Meetings between government employees in Tamil Nadu and representatives of the tobacco industry are to be more closely scrutinized in the future.Read More
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Smoking, tobacco chewing and tobacco use in general have all gone down in India since 2009-2010, according to the Global Adult Tobacco Survey.Read More
An expert group in India says that any form of nicotine use is hazardous and that, therefore, the use of electronic nicotine-delivery systems should be banned. Read More
A proposed ban on smokeless tobacco in Assam, India, under which violators would have faced a minimum of three years in prison, has been thrown out by a court.Read More
Tobacco is starting to lose its allure in some areas of India, where high prices are being offered for Bengal gram, a crop that is relatively easy to produce.Read More
Flue-cured sales in India have become a year-round activity as those in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka overlap in March and September.Read More
Most tobacco smokers will have observed that their smoke tends to deter annoying insects, and now it seems cigarette-butt extracts can be used to reduce mosquito populations.Read More
Passengers are to be frisked at Metro stations in Lucknow, India, to prevent them from taking tobacco products on to trains.Read More
It seems that India could be edging toward a ban on electronic cigarettes without examining all the evidence.Read More
Tobacco smoking costs lives, but the tobacco industry provides livelihoods, and for an especially-large number of people in India. So how do you weigh lives against livelihoods? Read More