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COTPA - Display of Boards by Educational Institutions Rules 2009

children-selling-tobacco Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products Act (Display of Boards by Educational Institutions) Rules, 2009

NOTIFICATION:
New Delhi, the 19th January, 2010

G.S.R. 40(E). In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 31 of the Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003 (No.34 of 2003), and in supersession of the Prohibition on Sale of the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products around Educational Institutions Rules 2004, except as respects things, done or ommitted to be done before the supersession, the Central Government hereby makes the following rules, namely:-

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Tobacco Facts

Because there is a lag of several years between when people start using tobacco and when their health suffers, the epidemic of disease and death (as it appears today) has just begun in this world. Millions are going to die due to tobacco.

100 million deaths were caused by tobacco in the 20th century. If current trends continue, there will be up to one billion deaths in the 21st century.
Unchecked, tobacco-related deaths will increase to more than eight million a year by 2030, and 80% of those deaths will occur in the developing world.