Moscow: Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has said new legislation banning smoking in public places could save up to 200,000 lives annually in the country. "I hope that it (anti-smoking law) will contribute to reducing this factor (smoking)," Medvedev said at the first session of the government's health protection committee.
Russia has some of the highest rates of smoking in the world. President Vladimir Putin signed the ban into the law on February 25, 2013. It envisages a gradual ban on smoking in public, including in government buildings, healthcare and educational facilities, cultural sites, sports stadiums and on public transport.
The law comes into force June 1, 2013, though some of its provisions, including a total ban on smoking in restaurants, trains and hotels, will only come into effect a year later. Medvedev cited expert data according to which the ban will "not only save health but also up to 200,000 lives" a year, which is equal to "the population of a large Russian city."
The legislation also imposes a total ban on tobacco advertising. Tobacco companies will be barred from holding promotional prize draws and sponsoring public events and competitions. The bill also prohibits display of tobacco products in shops. Sales in retail kiosks will be banned from June 2014, and minimum prices will be set for cigarettes, which currently cost from just 40 rubles (about $1) a pack....
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05:12 AM, Apr 25, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed 23 states and five union territories to file status report on the implementation of the notification issued by them banning the sale of gutka and pan masala containing tobacco or nicotine. The apex court bench of Justice GS Singhvi an Justice Kurien Joseph also directed the remaining states and union territories to explain the reasons why they had not imposed the ban...
03:48 AM, Apr 04, 2013
The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed Health Secretaries of the states and Union Territories (UTs) to file compliance report on implementation of ban on sale and manufacture of gutka and pan masala containing tobacco. ...
06:09 PM, Apr 03, 2013
Even though the government-approved new pictorial warnings on tobacco packets were to be implemented April 1, 2013, a survey by a health organisation said on Monday that no tobacco products in the national capital carried the new warning. ...
05:52 AM, Apr 02, 2013
Saif Ali Khan has shot a special video to spread awareness about ills of tobacco that will play in the beginning of his upcoming movie 'Go Goa Gone' where he is seen as a cigar smoking zombie killer. ...
06:02 PM, Apr 01, 2013
Saif Ali Khan has earned the ire of an anti-tobacco watchdog with the posters of his upcoming film 'Go Goa Gone' where he is seen smoking a cigar. ...
11:13 AM, Mar 29, 2013
CJ Navin Khanna on how harmful tobacco can be and why the warnings about the sufferings shouldn't be taken lightly. ...
05:37 PM, Feb 18, 2013
On World Cancer Day (4th February), Dr Manish K Singhal, Cancer Specialist, Fortis Hospital joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the subject. ...
01:42 PM, Feb 06, 2013
The Odisha government in a notification on Friday clamped a ban on the manufacture, sale and use of gutka and pan masala containing tobacco or nicotine. ...
06:03 AM, Jan 05, 2013
Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh requesting for a country-wide ban on gutkha. Gutkha is banned in 14 states of India and the union territory of Chandigarh. ...
11:53 AM, Dec 03, 2012
New Delhi: A new study has estimated that 100 million people have died due to smoking in India over the last 100 years, and the worst apparently is yet to come. Nearly 4.52 trillion cigarettes and 40.3 trillion beedis have been produced in 100 years, between 1910 and 2010 in India, according to a new study published in the journal Current Science. And in an even more shocking revelation, the...
06:57 AM, Nov 12, 2012
Patna: About 20 million school students in Bihar on Wednesday took a pledge that they would never consume tobacco or related products, and would encourage their family and friends to do the same, an official said. "Over 20 million students of around 2.2 lakh government and private schools vowed that they would never consume tobacco or related products in their lives," A.A. Hai, an official of the Cancer Awareness Society...
10:53 AM, Nov 08, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Smokers in Kerala spend nearly nine per cent of their income on smoking, a survey by the Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) has revealed. Chief Minister Oommen Chandy recently released the report to Paul Sebastian, director, Regional Cancer Centre and vice chairman of Tobacco Free Kerala. The GAT Survey, conducted under the coordination of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in 2009-10, states that the monthly expenditure of...
05:06 PM, Oct 12, 2012
New Delhi: A new Lancet study reveals that there are more smokers worldwide than previously thought and that the global tobacco burden may have been underestimated. In the light of these revelations, does India need tighten its anti-tobacco campaign? The new study says that over half the world's population consumes tobacco. That's around 852 million people worldwide according to the new estimates. 661 million worldwide smoke and 247 million are...
06:32 AM, Aug 17, 2012
New Delhi: Signalling some progress in the deadlock over anti-tobacco rules, the I&B ministry has asked the Censor Board to ensure that a film having smoking scenes also carries two 20 second anti-tobacco warnings voiced by the actor who is seen smoking in the film. Sources said that the ministry has asked for two slots one in the beginning of the movie and one after the interval for these warnings....
09:40 PM, Aug 09, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: There has been little impact on the sale of gutkha and pan masala even after the ban imposed by the State Government and those who need the items get them at their will. Though the police had started the drive against the sales of the intoxicants, the scenario remains more or less the same before the ban came to effect, two months ago. The ban has not made much...
03:25 PM, Aug 01, 2012
Kalpetta: The petty shops selling smokeless tobacco products along the Kerala-Karnataka border near here are reaping a windfall on account of the ban imposed by the state government on the sale of pan masala and its variants containing tobacco and nicotine. The customers from the state allege that on certain brands of products, the shops charge more than ten-folds of the original price after the ban. One packet of Hans...
03:05 PM, Jul 28, 2012
Pune: Though the state government banned gutka and paan masala a few days ago, MiD DAY has found that it is not difficult to get the tobacco products in the city. The ban came into force on July 20, and since then officials of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Pune division, have upped their efforts to prevent paan stall owners and wholesalers from storing, distributing or selling gutka and...
04:50 PM, Jul 26, 2012
In a major breakthrough in the battle against tobacco, six states have banned gutka and other tobacco foods. Here is the full transcript of CNN-IBN's Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose's chat with experts over the issue: Sagarika Ghose: Hi there. Good evening. We are focusing tonight on the tobacco product gutka. Now anti-gutka campaigners say gutka is extremely injurious to health and leads to oral cancer. India is the capital of...
10:41 AM, Jul 26, 2012
In a major breakthrough in the battle against tobacco, six states have banned gutka and other tobacco foods. ...
11:59 PM, Jul 25, 2012
