Unreasonable regulation will mostly be challenged, and a requirement for 90 percent tobacco-package health warnings that appear on all but one face seems unreasonable. Read More
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Although smokers are generally law-abiding, there is a need to enforce tobacco-smoking bans. Imagine what would happen if nobody was ever fined for speeding.Read More
Nepal took a while to come up with a tobacco-control strategy. Now it has to develop policies that align with that strategy.Read More
Nepalese smokers could in future be confronted with 90-percent graphic health warnings and assailed by tax hikes.Read More
Several popular brands of cigarettes are in short supply in Nepal’s Kathmandu Valley due to hoarding and black-marketing by some wholesalers, according to Republica. Some wholesalers have begun to hoard cigarettes following media reports Read More
The Industrial Promotion Board (IPB) in Nepal announced an indefinite moratorium on the registration of new gutka manufacturing units after figures from the Inland Revenue Department showed only 150 of 455 registered gutka factories pay taxes, reports Read More
The government of Nepal is unlikely to meet all of the pay demands of former workers at the Janakpur Cigarette factory, according to a story in the Daily Republica. The factory, which was established in 1965 Read More
