effort to curb tobacco abuse in India, the Union Ministry of Health & Family Welfare has notified a new set of warnings to be depicted on tobacco product packs with effect from …
Anti-tobacco groups in the country are up in arms against the smokeless tobacco industry which they claim is resorting to misleading advertisements that undermines the ill-effects of chewing gutka. Addressing a press conference here on Thursday, Voluntary Health Association of India executive director Bhavna Mukhopadhyay said: “The smokeless tobacco industry …
‘We have brought in stringent laws to check smoking in public places’ Members of various non-government organisations working in the area of tobacco control have demanded that Delhi too join the various States across the country and ban gutka/smokless tobacco products sale in the Capital which will have a direct …
BHUBANESWAR: Even as the World No Tobacco Day was observed all across on Thursday, there are efforts to achieve the goal of making Cuttack and Khurda districts smoke-free. Both the districts are among the select few in the country to have been included under the National Tobacco Control Programme (NTCP). …
NGOs have claimed that recent reports suggesting that one of the pictorial warnings for tobacco products resembles footballer John Terry could be an attempt by the manufacturers to scuttle the pictorial warnings once again. In a recent RTI filed by the Voluntary Health Association of India (VHAI), the issue was …
Himachal Pradesh Voluntary Health Association (HPVHA) - an NGO working to make the state tobacco-free, has come out strongly against state government’s plan to allow beedi and cigarette units to set up base in Hamirpur district. The organisation has alleged that the move will completely jeopardise the drive to discourage …
Three years after implementation of the no-smoking rules that came into effect on October 2, 2008, over 42,194 people have been fined/challaned and over Rs.30 lakh has been collected by the Delhi Government from defaulters. According to the data collected by the Delhi State Tobacco Control Cell, of those challaned, …
Government agencies not taking action against defaulters: study More than five months after the ban on use of plastic pouches for sale of tobacco products came into effect on March 1 this year, small and big manufacturers of pan masala and chewing tobacco are still violating the rule openly, a …
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 are restrained from using plastic material in the sachets, the manufacturers of chewing tobacco and pan masala …
GUWAHATI: More than five months after the Supreme Court issued a ban on the sale of tobacco products in plastic pouches with effect from March 1, all small and big manufacturers of chewing tobacco and pan masala are now violating the rule openly. This has been revealed in a recent …
The Chief Ministers of 11 States have pledged their support to fight the growing menace of tobacco products like gutka and khaini . The month-long activity that started in May included tobacco abuse victims along with oncologists meeting their respective Chief Ministers and urging them to protect the people of …
