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Supreme Court Dismisses Plea To Increase Smoking Age To 21
The Supreme Court on Friday junked a plea seeking a direction to increase the smoking age from 18 to 21, and ban the sale of loose cigarettes.
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Jammu And Kashmir Bans Sale Of Loose Cigarettes, Beedis And Tobacco
Jammu and Kashmir government has banned sale of loose cigarettes, 'beedis' and tobacco in the state with immediate effect in a bid to discourage consumption of tobacco products especially among the youths.
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Sale of Loose Cigarettes Now Invites Prison Term in Uttar Pradesh
Sale of loose cigarettes across Uttar Pradesh has been banned and deemed a penal offence with immediate effect, officials said in Lucknow on Wednesday.
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VAT on Tobacco Products Hiked in Uttar Pradesh
Cigarette smoking and consumption of other tobacco products will become costlier in Uttar Pradesh as the state government today decided to hike Value Added Tax (VAT) on them besides banning sale of loose cigarettes in the market.
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75 Per Cent of Cigarettes Sold Loose in India: Study
Nearly 75 per cent of all cigarettes in India are sold as single sticks valued at close to 30 per cent of the Rs.35,000 crore (over $5 billion) Indian market, an international journal says. The sale of single cigarettes, which is not in the interest of public health, is an important factor for early experimentation, initiation and persistence of to...
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Government Proposes Ban on Sale of Loose Cigarettes
Brushing aside opposition, the government today moved to amend the anti-smoking law and proposed radical changes, including ban on sale of loose cigarettes and raising the minimum age of a person buying tobacco products to 21 years from existing 18.
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Cancer Survivor Writes to PM Narendra Modi for Ban on Loose Cigarettes
A former Customs Commissioner from Mumbai, who lost speech and a part of his tongue due to throat cancer after prolong tobacco use, has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking ban loose on cigarettes, amid reports that the Centre's proposed move is likely to be put on hold.
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Ban on Sale of Loose Cigarettes Put on Hold by Government: Sources
The proposal of banning the sale of loose cigarettes has been put on hold by the government, say sources.
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Chaos Meets Self-Declared Independence in Ukraine
The Donetsk People's Republic is starting to smell. Rotting garbage is piling up in the hallways of the government office building seized by separatists in eastern Ukraine. Telephones ripped from the walls are piled atop broken furniture and mounds of old files. The stench of sweat and stale cigarettes is everywhere. The guards, slouching men with...
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Barack Obama says he quit cigarettes for fear of wife
US President Barack Obama said on Monday that he stopped smoking out of fear of his wife, in an unwitting admission captured by a loose microphone.
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Supreme Court Dismisses Plea To Increase Smoking Age To 21
The Supreme Court on Friday junked a plea seeking a direction to increase the smoking age from 18 to 21, and ban the sale of loose cigarettes.
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Jammu And Kashmir Bans Sale Of Loose Cigarettes, Beedis And Tobacco
Jammu and Kashmir government has banned sale of loose cigarettes, 'beedis' and tobacco in the state with immediate effect in a bid to discourage consumption of tobacco products especially among the youths.
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Sale of Loose Cigarettes Now Invites Prison Term in Uttar Pradesh
Sale of loose cigarettes across Uttar Pradesh has been banned and deemed a penal offence with immediate effect, officials said in Lucknow on Wednesday.
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VAT on Tobacco Products Hiked in Uttar Pradesh
Cigarette smoking and consumption of other tobacco products will become costlier in Uttar Pradesh as the state government today decided to hike Value Added Tax (VAT) on them besides banning sale of loose cigarettes in the market.
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75 Per Cent of Cigarettes Sold Loose in India: Study
Nearly 75 per cent of all cigarettes in India are sold as single sticks valued at close to 30 per cent of the Rs.35,000 crore (over $5 billion) Indian market, an international journal says. The sale of single cigarettes, which is not in the interest of public health, is an important factor for early experimentation, initiation and persistence of to...
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Government Proposes Ban on Sale of Loose Cigarettes
Brushing aside opposition, the government today moved to amend the anti-smoking law and proposed radical changes, including ban on sale of loose cigarettes and raising the minimum age of a person buying tobacco products to 21 years from existing 18.
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Cancer Survivor Writes to PM Narendra Modi for Ban on Loose Cigarettes
A former Customs Commissioner from Mumbai, who lost speech and a part of his tongue due to throat cancer after prolong tobacco use, has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking ban loose on cigarettes, amid reports that the Centre's proposed move is likely to be put on hold.
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Ban on Sale of Loose Cigarettes Put on Hold by Government: Sources
The proposal of banning the sale of loose cigarettes has been put on hold by the government, say sources.
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Chaos Meets Self-Declared Independence in Ukraine
The Donetsk People's Republic is starting to smell. Rotting garbage is piling up in the hallways of the government office building seized by separatists in eastern Ukraine. Telephones ripped from the walls are piled atop broken furniture and mounds of old files. The stench of sweat and stale cigarettes is everywhere. The guards, slouching men with...
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Barack Obama says he quit cigarettes for fear of wife
US President Barack Obama said on Monday that he stopped smoking out of fear of his wife, in an unwitting admission captured by a loose microphone.
