{"id":10016,"date":"2011-04-14T14:55:56","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T09:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=10016"},"modified":"2011-04-14T14:55:56","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T09:25:56","slug":"supreme-court-refuses-to-lift-ban-on-tobacco-sachets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/supreme-court-refuses-to-lift-ban-on-tobacco-sachets","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court refuses to lift ban on tobacco sachets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/SUPREME-COURT-OF-INDIA7.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10018\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/supreme-court-refuses-to-lift-ban-on-tobacco-sachets\/supreme-court-of-india-55\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/04\/SUPREME-COURT-OF-INDIA7.jpg?fit=291%2C173&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"291,173\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SUPREME COURT OF INDIA\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/04\/SUPREME-COURT-OF-INDIA7.jpg?fit=150%2C89&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/04\/SUPREME-COURT-OF-INDIA7.jpg?fit=291%2C173&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10018\" title=\"SUPREME COURT OF INDIA\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/SUPREME-COURT-OF-INDIA7.jpg?resize=291%2C173&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"291\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/04\/SUPREME-COURT-OF-INDIA7.jpg?w=291&amp;ssl=1 291w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/04\/SUPREME-COURT-OF-INDIA7.jpg?resize=150%2C89&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/><\/a>The Supreme Court Wednesday declined to lift a ban on the sale of tobacco products in plastic sachets and asked the central government to file its reply to petitions challenging the curbs.<\/p>\n<p>The petitions were filed by manufacturers of chewing tobacco challenging the rules banning the product&#8217;s sale in plastic sachets. The ban came into force March 1.<\/p>\n<p>An apex court bench of Justice G.S. Singhvi and Justice K.S. Panicker Radhakrishnan gave the government four weeks to file its reply.<\/p>\n<p>The court also gave four weeks to the manufacturers and NGOs to file their response to the government&#8217;s reply.<\/p>\n<p>The judges also allowed NGOs and manufacturers of chewing tobacco to join the case as parties.<\/p>\n<p>The court directed the government to make available to the parties within two weeks the copies of a report of the National Institute of Public Health (NIPH) of Feb 17 on use of tobacco.<\/p>\n<p>The NIPH conducted the study on the court&#8217;s direction and it indicated that &#8220;86 percent of oral cancer cases in the world occur in India and out of these 86 percent cases, in 90 percent cases chewing tobacco was the cause&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The report said that &#8220;24 percent of the school-going children are addicted to chewing gutka and pan masala&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The tobacco manufacturers in their petitions contended that the rules prohibiting the use of plastic sachets for packaging their products was arbitrary and discriminatory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court Wednesday declined to lift a ban on the sale of tobacco products in plastic sachets and asked the central government to file its reply to petitions challenging the curbs. 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