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No Harm In Pictorial Warnings For Tobacco Products: Supreme Court Rules
The Supreme Court today refused to stay the operation of new amended rules of the Union Health Ministry directing the manufacturers to have graphic warning images on packets of cigarettes and other tobacco products and helpline numbers for those who wanted to quit the habit.
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Tobacco Product Retailers Seek Roll Back Of 85% Pictorial Warnings
Over 1,000 retailers of tobacco products on Thursday protested outside the Union Health Ministry office here, demanding reduction in the size of the graphical health warnings on cigarette packets.
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China Chokes as Tobacco Profits a Tough Habit to Quit
In the tobacco-producing heartland of China -- the world's largest cigarette market -- smoking is commonplace at work, in taxis and even in hospitals.
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Kerala to ban tobacco advertisements
Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy today said advertising of tobacco products would soon be banned in the state in keeping with Section 5 of the Indian Tobacco Control Act, 2003.
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Ban Tobacco Advertising to Reduce Consumption: WHO
Banning tobacco advertising and sponsorship is one of the most cost-effective ways to reduce tobacco consumption, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO)."A comprehensive ban on all tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship could decrease...
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John Terry resemblance prompts govt to pick new image for cigarette packs
On every packet of cigarettes sold in India since December last year, a photograph of a man with cloudy lungs accompanies the warning "Smoking Kills." The man is in silhouette. Now, that picture has to change, after complaints that it was based on an internet photo of English footballer John Terry. Sources say that tobacco company Godfrey Philips ...
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Is Web the new platform for tobacco advertisements?
It's been nearly 40 years since cigarette advertisements on television and radio were banned in the US, and earlier this summer new regulations went into effect prohibiting tobacco companies from sponsoring events, but now the tobacco industry may have found a new, unregulated medium to advertise on - the Internet. A study released this week descri...
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No Harm In Pictorial Warnings For Tobacco Products: Supreme Court Rules
The Supreme Court today refused to stay the operation of new amended rules of the Union Health Ministry directing the manufacturers to have graphic warning images on packets of cigarettes and other tobacco products and helpline numbers for those who wanted to quit the habit.
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Tobacco Product Retailers Seek Roll Back Of 85% Pictorial Warnings
Over 1,000 retailers of tobacco products on Thursday protested outside the Union Health Ministry office here, demanding reduction in the size of the graphical health warnings on cigarette packets.
-
China Chokes as Tobacco Profits a Tough Habit to Quit
In the tobacco-producing heartland of China -- the world's largest cigarette market -- smoking is commonplace at work, in taxis and even in hospitals.
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Kerala to ban tobacco advertisements
Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy today said advertising of tobacco products would soon be banned in the state in keeping with Section 5 of the Indian Tobacco Control Act, 2003.
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Ban Tobacco Advertising to Reduce Consumption: WHO
Banning tobacco advertising and sponsorship is one of the most cost-effective ways to reduce tobacco consumption, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO)."A comprehensive ban on all tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship could decrease...
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John Terry resemblance prompts govt to pick new image for cigarette packs
On every packet of cigarettes sold in India since December last year, a photograph of a man with cloudy lungs accompanies the warning "Smoking Kills." The man is in silhouette. Now, that picture has to change, after complaints that it was based on an internet photo of English footballer John Terry. Sources say that tobacco company Godfrey Philips ...
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Is Web the new platform for tobacco advertisements?
It's been nearly 40 years since cigarette advertisements on television and radio were banned in the US, and earlier this summer new regulations went into effect prohibiting tobacco companies from sponsoring events, but now the tobacco industry may have found a new, unregulated medium to advertise on - the Internet. A study released this week descri...
