Directors of 17 regional cancer treatment centres in India, including the Tata Memorial Centre (TMC), have recently written letters to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to ban smokeless tobacco products like gutkha.
India has the highest number of oral cancer patients in the world with 75, 000 to 80,000 cases reported every year.
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Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/ban-smokeless-tobacco-products
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/daily-news-analysis-mumbai
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/health
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/tobacco
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/smoking
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/mumbai
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/maharashtra
