date:Jul 25, 2019
3(j) of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006, therefore chewing tobacco is food. Many High Courts have considered chewing tobacco as food, e.g. Cr. Revision No. 318/1982, Manoharlal versus UP (Para Nos. 9 to 11); Bombay High Court in W.P. No. 1631/202; Dharival Industries Ltd versus State of Maharashtra (Para Nos. 21 to 23) and Supreme Court in R Krishna Murty versus Tamil Nadu 1980 (I) FAC: AIR 1980 SC,538.
Overwhelming scientific evidence shows that food products which have tobacco as the