date:Jul 20, 2012
eading youth towards addiction. The ban has been effected under the Food Safety Standards Act, 2006. The state of Maharashtra has imposed a similar ban recently.
Dhumal said that strict vigilance was being maintained on sale of tobacco products to children. He said that since the stockists in the state had urged the state government for granting some time to exhaust the stock available with them and accordingly keeping in view the interests of the retailers it had been decided to defer the ban