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Smokeless tobacco lobby resorting to
misleading advertisements
Thursday October 18, 2012 07:37:07 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The
smokeless tobacco industry has resorted to misleading
advertisements which undermine the ill effects of chewing Gutkha,
experts feel.
"The smokeless tobacco industry resorted to the level of giving
misleading advertisements to the print publications thereby
influencing the minds of the people," Executive Director at
Voluntary Health Association of India, Bhavna Mukhopadhyay, told
IANS on the sidelines of a conference Thursday.
"The Guthka (chewing tobacco) industry is trying to make a mockery
out of the ban issued by the government. These advertisements are
a misleading campaigns and the tobacco industry is just trying to
regain its profits," she added.
Amal Pusp, director at Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said:
"It is necessary for all states to abide by the central laws. All
information campaigns like these are going against the decisions
of the court.
"These advertisements are being repeatedly published. The
government is planning to take legal action against the
advertisers."
The Government of India had directed sixteen states/union
territories to ban the manufacturing, sale, distribution and
storage of Guthka and other products containing tobacco or
nicotine in 2011.
It also passed a law that every state government is supposed to
follow the directives of the government.
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