HC reserves order in PIL for complete cigarette, tobacco ban
The Allahabad High Court, Lucknow Bench today reserved its order in the PIL filed by us asking for complete ban on manufacture, sale, import etc of cigarette and other tobacco products.
The bench consisting of Justice Imtiyaz Murtaza and Justice D K Upadhyaya heard the arguments presented by us as well as that of the Government of India's Additional Solicitor General K C Kaushik and finally reserved its order.
The PIL says that various international studies by World Health Organization and others have established beyond all doubt that these products cause cancer and other serious diseases and also reduce life expectancy by 10-12 years.
The Government of India also accepted these facts and passed the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003 where section 4 prohibits smoking in any public place and section 5 (1) prohibits advertisement of these products.
When the Government fully know the ill-effects of these products and asks each such product to have warning like "smoking kills' and 'smoking causes cancer', it does not seem proper to permit any kind of sale of these products which results in killing of citizen.
Hence, we prayed for complete ban on these products just like many narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances.
The Allahabad High Court, Lucknow Bench today reserved its order in the PIL filed by us asking for complete ban on manufacture, sale, import etc of cigarette and other tobacco products.
The bench consisting of Justice Imtiyaz Murtaza and Justice D K Upadhyaya heard the arguments presented by us as well as that of the Government of India's Additional Solicitor General K C Kaushik and finally reserved its order.
The PIL says that various international studies by World Health Organization and others have established beyond all doubt that these products cause cancer and other serious diseases and also reduce life expectancy by 10-12 years.
The Government of India also accepted these facts and passed the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003 where section 4 prohibits smoking in any public place and section 5 (1) prohibits advertisement of these products.
When the Government fully know the ill-effects of these products and asks each such product to have warning like "smoking kills' and 'smoking causes cancer', it does not seem proper to permit any kind of sale of these products which results in killing of citizen.
Hence, we prayed for complete ban on these products just like many narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances.
Copy of PIL-
Amitabh Thakur
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