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1. General public.
2. All manufacturers and exporters of tobacco and its products.
3. All enforcement agencies in India.
4. All Govt. and NGO's in India.
5. Electronic and print media.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Ramadoss-Levy-higher-tax-on-cigarettes/articleshow/5992608.cms
CHENNAI: Member of Parliament, Dr.Anbumani Ramadoss, on the occasion of World No Tobacco Day on May 31, recommended that the government increase the taxed levied on tobacco products.

He expressed concern over the rising percentage of women smokers, citing that over 11 percent of Indian women use tobacco products.

"Current, 9 % tax is levied for beedi and 38% tax for cigarettes, " he noted in his recommendations. "But this is not adequate to discourage the use of tobacco products. So the percentage of tax must be increased."

"Over 10 lakh people die every year in India due to the use of tobacco, " he declared. "There is a need to make a stringent implementation of the Prevention of Tobacco act. Particularly, smoking must be banned within 100 metres of schools and colleges."

Ramadoss also requested the recommendations of the World Health Organisation (WHO) on awareness campaigns and advertisements be implemented properly.
http://expressbuzz.com/cities/chennai/traders-vow-not-to-sell-tobacco-products/177637.html
CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu Traders’ Association has decided not to sell tobacco products on May 31, which is being observed as World No Tobacco Day.On Saturday The Cancer research Institute organised a one-day workshop on tobacco control for traders. “Traders will not sell tobacco on Monday, we will work towards reducing this menace, ” said Tha Vellaiyan, president of the traders association. The event is aimed at highlighting how tobacco consumption had increased in the country.Statistics have recently shown that 57 per cent men of the male population and 10.9 per cent women of the female population consume tobacco in one form or the other.“There are many cases now where women and children as young as 10 years have taken to tobacco to keep their hunger away. Many women farm workers keep chewing tobacco whole long day, while children have started taking to smoking by picking up used cigarettes thrown by their fathers, ” said Dr V Shanta, Chairman of the Cancer research Institute. She spoke on how the menace of tobacco could be reduced by making people more awareness of its ill-effects. “In spite of the COTPA 2003, very few traders follow the rules simply because they are ignorant or because the authorities do not take any action against the law breakers, ” said a specialist from the tobacco cessation centre.Meanwhile, former Union Health Minister and Pattali Makkal Katchi Rajya Sabha member Anbumani Ramadoss has sought for the complete execution of the six guidelines framed by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to counter the tobacco menace. In a statement, he said the guidelines called MPOWER are - monitor tobacco use and prevention policies, protect people from tobacco smoke, offer help to quit tobacco use, warn about the dangers of tobacco, enforce bans on tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship and raise taxes on tobacco.

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100601/jsp/nation/story_12506549.jsp

Bhubaneswar, May 31: Orissa will soon have a state tobacco cell in co-ordination with the National Rural Health Mission to fight its war against the peril that comes packed with both forms of tobacco — smoking and chewing types.

While the cell will also work at district level to sensitise and create a sustained campaign against tobacco, every government department will also have a notified officer to facilitate the campaign against tobacco’s harmful effects.

Speaking at the World No Tobacco Day celebrations here today, health secretary Anu Garg said the campaign to make the capital tobacco-free did not mean that smoking can be totally banned, but under the Cigarette and Other Tobacco Products Act, use of tobacco would be banned at public places.

As World No Tobacco Day, 2010, has the theme “gender and tobacco, with an emphasis on marketing to women”, health minister Prasanna Acharya said with both society and low-income group women constituting more than 5 crore in India alone as smokers, there is a need to refrain them from the habit, as it might lead to low birth-weight babies, spontaneous abortion, more bleeding during pregnancy, retarded growth and collectively contributing more towards higher infant and maternal mortality rates.

“Bhubaneswar and Indore are currently under a Voluntary Health Association of India plan to become tobacco-free, ” said its director P.C. Bhatnagar, adding places like Jhunjunu in Rajasthan and Chandigarh had become tobacco-free. Also the entire district of Kottayam in Kerala had become a no-tobacco zone, he said.

“Sikkim has also shown interest in going the tobacco-free way, ” Bhatnagar said, adding the recent strategy adopted by the World Health Organisation was to make the people aware about the findings that would force people to quit smoking.

Scientific findings have identified more than 4, 000 chemical substances in tobacco from which 60 are technically known to cause cancer, Bhatnagar said, adding even now it had come to notice that these chemicals had the tendency to change genetic materials in human bodies. Not only due to a longer spell, but even with just three smoking experiences could have a role in changing the genetic material in a human body, he clarified. Justifying more taxes on tobacco products, he said the situation had become so alarming that a study under Global Youth Tobacco Survey had found that in India the age to start tobacco has come down to 10-13 years.

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