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Cabinet May Soon Consider Complete FDI Ban In Tobacco Sector: Report
Under new norms introduced by the government, tobacco products would have to carry larger pictorial warnings covering 85 per cent of the packaging space.
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India Top Court Orders Large Health Warning on Cigarette Packets
India’s top court rejected a plea by cigarette makers to reduce the size of pictorial health warning on packets.
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Karnataka High Court Strikes Down 85% Pictorial Warning Rule For Tobacco Products
The Karnataka High Court today struck down the 2014 amendment rules that mandated pictorial health warnings to cover 85 per cent of tobacco product packaging space, holding that they violated Constitutional norms.
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Cabinet May Soon Consider Complete FDI Ban In Tobacco Sector: Report
Under new norms introduced by the government, tobacco products would have to carry larger pictorial warnings covering 85 per cent of the packaging space.
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India's Biggest Cigarette Maker ITC Criticizes Big Health Warnings On Packs
ITC criticized the government's decision to impose bigger health warnings on cigarette packets, saying there was little evidence to link smoking to diseases depicted in those pictures.
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NITI Aayog Concerned Over Total FDI Ban In Tobacco Sector
The proposal to completely ban foreign direct investment (FDI) in the tobacco sector has run into rough weather as NITI Aayog has raised certain issues on the plan.
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ITC Shuts Cigarette Plants From May 4
India's biggest cigarette maker ITC Ltd shut its plants from May 4 to comply with a new stipulated pictorial warnings rule issued by the federal government, the company said in a statement.
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Tobacco Farmers, Retailers Protest 85% Pictorial Warning
Farmers and micro retailers from across Karnataka on Thursday staged a march here demanding rollback of a rule mandating 85 per cent pictorial warnings on tobacco products, calling it a "harsh policy" that does not balance the interests of stakeholders.
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Tobacco Industry Packs Must Carry Bigger Warnings: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Wednesday said the tobacco industry must adhere to government rules requiring stringent health warnings on cigarette packs, in a major setback for the $11-billion industry that opposes the new policy.
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Pictorial Warning On Tobacco Products: Court Seeks Centre's Reply
The Delhi High Court on Monday sought the Centre's response on a plea seeking quashing of notifications issued by the Health Ministry on printing 85 per cent pictorial warnings on tobacco products.
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Top Court To Hear Cases Challenging Tobacco Pack Warnings On Monday
The Supreme Court said on Friday it will hear petitions filed by the $11 billion tobacco industry against the government's stringent package warning rules next week, when it will also review other similar cases filed in recent years.
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PM Narendra Modi Backs Larger Health Warnings on Cigarette Packets: Sources
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reportedly asked Health Minister JP Nadda to go ahead with enforcing larger pictorial warnings on cigarette packets after a parliamentary committee said the move should be delayed because there is no local evidence that smoking causes cancer.
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Harsher pictorial warnings on tobacco products from Dec 1
Packets of tobacco products will have to carry new harsher pictorial warnings from December 1 as the government today came out with separate sets of gory graphics of cancer-affected lungs and mouth for smoking and smokeless forms of tobacco.The warnings will be rotated every two years instead of the existing duration of one year, apparently in keep...
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Cabinet May Soon Consider Complete FDI Ban In Tobacco Sector: Report
Under new norms introduced by the government, tobacco products would have to carry larger pictorial warnings covering 85 per cent of the packaging space.
-
India Top Court Orders Large Health Warning on Cigarette Packets
India’s top court rejected a plea by cigarette makers to reduce the size of pictorial health warning on packets.
-
Karnataka High Court Strikes Down 85% Pictorial Warning Rule For Tobacco Products
The Karnataka High Court today struck down the 2014 amendment rules that mandated pictorial health warnings to cover 85 per cent of tobacco product packaging space, holding that they violated Constitutional norms.
-
Cabinet May Soon Consider Complete FDI Ban In Tobacco Sector: Report
Under new norms introduced by the government, tobacco products would have to carry larger pictorial warnings covering 85 per cent of the packaging space.
-
India's Biggest Cigarette Maker ITC Criticizes Big Health Warnings On Packs
ITC criticized the government's decision to impose bigger health warnings on cigarette packets, saying there was little evidence to link smoking to diseases depicted in those pictures.
-
NITI Aayog Concerned Over Total FDI Ban In Tobacco Sector
The proposal to completely ban foreign direct investment (FDI) in the tobacco sector has run into rough weather as NITI Aayog has raised certain issues on the plan.
-
ITC Shuts Cigarette Plants From May 4
India's biggest cigarette maker ITC Ltd shut its plants from May 4 to comply with a new stipulated pictorial warnings rule issued by the federal government, the company said in a statement.
-
Tobacco Farmers, Retailers Protest 85% Pictorial Warning
Farmers and micro retailers from across Karnataka on Thursday staged a march here demanding rollback of a rule mandating 85 per cent pictorial warnings on tobacco products, calling it a "harsh policy" that does not balance the interests of stakeholders.
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Tobacco Industry Packs Must Carry Bigger Warnings: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Wednesday said the tobacco industry must adhere to government rules requiring stringent health warnings on cigarette packs, in a major setback for the $11-billion industry that opposes the new policy.
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Pictorial Warning On Tobacco Products: Court Seeks Centre's Reply
The Delhi High Court on Monday sought the Centre's response on a plea seeking quashing of notifications issued by the Health Ministry on printing 85 per cent pictorial warnings on tobacco products.
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Top Court To Hear Cases Challenging Tobacco Pack Warnings On Monday
The Supreme Court said on Friday it will hear petitions filed by the $11 billion tobacco industry against the government's stringent package warning rules next week, when it will also review other similar cases filed in recent years.
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PM Narendra Modi Backs Larger Health Warnings on Cigarette Packets: Sources
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reportedly asked Health Minister JP Nadda to go ahead with enforcing larger pictorial warnings on cigarette packets after a parliamentary committee said the move should be delayed because there is no local evidence that smoking causes cancer.
-
Harsher pictorial warnings on tobacco products from Dec 1
Packets of tobacco products will have to carry new harsher pictorial warnings from December 1 as the government today came out with separate sets of gory graphics of cancer-affected lungs and mouth for smoking and smokeless forms of tobacco.The warnings will be rotated every two years instead of the existing duration of one year, apparently in keep...
