A city-based advocate has sought a Madras High Court direction to the State government to prohibit the manufacture and sale of tobacco and nicotine consumable products, including pan masala and gutka, in the interest of public health.

In the public interest litigation, P.T.Geotom of George Town said tobacco was used by nearly 1.1 billion people and up to one-third of the adult population in the world. The WHO had said that tobacco consumption was the leading preventable cause of death. Tobacco consumption caused 5.4 million deaths per year. In India, there were nearly 275 million tobacco users and every year about one million people died.

Ahmedabad: A comprehensive ban on production and sale of gutka will come into effect in Gujarat on Tuesday, as per the notification issued by the state government. Chief minister Narendra Modi, during his Independence Day address, had announced complete ban on gutka from September 11.

However, there is a catch in the notification issued: sale of gutka will be prohibited, but one would be free to sell separately tobacco, beetle nut and lime separately.

Notification banning manufacture, sale, transportation & storage to be issued today

The Delhi Government has decided to impose a complete ban on manufacture, sale, display, transportation and storage of gutka and other related products in the city. Health Minister A. K. Walia said on Monday that the decision was taken at a high-level meeting at Delhi Secretariat and a notification to this effect will be issued on Tuesday. “Gutka and other products contain paan masala, nicotine and tobacco particles, hence are harmful.

The ban would bring with it several qualitative changes in the health, economic spending and the environment

A comprehensive ban on sale, stocking, production and distribution of gutka in Gujarat will come into effect from tomorrow on September 12. The announcement of the ban was made by Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Independence Day last month. “I have to save the youths of Gujarat, from the dreaded evil of cancer and that’s why a decision to impose a complete ban on gutka has been taken,” Modi had said while making the announcement on August 15 in Junagadh.

The Delhi Government on Wednesday told the Delhi High Court that it hopes that within two weeks it would be able to take a decision to ban manufacture and sale of gutka and any products which are taken as chewing stuff having nicotine and tobacco in them.

Delhi Government Standing Counsel Najmi Waziri made this submission in response to a public interest litigation seeking a direction to ban gutka in the Capital. Mr. Waziri further submitted that the Government had already taken the initiative towards banning gutka in the city.

AHMEDABAD: A comprehensive ban on gutkha across the state from September 11 declared by the CM Narendra Modi might just be the panacea Ahmedabad needed to safeguard its youth from the jaws of death. Ahmedabad is the capital of oral cancers caused by tobacco consumption in India. Against the average prevalence of 40 per cent tobacco-related cancers (TRC) in India, the prevalence of TRC is Ahmedabad urban and rural population is a staggering 55 per cent, revealed figures.

The Directorate of Public Health and Preventive Medicine of the Tamil Nadu government has conveyed to former Union Minister and PMK leader Anbumani Ramadoss that the proposal for banning gutkha and paan masala in Tamil Nadu is under active consideration of the State government.

Replying to the letter of the former Union Minister, director of Public Health said that appropriate action was being taken to ban these health hazardous tobacco products in the State.

CM Announces Comprehensive Ban During I-Day Speech

Ahmedabad: The numbers 9/11 just got new meaning in Gujarat. Instead of a war on terror, they will signify a war on the deadly addiction of gutka and will come into force from September 11. During his Independence Day speech in Junagadh on Wednesday, chief minister Narendra Modi announced a comprehensive ban on the addictive substance across the state.

A group of doctors from Tata Memorial Hospital (TMH) here on Thursday filed an intervening application in support of Maharashtra government's decision to ban gutkha and pan masala, which was challenged by companies manufacturing these products.

Tata Memorial Hospital is one of the largest cancer treatment and research centres in the country. Admitting the petition, a division bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice Nitin Jamdar, which was hearing a bunch of petitions filed by the manufacturers of gutkha and pan masala challenging the ban,

Having nearly 275 million tobacco users, India ranks second globally and very close to China (approximately 301 million users). But unlike China, where nearly all are smokers and nearly 95 per cent smoke manufactured cigarettes, India accounts for more of smokeless tobacco users — 206 million, says a study published today (August 17) in The Lancet .

The study analysed the data from the Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) conducted between October 2008 and March 2010. The data from 14 low and middle-income countries that “collectively contribute to most of the disease burden attributable to tobacco use” was compared with that of the U.K and the U.S. The number of people surveyed was different in the case of each country. India had the highest number surveyed, both of men and women.