Tobacco Promotion Board under fire in India

A group of tobacco control activists and supporters staged a demonstration in Chennai, India, on Saturday demanding the closure of the ‘Tobacco Promotion Board’, according to a story in the Times of India.

Members of the Tamil Nadu People’s Forum for Tobacco Control said that while the health ministry was working on improving the country’s tobacco control law by making amendments to the Cigarette and Other Tobacco Products Act, it failed to see the destructive nature of the tobacco board, which worked for tobacco promotion.

Several doctors, social workers and lawyers were said to have taken part in the demonstration.