Illicit trade in 5 key industries reaches Rs 7.97 lakh crore, time to instil fear: Centre
Textiles and apparel alone had an illicit market size of Rs 4,03,915 crore in 2022-23, accounting for over 50 per cent of the total illicit market.
Textiles and apparel alone had an illicit market size of Rs 4,03,915 crore in 2022-23, accounting for over 50 per cent of the total illicit market.
Tobacco kills 13 lakh people every year in India, said Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Prataprao Jadhav on Tuesday.
Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Prataprao Jadhav on Tuesday said the development of the nation is closely linked to the health of its young population, and urged everyone to pledge to resist and quit tobacco.
The advisory was issued jointly by the secretaries of the Union Ministry of Education and the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
The order has been issued by the DM by virtue of powers vested under section 163 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.
Tobacco and cigarette manufacturer VST Industries registered a 22 per cent growth in sales and logged 15.4 per cent growth in net profit in the quarter ended September 30, 2022.
Tobacco use continues to be a major contributor to the global burden of disease, causing an estimated 12 per cent of deaths worldwide among people below 30 years of age.
Death of over 8 million people and widespread destruction of environment, through cultivation, production, distribution, consumption, and post-consumer waste, is a huge cost we are paying due to tobacco consumption, says World Health organization (WHO).
A significant raise in taxes and implementing the proposed amendments for a stricter anti-tobacco law, COTPA, are the way forward to curbing tobacco consumption.
The 17 years of working of COTPA was useful to a certain extent in defying the tobacco industry’s tactics to advertise and promote tobacco use in India. However, in spite of the Government’s best efforts to effectively enforce the law and civil society’s efforts to ensure that violations are adequately reported, the industry has been able to target, especially children, through their indirect promotion tactics.
