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Yesterday I put up the thread about BJP not linking Smoking to Cancer. Bhakt of course jumped in to defend BJP and said BJP cigarettes don't cause cancer, omore people die of smoke created by AAP autos than cigarettes, cancer is scared of/cured by Modi etc. The rest of the world of course could not figure out the relationship between cigarettes and BJP. Therefore they reacted. (yeah Bhakt also said if you change title problem will fix itself)
Now waiting for Bhakt to ome in and whitewash the world!
BJP: Cigarettes don't cause Cancer
What's He Smoking? BJP Lawmaker's Stand on Cigarettes Triggers Strong Reactions
New Delhi: A BJP parliamentarian's declaration that India has little independent evidence to link cigarettes and cancer has stunned doctors, leaders from other parties and provoked a note of sharp dissent from his own.
DK Gandhi, who is from the ruling BJP and represents Maharashtra's Ahmednagar in the Lok Sabha, heads a parliamentary committee that's assessing a government proposal to dissuade smoking. Mr Gandhi told NDTV on Monday, "The verification that needs to be done, the research that needs to be conducted on this by the Indian government has not been done, on whether this causes cancer or not. We are a country of 125 crore people, of which four crore are dependent on this".
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"I am shocked, not alarmed with his statement," said opposition leader Supriya Sule, who also represents Maharashtra in Parliament. "He is misinformed about cancer, I will speak to him," she said. "Science is science, I disagree with him," said Minister Prakash Javadekar, contradicting his party's lawmaker.
The committee headed by Mr Gandhi has enabled a delay in tough new rules to check smoking by saying it needs more time to discuss a proposal that asked tobacco companies to stamp health warnings across 85 percent of the surface of cigarette packets. Last year, Health Minister JP Nadda had said the government wanted that rule to come into effect on April 1.
"This is just a front for the tobacco industry to my mind, because it is going to affect the profits of the tobacco industry somewhere," said Bhavna Mukhopadhyay, Executive Director of the Voluntary Health Association of India.
"In a country like ours, where a large section of the population cannot read or write and more users are coming on board, pictorial warnings are the need of the hour," she added.
In November, health campaigners had welcomed the government's plans to raise the age for tobacco purchases to 25 and ban unpackaged cigarette sales. No progress has been made in those initiatives, since the announcement was made.
Around 900,000 people die of tobacco-related illnesses in India each year, the second-highest number after China, and experts predict that could rise to 1.5 million by the end of the decade. (900,000 people dying of cancer in India is ok with BJP as long as big tobacco gives them money)
Now waiting for Bhakt to ome in and whitewash the world!
BJP: Cigarettes don't cause Cancer
What's He Smoking? BJP Lawmaker's Stand on Cigarettes Triggers Strong Reactions
New Delhi: A BJP parliamentarian's declaration that India has little independent evidence to link cigarettes and cancer has stunned doctors, leaders from other parties and provoked a note of sharp dissent from his own.
DK Gandhi, who is from the ruling BJP and represents Maharashtra's Ahmednagar in the Lok Sabha, heads a parliamentary committee that's assessing a government proposal to dissuade smoking. Mr Gandhi told NDTV on Monday, "The verification that needs to be done, the research that needs to be conducted on this by the Indian government has not been done, on whether this causes cancer or not. We are a country of 125 crore people, of which four crore are dependent on this".
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- No Indian Study Links Cigarettes With Cancer, Says BJP Chief of Parliamentary Committee
- Delhi Government to Ban All Forms of Chewable Tobacco from Monday
The committee headed by Mr Gandhi has enabled a delay in tough new rules to check smoking by saying it needs more time to discuss a proposal that asked tobacco companies to stamp health warnings across 85 percent of the surface of cigarette packets. Last year, Health Minister JP Nadda had said the government wanted that rule to come into effect on April 1.
"This is just a front for the tobacco industry to my mind, because it is going to affect the profits of the tobacco industry somewhere," said Bhavna Mukhopadhyay, Executive Director of the Voluntary Health Association of India.
"In a country like ours, where a large section of the population cannot read or write and more users are coming on board, pictorial warnings are the need of the hour," she added.
In November, health campaigners had welcomed the government's plans to raise the age for tobacco purchases to 25 and ban unpackaged cigarette sales. No progress has been made in those initiatives, since the announcement was made.
Around 900,000 people die of tobacco-related illnesses in India each year, the second-highest number after China, and experts predict that could rise to 1.5 million by the end of the decade. (900,000 people dying of cancer in India is ok with BJP as long as big tobacco gives them money)
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