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Issue 11
Tobacco Control in India
Fortnightly News Summary
6 February-20 February 2009
NATIONAL HEADLINES
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GOM undecided on pictorial warning on tobaccoproducts
The Group of Ministers on Tobacco today failed to arriveat any decision on pictorial warnings on cigarette andpackets of other tobacco products. Briefing reporters after the meeting of the GoM headed by External AffairsMinister Pranab Mukherjee, Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss said, "no decision has been takenyet".
(Source: 
Hindustan Times:6 February 2009
 )
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Ramadoss to Challenge Court's Ruling To LiftSmoking Ban In Films
Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Dr.Anbumani Ramadoss has said that he will challenge thedecision of the court overturning a central ban on smokingin films. Ramadoss said the court decision was dividedand the Central Government's decision to ban smoking infilms was based on the decision of the World HealthOrganisation (WHO) not to glorify smoking by projecting itin movies.
(Source: Med India News:6 February 2009)
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UN Secretary General lauds Dr. Ramadoss as aPublic Health champion
UN Secretary General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon met the UnionHealth & Family Welfare Minister, Dr. AnbumaniRamadoss, here today and discussed a wide gamut of health related issues including National Rural HealthMission, impact of global financial crisis on health andclimate change. Complementing Dr. Ramadoss for hisleadership in the health sector, the Secretary Generaldescribed Dr. Ramadoss as a public health champion,recognized at global level, in the control of tobacco useand non-communicable disease which accounts for two-third disease burden in India.
(Source: Press Information Bureau 
: 6 February
2009)
 
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Many Indians want pictorial warnings on tobaccoproducts'
As the Government drags its feet on the issue of pictorialwarnings on tobacco products, a survey has revealed thatan overwhelmingly large number of Indians favour larger,more prominent health warning labels on packets of cigarettes and bidis.
(Source: Indian Express:9 February 2009)
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Ramadoss lauded for controlling tobacco use
THE UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon met the UnionHealth and Family Welfare Minister Anbumani Ramadoss,and discussed a wide gamut of health related issuesincluding the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM),impact of global financial crisis on health and climatechange.
(Source: 
Meri News: 11 February 2009
 ) 
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Bidi-smoking kills six lakh people in India everyyear 
Almost six lakh people die from bidi-smoking in Indiaannually while second-hand smoke is a known cause of lung cancer, heart disease, low birth weight babies andchronic lung ailments such as bronchitis and asthma, astudy has pointed out.
(Source: Indian Express:11 February 2008)
STATE HEADLINES, National
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Tobacco growers in Karnataka say ‘cheers’
Tobacco growers in Karnataka never had it so good.Having sold an estimated 90 million kg of tobacco at anaverage price of Rs 110.8 a kg since the last five months,the estimated 40,000 tobacco farmers of the State arewell poised to cumulatively earn more than Rs. 1,000crore this auction season.
(Source:
The Hindu, Chennai, TamilNadu:
7
February 2009)
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Khaini, paan masala claim more & more victims inregion
Sitting quietly in oncology ward of Sir Sunderlal hospital inBanaras Hindu University, Rakesh (name changed)curses the day when he fell a prey to tobacco and paanmasala. Not afraid to share even alcohol or a cigarette or two with friends in the college days, he is fast realising thecost of the fun- oral cancer and that too in advancedstage.
(Source:The Times of India,Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh: 7 February  2009)
 
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Shatrughan urges people to shun tobacco toprevent cancer 
Noted Bollywood actor and former Union health minister Shatrughan Sinha appealed to the people, particularlyyouths, to give up habit of using tobacco to preventcancer. He said the use of tobacco in any form has provedhighly injurious to health and increased the number of cancer patients across the world.
(Source:
The Times of India: Patna, Bihar:
 
8 February 2009)
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Now a ban on Tobacco Consumption In New Delhi
The Chief Minister of New Delhi, Sheila Dikshit, indicatedthat soon a ban will be imposed on tobacco consumptionin public places in the capital city of India. She wasspeaking at a function, organized by Pushpanjali Hospitalat India Habitat Centre, on Cancer Day. She lamented thatcancer is killing thousands of people every year in Delhialone, most of whom are smokers. She made a ferventappeal to the people to take good care of their health andto refrain from smoking.
(Source:
 Dainik Jagran,New Delhi, Delhi: 6 February 2009
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JK govt. willing to smoke in public
In October 2, 2008 the Union Health minister AnbumaniRamadoss got a legislation passed in parliament toprohibit smoking at all public places including workplaces(offices, hospitals, and educational institutions), shoppingcenters, cinemas, restaurants and coffee houses. Theanti-smoking regulations also came to effect in the Statefrom the very day but these were not implemented.
(Source:
Rising Kashmir News, Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir 
: 7 February 2009)
 
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Creating awareness against smoking is my duty:Ramadoss
Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss said, he wasnot against smoking and drinking but was just doing hisduty by creating awareness among the people about their 
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