Sale of all tobacco chewable products banned for a period on one year in Delhi

The Delhi government has taken a major step to ban for one year the sale, purchase and storage of all forms of chewable tobacco products like guktha, pan masala, khaini and zarda in the national capital. A notification to this effect has been issued by the Department of Food Safety. As per this notification - unpackaged products of chewable tobacco, too, are covered under the ambit of the ban.
This has been reported in ibnlive.com dated 15 April 2016.

Health department officials have indicated that a notification was issued by Delhi government in September, 2012, in pursuance of a series of directions from Supreme Court for a ban on 'gutkha' in the city. However, because the term 'gutkha' was used in that notification, the tobacco retailers found a way out by selling the individual components of 'gutkha' (betel nut and raw tobacco) in separate pouches. That has now been set right.
The health department has, as a result, introduced the new proposal for banning all raw chewable tobacco products in the city of Delhi.


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