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MUMBAI: FEBRUARY 15, 2012:- Under its National Tobacco Control Program (NTCP), the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, in association with the World Lung Foundation (WLF), is slated to launch a mass media campaign titled ‘Tobacco is eating your baby alive' this week.
PATNA: JANUARY 03, 2012:- 2011 was a year of progressive developments in tobacco control in Bihar with several initiatives being taken to check the rising tobacco consuming populace of the state.
MUMBAI: DECEMBER 31, 2011:- The World Health Organisation (WHO) has imposed a Rs 250-crore tax on India, for non-compliance of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) by the WHO.
PATNA: December 18, 2011:- Deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi said here on Wednesday that taxes would be hiked on tobacco products and pan masala in a bid to discourage their use as they cause cancer.
DELHI: OCTOBER 06, 2011:- 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.Q. What are the economic impacts of tobacco use? A. The epidemic poses a long-term economic threat to countries and may slow their development. Tobacco negatively affects the welfare of users and costs the world hundreds of billions of dollars each year in lost productivity. If the epidemic worsens, the economic losses in highly populated developing countries will be severe. Many of these countries are manufacturing centres for the global economy and the growing number of tobacco-related deaths - half of which occur during prime productive years - will impose a heavy burden on these economies. |
