tobacco

Data | Relatively fewer tobacco users in the southern States

The share of smokers is declining in India, but smokeless tobacco consumption continues unabated

Navneeta Nandan,Vignesh Radhakrishnan

Buoyant tobacco market brings cheer to farmers

Dakshina Kannada: Uppinangady Police seize 52 prohibited e-cigarettes, arrest shopkeeper

The Hindu Bureau

Tobacco growers look for better prices with bright-grade boom

T.N. Health Minister urges traders not to sell gutkha, pan masala

The Hindu Bureau

‘It is cause for concern that while most countries regularly increase taxes on tobacco products to make them less affordable, India has not done so’

Revisit the tax treatment of tobacco products

Concerted efforts needed to claim major share in world tobacco output, says Tobacco Board Director

Shopkeeper arrested, 417 kg of banned tobacco products seized in Madurovoyal

The condition of tobacco crop improves as farmers went for replantation or gap filling exercise after losing their crops to Cyclone Mandous. A view of tobacco crop at Medermetla near Ongole in Prakasam district.

Tobacco Board offers interest-free loan to farmers who lost their crops to Cyclone Mandous in Andhra Pradesh

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Over 1,000 kg of banned tobacco products seized in Tiruchi and Pudukottai districts

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Eking out a living: Women rolling beedis outside their houses at Dhuliyan municipality in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district, which is home to lakhs of beedi workers and is the hub of beedi making in the country.

Dusk descends on the beedi rollers of Murshidabad

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Tobacco valued at ₹6,880 crore exported in 2021-22 financial year

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Excessive rains and cyclones are adding to the miseries of small and marginal tobacco farmers in Andhra Pradesh.

Farmers’ associations urge Centre to maintain stable taxation on tobacco products

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In India, tax on cigarettes is 52.7%, ‘bidis’ 22% and chewing tobacco 63.8%. File

Economists bat for hike in tobacco taxation for achieving Modi’s $5 trillion economy vision

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Explained | The recommendation to ban the sale of single cigarettes

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The call follows review of 95 studies conducted on occupational health hazards of beedi workers in the country.

Researchers want beedi rolling declared hazardous process

The Hindu Bureau

The Central Hospital for beedi workers at Dhuliyan in West Bengal.

In India’s beedi hub of Murshidabad, exclusive hospital for workers of the industry lacks doctors and facilities

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Tobacco seedlings are much in demand for replantation as Cyclone Mandous destroyed plantations, at Velampalli village in Prakasam district. KOMMURI SRINIVAS

Cyclone Mandous, an year-end jolt for tobacco growers

Tobacco Board Executive Director A. Sridhar Babu during his visit to a rain-hit farm near Ongole on Thursday.

Tobacco Board’s intervention sought as Cyclone Mandous inflicts heavy crop loss

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Prakasam District Collector A.S. Dinesh Kumar inspecting an inundated field at Chekurupadu village near N.G. Padu in Prakasam district on Monday.

Farmers rue their fate as incessant rain submerges fields in South Coastal Andhra Pradesh

The police seized a bus and two cars along with the banned tobacco

Six held for possessing 423 kg of banned tobacco products near Madurai

The Hindu Bureau

Coimbatore city police seize 346 kg of gutkha, three held

Tobacco crop being cultivated at Chekurapadu village near N.G.Padu, in Prakasam district.

Tobacco turns farmers’ favourite in south coastal Andhra Pradesh, thanks to buoyant market