Tobacco
85% warning leaves tobacco growers in dire straits
16 Apr 2016
With manufacturers having downed shutters protesting the government’s demand that 85 per cent of cigarette and beedi packets be covered with pictorial warnings, tobacco farmers are left with stockpiles of unsold crop
Tobacco retailers join manufacturers, down shutters
13 Apr 2016
The tobacco lobby says the size of pictorial warnings in India is much larger than the average of 20 per cent that is prevalent among the top five tobacco producing countries, including Brazil and China, comprising around 90 per cent of global tobacco production
Beedi makers join tobacco firms, halt production
08 Apr 2016
Cigarette firms halt production over new health warning rules
02 Apr 2016
The tobacco industry apex body Tobacco Institute of India said the production halt would cost the industry Rs350 crore a day
.webp)
.webp)
