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Punjab Police to enforce ban on e-cigarettes, hookah bars
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], Feb 7 (ANI): Acting on the directions of Health and Welfare Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu, 'State Tobacco Control Cell' in collaboration with the Punjab Police has initiated a state-level drive to curb tobacco use to save children and youth across the State.
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Godfrey Phillips clocks 39 pc jump in net profit at Rs 114 crore
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Feb 7 (ANI): Godfrey Phillips India Ltd on Friday reported 39 per cent increase in its consolidated net profit at Rs 114 crore during the third quarter of current fiscal (Q3 FY20) compared to Rs 82 crore in the year-ago period.
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E-cigarettes are popular among comparatively recent quitters, study sugges
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 4 (ANI): Vaping is common for those who left smoking tobacco within the past 5 years rather than for those who left a decade or more ago.
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Budget 2020: Excise duty hiked on cigarettes, other tobacco products
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): The government has proposed to raise excise duty by way of National Calamity Contingent Duty on Cigarettes and other tobacco products. The announcement was made in the Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday.
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Cigarette and tobacco products to cost more
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 1 (ANI): A large number of items, including cigarette and tobacco products, will cost more due to hike in taxes following the presenting of the Union Budget 2020-21 by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.
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Study reveals ill effects of marijuana for heart patients
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 25 (ANI): Physicians are worried after they found traces of Marijuana in a number of heart patients. While smoking tobacco leads to one in every four cardiovascular disease-related deaths, the cause of similar effects from using marijuana is still not entirely kno
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Marijuana affects heart more than one can think of, reveals study
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 21 (ANI): With traces of marijuana being found in a number of heart patients, physicians worry about the safe usage of the substance considering more States have legalised it for recreational and medicinal use raising its usage level in the past few years.
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Andhra Pradesh Police seize banned tobacco products worth Rs 2.25 lakhs
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Krishna (Andhra Pradesh) [India], Jan 6 (ANI): A police team of Machilipatnam's R Peta station seized banned tobacco products worth Rs 2.25 lakh.
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Harm Reduction Research & Innovation Centre launched to conduct advanced r
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Dec 24 (ANI/ Hunk Golden and Media): Silicon Valley-based fund Metaform Ventures, lead by a serial entrepreneur Nilesh Jain, is incubating a Harm Reduction Research & Innovation Centre (HRRIC) to conduct advanced research on tobacco cessation and harm red
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Assam bans gutkha, pan masala containing tobacco, nicotine for 1 year
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Guwahati (Assam) [India], Nov 27 (ANI): The Assam government has prohibited manufacturing, storage, transportation, display, distribution and sale of gutkha, pan masala or any chewing material containing tobacco or nicotine as ingredients, for a period of one year.
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Lok Sabha members support bill on e-cigarettes but question wide use of to
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 26 (ANI): Members in Lok Sabha on Tuesday supported a bill that seeks to prohibit production, manufacture, import, export, transport, sale or distribution of electronic cigarettes but said the Centre should also take steps to curb use of cigarettes and other forms of t
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AP: Kanchikacharla police conducts searches, seizes banned tobacco product
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Krishna (Andhra Pradesh) [India], Nov 19 (ANI): Kanchikacharla police on Tuesday conducted searches and seized banned tobacco products worth Rs 10 lakh from near Perakalapadu village here.
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