The pan-Maharashtra cancer specialists, called Maharashtra Cancer Warriors, have welcomed the steps taken by government to curb tobacco consumption that includes enforcing new pictorial warning on tobacco. In a letter to Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, the cancer surgeons have expressed their appreciation for the enforcement of section 7 of Cigarette and Other Tobacco Products Act (COTPA) for seizure of tobacco, worth Rs 300 crore.
Satish Sonawane, Co-Ordinator, Maharashtra Cancer Warriors said at least two crore people in Maharashtra are addicted to some form of tobacco that is causing epidemic proportion of fatal diseases such as heart attack and stroke apart from cancers. Mouth cancer is the commonest cancer in men in the state due to rampant chewing habit. Maharashtra was the first state to ban flavoured chewing tobacco and supari apart from gutkha. Read More>
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