India's tobacco ban effective from October.(news room)

India's Union Health and Information & Broadcasting (I&B) Ministries have reached an agreement on a film and TV smoking and tobacco ban after a short political argument over who was supposed to consult whom before announcing the ban as well as some loud protests from the media industry.

This came after the announcement of a ban, some weeks earlier, on screening of tobacco products in movies and television serials from August 1. The ban, which had included establishing a government committee to weed out surrogate liquor and tobacco advertising, was soundly criticised by ...

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