tobacco is known to cause about 20 diseases No industry has done more chronic disease and death than the industry. To end the chronic disease epidemic, we must prevent kids from starting to use tobacco and help Tobacco Prevention Presentation Card |

9 October 1992

Union of India and Ors., recognized the harmful effects of smoking in public and also the effect on passive smokers, and in the absence of statutory provisions at that time, prohibited smoking in public places such as auditoriums, hospital buildings, health institutions, educational institutions, libraries, court buildings, public offices, public conveyances, including the railways

(Nicotine) literally alters the makeup of the brain as its developing, explained Chris Hollenback, the communications director for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention

DAN OAKES: Until last year in Victoria the penalty for illicit tobacco offences was less than fifty thousand dollars that's been significantly raised now but Pike says it's too little too late