New Delhi: The Delhi government have imposed a ban on the production, storage, distribution and sale of “pan masala, gutkha and all forms of chewable tobacco for one year” in the capital.
According to the notification issued by the Department of Food Safety, the unpacked products of chewable tobacoo should also be banned.
“The manufacture, storage, distribution, or sale of tobacco which is either flavoured, scented or mixed… and whether going by the name or form of gutka, pan, masala, flavoured/scented tabacoo, kharra, or otherwise… whether packaged or unpackaged and/or sold as one product, or though packaged as separate products, sold or distributed in such manner so as to easily facilitate mixing by the consumer” is prohibited for a period of one year, the notification stated. The ban was enforced keeping in mind that the ‘item’ if consumes will endanger human health.
