The problem, say campaigners, is that chewing tobacco has always been seen as socially acceptable in India. Whole families, generally unaware of the danger, will share these products at the end of ...

Wrapped inside a betel leaf and placed in the side of the mouth, tobacco has been chewed for centuries in India. But it is only in the last decade that tobacco companies have started selling ...

India currently ranks third globally in the highest number of cancer cases, suggesting that current tobacco control efforts have not been effective. While India has made some progress in ...

Mumbai: Cancer continues to claim millions of lives in India, but tobacco consumption which is responsible for about 40 percent of cancer cases in the country is the single largest preventable ...

Underlining the pressing need to regulate flavoured and smokeless tobacco (SLT) products in India, a research paper published in the Journal of Cancer Policy has pointed out that SLT use ...

COP10, under the WHO Framework Convention for Tobacco ... of India announced a ban on e-cigarettes in 2019, following which manufacturing, import, export, transport, sale, distribution, storage ...