Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act News

The new rules will come into effect following the end of 12 months from the date of commencement of specified health warning All tobacco products manufactured or imported or packaged on or after 1st December 2020 shall display Image -1 Those manufactured or imported or packaged on or after 1st December 2021 shall display Image-2, the ministry said

The Delhi Police is issuing challans directly for the first time under the COTPA which prohibits smoking in public places, sale of tobacco products to minors, and sale of tobacco products within 100 yards of educational institutions.

Nearly 22 per cent of television programmes in India depict tobacco use and 71 per cent of these were broadcast when children and adolescents may have been watching even as an estimated one million deaths in the country are linked to tobacco